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I Love The Winter Weather: Tony Bennett's "Snowfall" Is Remixed for October Release

August 3, 2021 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Tony Bennett Snowfall

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Today, Tony Bennett turns 95.  The artist - for whom the designation "legendary" isn't mere hyperbole - is scheduled to take the stage tonight at Radio City Music Hall with his friend and collaborator Lady Gaga for the first of two shows billed as One Last Time.  Bennett is currently battling Alzheimer's, and tickets for the pair of concerts sold out in moments.  An album (date TBA) with Gaga is forthcoming, but in the meantime, Legacy Recordings and Columbia Records have announced a new reissue of Bennett's 1968 Christmas album, Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album, due on October 1.

Produced by Jack Gold (Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand), Snowfall was recorded both in New York and London and showcased Bennett's supple pipes on both ballads (the Claude Thornhill-penned title track, the touching "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," and a majestic medley capped off with the dramatic "Where Is Love?" from the musical Oliver!) and swingers ("My Favorite Things," "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town," and playful melding of "I Love the Winter Weather" and "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm").  Bennett was joined in the studio by respected arranger-conductor Robert Farnon, the Canadian-born, London-based composer of numerous classics in the light music genre.  The multiple Ivor Novello Award winner also collaborated with such remarkable singers as Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, and Lena Horne.

Snowfall has been certified Platinum, and remains a perennial each holiday season.  It gained new life when a 1994 CD reissue added a live bonus track of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" from television's The Jon Stewart Show and new cover art of the older Tony.  A 2007 CD/DVD reissue appended video tracks from the 1992 special Tony Bennett: A Family Christmas.  Legacy's upcoming reissue eschews the CD format altogether in favor of vinyl and digital.  It further differentiates itself by restoring Bob Peak's original cover artwork, while Tony's son Dae Bennett has remixed the album from the original multitrack tapes.

This is the first vinyl presentation of Snowfall in the U.S. since 1968; it will be available on both standard black vinyl (from retailers everywhere) and a white variant (at Barnes and Noble only).  The sleeve will include images of Bennett's seasonal paintings.  Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album arrives from Columbia and Legacy on October 1.  Happy Birthday, Tony!

Tony Bennett, Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album (Columbia LP CS 9739, 2021 - reissued Columbia/Legacy, 2021)

Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
White Vinyl: Barnes and Noble

  1. Snowfall
  2. My Favorite Things
  3. The Christmas Song
  4. Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
  5. Medley: We Wish You A Merry Christmas / Silent Night, Holy Night / O Come, All Ye Faithful / Jingle Bells / Where Is Love
  6. Christmasland
  7. Medley: I Love The Winter Weather / I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
  8. White Christmas
  9. Winter Wonderland
  10. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Tony Bennett

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Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Paul M. Mock says

    August 3, 2021 at 2:52 pm

    This is a great Christmas album with Tony at his utmost peek vocally. Just an FYI, Tony also shared a Christmas CD with Placido Domingo, Charlotte Church & Vanessa Williams in 2000 on "Our Favorite Things". Plus a later reissue of his Columbia Christmas tunes titled "The Classic Christmas Album" included some tracks from "Snowfall" that were left off of the original release.

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    • Avatar photoJoe Marchese says

      August 3, 2021 at 3:11 pm

      I believe the one previously unreleased track on the CLASSIC CHRISTMAS ALBUM was an extended version of "What Child Is This" as first heard on the 1968 Goodyear GREAT SONGS OF CHRISTMAS LP. I'm not certain whether the Vienna Christmas album should be considered part of Tony's "core" Christmas catalog, but it's a most enjoyable listen, too. Thanks, Paul!

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  2. Kat says

    August 3, 2021 at 3:09 pm

    Tony’s son Dan Bennett has remixed the album from the original multitrack tapes?! That’s wonderful!

    However, why is this remix of such a classic album being released on LP Vinyl only?

    I’m not into vinyl…I would love to see it released on CD! Please!

    Thank you,

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    • Robert Lett says

      August 3, 2021 at 5:49 pm

      There is a CD version in the big complete Tony Bennett on Columbia box that sounds fine to my ears so I’ll pass on this. The box is expensive and out of print alas.

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  3. Kim Treible says

    August 3, 2021 at 3:10 pm

    Tony’s son Dan Bennett has remixed the album from the original multitrack tapes?! That’s wonderful!

    However, why is this remix of such a classic album being released on LP Vinyl only?

    I’m not into vinyl…I would love to see it released on CD! Please!

    Thank you,

    Reply
  4. Zubb says

    August 3, 2021 at 6:57 pm

    I was all excited for a holiday treat this year until I read this line... Legacy’s upcoming reissue eschews the CD format altogether in favor of vinyl and digital. I doing so, Sony/Legacy avoids my consumer $$$ as well. Vinyl and digital only simply won't do. I will just be content with my old CD copy,

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  5. RecordSteve says

    August 4, 2021 at 5:25 pm

    Ditto on "be content w/my old CD copy," but thanks Bro. Joe for keeping us in the link of new CHRISTmas 🎶

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  6. Bill says

    October 15, 2021 at 7:53 pm

    Where do we find the digital download version, and how can we tell it's the new mix and not the old one?

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