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Super Hot StamperBennett & Evans
The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album
(Item #: benneevans_1905_1908)
Our Price: $129.99
- An excellent original pressing of this classic collaboration. boasting outstanding Double Plus (A++) grades on both sides
- When heard on our better Hot Stamper pressings (like this one), the album clearly ranks near the top of the Greatest Male Vocal Recordings of All Time
- Waltz for Debby is the best thing here. Want to hear the Bennett-Evans Magic? Go right to that track
- 4 1/2 stars: "... one of the best albums of either's career... an excellent jazz-pop hybrid in which both musicians were shown off to advantage."
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Super Hot Stamper (Quiet Vinyl)Tony Bennett
I Left My Heart In San Fran
(Item #: benneileft_1911)
Our Price: $99.99
- This 360 copy of Tony Bennett's 1962 classic has outstanding sound, rating Double Plus (A++) or close to it on both sides - exceptionally quiet vinyl too
- Brilliant engineering by Frank Laico at his favorite recording digs (and ours), Columbia 30th Street studios
- 5 Stars and the winner of two Grammy Awards in 1962 including Record of the Year (not bad!)
- "From here on until the world changed again toward the late '60s, Bennett would not have to feel that he had to compromise his art for popularity, making up-tempo singles while longing to do ballads and swing material instead. I Left My Heart In San Francisco, a gold-selling Top Ten hit that stayed in the charts almost three years, demonstrated that he could have it all."
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Super Hot StamperTony Bennett
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
(Item #: benneileft_1909)
Our Price: $99.99
- This copy of Tony Bennett's 1962 classic has outstanding sound, rating of Double Plus (A++) or BETTER on both sides
- Tubey Magical like you will not believe - this killer copy is as about as huge and as real as it gets
- Brilliant engineering by Frank Laico at his favorite recording digs (and ours), Columbia 30th Street studios
- 5 Stars and the winner of two Grammy Awards in 1962 including Record of the Year (not bad!)
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Super Hot StamperTony Bennett
I've Gotta Be Me
(Item #: benneivego_1906_10)
Our Price: $89.99
- Outstanding Double Plus (A++) sound from start to finish for this Columbia 360 Stereo pressing - fairly quiet vinyl too
- Both sides here wonderfully rich, full-bodied, and as Tubey Magical as you would expect from Columbia in 1969
- Brilliant engineering by Frank Laico, the man who recorded I Left My Heart In San Francisco and Sketches of Spain, among others
- Tony Bennett was in fine form and still able to sing the hell out of these songs in 1969 - when you hear the quality of his voice on this very album you will perhaps appreciate the toll this century has taken on him
- Vintage record guys with top quality turntables - like us - get to hear Tony the way he should be heard, with his voice at the peak of its powers
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Super Hot StamperTony Bennett
I Wanna Be Around...
(Item #: benneiwann_1912)
Our Price: $79.99
- With two seriously good Double Plus (A++) sides, this was one of the better sounding copies we played in our recent shootout
- This is an excellent vintage 360 stereo pressing, with the all important midrange magic that’s surely missing from whatever 180g reissue has been made from the tapes (or, to be clear, a modern digital master copied from who-knows-what-tapes)
- "As the studio album followup to Tony Bennett's breakthrough record, I Left My Heart in San Francisco, I Wanna Be Around had a lot to live up to, but since San Francisco was a culmination of Bennett's development, and not a fluke, I Wanna Be Around turned out to be almost on a par with its predecessor... A worthy successor."
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Super Hot StamperTony Bennett & Count Basie
Strike Up The Band
(Item #: bennestrik_1812_1903)
Our Price: $74.99
- You'll find outstanding Double Plus (A++) sound on this Emus pressing of Count Basie and Tony Bennett's 1959 classic collaboration
- The originals we have played are uniformly horrible sounding compared to these wonderful reissues - the tonality here is Right On The Money
- 4 1/2 stars: "... the pairing between Bennett and Basie remains impressive. The band raves through tunes like "With Plenty Of Money And You," and Bennett matches them, drawing strength from the bravura arrangements, while band and singer achieve a knowing tenderness on "Growing Pains." This is an album well worth owning..."
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Hot StamperTony Bennett
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
(Item #: benneileft_1803_1811)
Our Price: $69.99
- This copy of Tony Bennett's 1962 classic earned very good Hot Stamper grades on both sides
- Amazing music, plus brilliant engineering by Frank Laico at his favorite studio (and ours), Columbia 30th Street studios
- This copy plays on relatively quiet vinyl too, Mint Minus to Mint Minus Minus throughout
- Allmusic 5 Stars and the winner of two Grammy Awards in 1962 including Record of the Year
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Super Hot StamperTony Bennett
For Once In My Life
(Item #: benneforon_1804_1904-)
Our Price: $69.99
- This vintage pressing gives Tony the sound he deserves, with excellent Double Plus (A++) grades on both of these early stereo sides
- Amazing vocal reproduction courtesy of the brilliant engineering of Frank Laico at his favorite studio (and ours), Columbia 30th Street studios
- We are not big soundstage guys here at Better Records, but we can't deny the appeal of the space to be found on a record as good as this
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Super Hot StamperTony Bennett
The Many Moods Of Tony
(Item #: bennemanym_1805_1905)
Our Price: $69.99
- Both sides of this vintage Black Print 360 pressing earned outstanding Double Plus (A++) grades for their superb sound - exceptionally quiet vinyl too
- Everything that's good about All Tube Vocal Recordings from the '50s and '60s is precisely what's good about the sound of this record
- "The moods vary from a wild Caravan, introduced with a drum solo by Chico Hamilton joined by flute and bass and seemingly held together by Tony's voice alone, to Don Costa's almost cinematic big orchestra styling of Spring in Manhattan as well as the lightly melancholy moods of When Joanna Loved Me and Don't Wait Too Long. Throughout the album, Tony's effortlessly soaring voice gives meaning to every number."
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