Hometown, My Town

Hometown, My Town is an album by American singer Tony Bennett. It was originally recorded in 1958 and released in 1959 on Columbia as CL 1301.

Hometown, My Town
Studio album by Tony Bennett
Released	July 1959
Recorded	November 3–4 and 6, 1958
Studio	CBS 30th Street (New York City)
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	27:13
Label	Columbia CL 1301 CS 8107
Producer	Mitch Miller
Tony Bennett chronology
Strike Up the Band (1959) Hometown, My Town (1959) To My Wonderful One (1960)

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Sony Music Distribution included this CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection, which contains fifty-eight of his studio albums, 4 compilation, three DVDs, six volumes of Bennett’s non-album singles, a previously unreleased CD of his Las Vegas debut from 1964, and two discs of rarities, including Bennett’s first recording, an Army V-Disc of “St. James Infirmary Blues, and was released on November 8, 2011.

Track listing

1. "The Skyscraper Blues" (Jenkins, Adair) – 7:08
2. "Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)" (Will Jason, Val Burton) – 6:17
3. "By Myself" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) – 2:54
4. "I Cover the Waterfront" (Green, Heyman) – 4:58
5. "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:21
6. "The Party's Over" (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 3:35

Recorded on November 3 (#1, 3), November 4 (#4–6) and November 6 (#2), 1958.

Personnel

• Tony Bennett – vocals
• Ralph Burns – arranger & conductor
• Ralph Sharon – piano
• Ed Caine, Walt Levinsky (#1, 3), J. Palmer, Romeo Penque, A. Epstein (#2) – reeds
• Al Cohn – tenor saxophone (#4–6)
• Danny Bank – baritone saxophone
• Al De Risi, Bernie Glow (#1–3), James Maxwell (#2, 4–6), Marky Markowitz, Carl Poole (#4–6) – trumpet
• Billy Byers, Urbie Green (#1–3), William Elton (#2, 4–6), Chauncey Welsch (#1, 3–6) – trombone
• Toots Mondello – alto saxophone, clarinet (#2, 4–6)
• Al Caiola (#1, 3), Barry Galbraith (#2, 4–6)- guitar
• Janet Putman – harp
• Pat Merola (#1, 3), Milt Hinton (#2, 4–6) – bass
• Eddie Costa – percussion (#2, 4–6)
• Terry Snyder – drums (#1, 3)
• Don Lamond – drums (#2, 4–6), percussion (#1, 3)
• Robert Abernathy (#2, 4–6), Ranier C. De Intinis (#4–6), Joseph Singer (#4–6), Ray Alonge (#2), Richard L. Berg (#2) – unspecified instruments

Strings

• Seymour Barab, Burt Fisch, Harold Colletta (#2, 4–6), Lucien Schmidt (#4–6), Howard Kay, Harvey Shapiro, Alan Shulman, Isadore Zirr – violoncello, viola
• Arnold Eidus, Julius Held, Max Hollander, Harry Lookofsky (#4–6), Harry Edison (#4–6, Leo Kruczek, Tosha Samoroff, H. Urbont, Maurice Wilk, Paul Winter, David Nadien (#2), Fred Buldrini (#2) – violin