Tony Bennett: The Playground

Tony Bennett: The Playground is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1998.

Tony Bennett: The Playground
Studio album by Tony Bennett
Released	September 29, 1998
Recorded	February–June 1998
Genre	Jazz
Label	Sony
Producer	Tony Bennett, Danny Bennett, Phil Ramone
Tony Bennett chronology
Tony Bennett on Holiday (1997) Tony Bennett: The Playground (1998) Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool (1999)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Los Angeles Times	favorable

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 Playground" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Bill Evans) – 3:36
2. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:37
3. "Dat Dere" (Oscar Brown Jr., Bobby Timmons) – 3:17
4. "Little Things" - Duet with Elmo (Joe Raposo) – 3:09
5. "Put On a Happy Face" - Duet with Rosie O'Donnell (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) (From the musical Bye Bye Birdie) – 3:01
6. "Because We're Kids" (Dr. Seuss, Frederick Hollander) – 3:25
7. "My Mom" (Walter Donaldson) – 4:38
8. "Swinging on a Star" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:04
9. "Bein' Green" - Duet with Kermit the Frog (Raposo) – 2:41
10. "Firefly" - Duet with Kermit the Frog (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 1:32
11. "When You Wish Upon a Star" (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington) – 2:58
12. "(It's Only) A Paper Moon" (Arlen, Yip Harburg, Billy Rose) – 2:49
13. "The Inchworm" (Frank Loesser) – 2:41
14. "The Bare Necessities" (Terry Gilkyson) – 2:09
15. "Make the World Your Own" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) – 3:48
16. "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn, Bronislaw Kaper) – 2:10
17. "It's Christmas in Herald Square" (Tony Tamburello/Joyce Vintaloro) – 3:25

Personnel

• Tony Bennett – vocals
• Ralph Sharon – piano
• Gray Sargent – guitar
• Paul Langosch – double bass
• Clayton Cameron – drums