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I Wanna Be Around...
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 18, 1963 [1]
RecordedMarch 16, 1962-April 26, 1963
Studio CBS 30th Street Studio, New York
Genre Traditional pop, vocal jazz
Length27:21 original LP
44:39 CD reissue
Label Columbia
CL 2000
CS 8800
ProducerErnie Altschuler
Tony Bennett chronology
Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall
(1962)
I Wanna Be Around...
(1963)
This Is All I Ask
(1963)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic [2]

I Wanna Be Around... is a 1963 album by singer Tony Bennett.

Track listing

  1. " The Good Life" ( Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon) – 2:15
  2. "If I Love Again" (Jack Murray, Ben Oakland) – 3:19
  3. " I Wanna Be Around" ( Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstadt) – 2:11
  4. " I've Got Your Number" ( Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 1:45
  5. "Until I Met You" ( Freddie Green, Don Wolf) – 2:57
  6. " Let's Face the Music and Dance" ( Irving Berlin) – 2:52 (omitted on CD reissue)
  7. " Once Upon a Summertime" ( Eddie Barclay, Michel Legrand, Eddy Marnay, Mercer) – 2:00
  8. "If You Were Mine" ( Matty Malneck, Mercer) – 2:15
  9. "I Will Live My Life for You" ( Henri Salvador, Marcel Stellman) – 2:26
  10. "Someone to Love" ( Harry Warren) – 1:58
  11. "It Was Me" ( Gilbert Becaud, Norman Gimbel) – 3:04
  12. " Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)" ( Antônio Carlos Jobim, Gene Lees) – 3:16

Bonus tracks on CD reissue (all taken from the album "This Is All I Ask"):

  1. "Autumn in Rome" ( Sammy Cahn, Alessandro Cicognini, Paul Weston) – 2:15
  2. "The Way That I Feel" ( Harry Brooks) – 2:55
  3. "The Moment of Truth" (Tex Satterwhite, Frank Scott) – 2:14
  4. "Got Her Off My Hands (But Can't Get Her Off My Mind)" ( Sam M. Lewis, Flip Phillips, Joe Young) – 2:00
  5. "Long About Now" ( Fred Hellerman, Fran Minkoff) – 2:44
  6. " Young and Foolish" ( Albert Hague, Arnold B. Horwitt) – 3:22
  7. "Tricks" (Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes) – 1:48

Recorded March 16, 1962 (#5), October 19, 1962 (#2–4, 6–9), December 19, 1962 (#1, 10–11), April 22, 1963 (#12, 17), April 24, 1963 (#14–15), April 26, 1963 (#13, 16, 18)

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