Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett, the awardee (or sometimes victim) of countless repackaging plans by Columbia executives throughout the ages, gets treated (or victimized) yet again with a massive box set, Classic Collection. This isn't a compilation of Bennett's career like previous ones, but a collection within a box set that includes a full dozen of Bennett's original studio albums from the '50s to the '90s, all of them remastered (several for the first time) and most of them featuring previously unreleased bonus tracks. The full list includes: Cloud 7 (1955), The Beat of My Heart (1957), Tony Sings for Two (1960), I Left My Heart in San Francisco (1962), I Wanna Be Around (1963), When Lights Are Low (1964), If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set (1965), The Movie Song Album (1966), The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album (1975), The Art of Excellence (1986), Perfectly Frank (1992), and MTV Unplugged (1994). Also included is The Singles Collection, a new compilation with 26 tracks extending from "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams" to "Something." ~ John Bush, All Music Guide