Cloud 7

Cloud 7
Studio album by Tony Bennett
Released	February 25, 1955[1]
Recorded	August 6 & December 22, 1954
Genre	Jazz
Length	33:05
Label	Columbia CL 621
Producer	Mitch Miller
Tony Bennett chronology
Because of You (1952) Cloud 7 (1955) Alone at Last With Tony Bennett (1955)

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Cloud 7 is a 1955 album by Tony Bennett. It was Bennett's first studio album and was issued in both 10" and 12" formats, in the USA as Columbia CL621 and in the UK as Philips BBR8089 - which excluded the track "My Reverie". The material featured the Great American Songbook and presented Bennett in a new way different from his hit parade orientated material of the early nineteen-fifties using a combo of jazz musicians. The album was arranged by the featured guitarist Chuck Wayne and the trumpeter Charles Panely and was recorded between August and December 1954, It was re-issued on Columbia CD 85806-2 in 2004 although it had an earlier Japanese release in 1994. It is disc number 9 of the Complete Tony Bennett Collection issued in 2011.

Track listing

Side one

1. "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (Cahn, Styne) - 2:50
2. "My Baby Just Cares for Me" (Donaldson, Kahn) - 2:21
3. "My Heart Tells Me" (Should I Believe My Heart?) (Gordon, Warren) - 4:54
4. "Old Devil Moon" (Harburg, Lane) - 2:55
5. "Love Letters" (Heyman, Young) - 2:33

Side two

6. "My Reverie" (Clinton, Debussy) - 2:17
7. "Give Me the Simple Life" (Bloom, Ruby) - 4:13
8. "While the Music Plays On" (Mills, Lupin Fein, Emery Heim) - 4:35
9. "I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me" (Clarence Gaskill, McHugh) - 3:09
10. "Darn That Dream" (DeLange, Van Heusen) - 3:18

Personnel

• Tony Bennett – vocals, liner notes
• Al Cohn (tracks 1 & 4) or Caesar DiMauro – saxophone (tenor)
• Dave Schildkraut – saxophone (alto)
• Charles Panely – trumpet, arranger
• Gene DiNovi (tracks 1 & 4) or Harvey Leonard – piano
• Chuck Wayne – guitar, arranger
• Clyde Lombardi – bass
• Sonny Igoe (tracks 1 & 4) or Ed Shaughnessy – drums

CD additional personnel

• Danny Bennett – executive producer
• Steven Berkowitz – executive producer, A&R
• Stacey Boyle – tape research
• Lisa Buckler – project director
• Didier C. Deutsch – reissue producer
• Patti Matheny – artist coordination
• Darcy Proper – reissue producer, mastering
• Darren Salmieri – artist coordination
• Jonathan Schwartz – liner notes

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