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What is this? Is that photo one of the performer?

Carver McCraver - Diggin' It Out!!!

What is this "2006 velvet box"?

Surely I have some 80+minute CDs that I have played but for whatever reason, both copies of this one returned the NO DISC error. It wouldn't even get started And my burning software would rip it just fine, but would not burn it to a single blank CR-R. Denied it totally. Are there different data points on a CD to designate total disc length? Or is it always the same field? I am perplexed...

2-3 seconds!

Some guy on Amazon posted their list of missing items. Stray Columbia tracks does indeed sum it up. Mostly... But the set does include both albums with Evans as released, all of the Improv albums l and all of the Verve albums. It's befuddling why/how such a massive effort was undertaken without getting it 100% right. Per that Amazon review" There is not much to add to the previous review in terms of praise for the content of this stunning box set. This is one of recorded music's greatest legacies in one convenient package. However, a star is knocked off as the title is misleading - this simply is NOT a complete collection. At least 57 (yes, that's FIFTY SEVEN) previously released recordings are missing from this set. These include the removal from history of some tracks that Tony Bennett has decided he doesn't want to be remembered for, single sides such as "Our Lady of Fatima" and "Madonna Madonna", while the album "The Good Things In Life" is missing one of its original tracks, "O Sole Mio", again removed at Mr Bennett's insistence. Does Mr Bennett really think that his legacy would have been damaged one jot by the inclusion of these admittedly less than stellar recordings? In addition while some previously released bonus cuts from the 2006 velvet box set are retained, others are missing; all three bonus cuts from "When The Lights Are Low" have been dropped. Other strangeness abounds with "Christmas In Hearld Square" turning up as an additional track on "The Playground" album instead of on one of the four Christmas albums included in the box. And so it continues. The end result being, that this collection is a half baked version of what it should have been, namely, a TRULY Complete Collection. Another three or four CDs could have easily collected together all of the missing tracks. Below is a list of what is not included in the box set and the original sources of the missing tracks (credit to Simon Morely): # / TITLE / REC DATE / PREVIOUSLY AVAILABLE SOURCE 1 Let's Make Love 17-Apr-50 VINYL 2 Our Lady of Fatima 14-Jul-50 PROPERBOX 121 CD 3 Kiss You 23-Aug-50 PROPERBOX 121 CD 4 Beautiful Madness 17-Jan-51 PROPERBOX 121 CD 5 Madonna, Madonna 11-May-54 PROPERBOX 121 CD 6 Friend's Blues (Ralph Sharon; Tony only scat sings) 3-Jun-58 VINYL (also on an expensive Japanese CD) 7 How Long Has This Been Going On? 26-Feb-64 VELVET BOX CD OF WHEN LIGHTS ARE LOW (SONY 69699 85807 2) 8 All Of You 26-Feb-64 VELVET BOX CD OF WHEN LIGHTS ARE LOW (SONY 69699 85807 2) 9 We'll Be Together Again 26-Feb-64 VELVET BOX CD OF WHEN LIGHTS ARE LOW (SONY 69699 85807 2) 10 You Can't Love `Em All 26-Feb-64 GREAT AMERICAN COMPOSERS: VAN HEUSEN CD (COLUMBIA 2CS2 8164 11 What Child Is This 1-Sep-67 NEW CD CLASSIC CHRISTMAS COLLECTION (SONY) 12 I, Yes Me, That's Who! 20-Jan-70 GREAT AMERICAN COMPOSERS: SAMMY CAHN CD (COLUMBIA 2CS2 8165 13 Fred 25-Jan-71 GREAT AMERICAN COMPOSERS: SAMMY CAHN CD (COLUMBIA 2CS2 8165 14 All That Love Went To Waste (Phillips) Nov 1973 VINYL 15 Some of these Days (Phillips) Nov 1973 VINYL 16 I'm Just A Lucky So and So (Concord Records) 15-Apr-77 TRIBUTE TO DUKE CD (CONCORD CCD-4050) 17 Prelude to a Kiss (Concord Records) 15-Apr-77 TRIBUTE TO DUKE CD (CONCORD CCD-4050) 18 Capitol City (from SIMPSONS CD) Nov 1990 SONGS IN THE KEY OF SPRINGFIELD CD (Rhino CD: 8122-72723-2 ) 19 I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart May 1999 HOT & COOL BONUS CD (CSK 46304) 20 Something To Live For May 1999 HOT & COOL BONUS CD (CSK 46304) 21 Love Me Tender 1994 ELVIS, IT'S NOW OR NEVER (MERCURY CD) 22 Young at Heart - duet with Shawn Colvin 1994 IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU SOUNDTRACK CD (COLUMBIA CK 66184) 23 Always 1994 IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU SOUNDTRACK CD (COLUMBIA CK 66184) 24 What a Difference a Day Made 1996 ONE FINE DAY SOUNDTRACK CD (COLUMBIA CD CK 67916) 25 I Get Along Without You Very Well Sep 2001 STARDUST CD (BLUE NOTE) 26 If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow 2002 DIVINE SECRETS OF YA-YA SISTERHOOD soundtrack (COLUMBIA CD: 5089592) 27 Colors of My Life 2002 IT STARTED WITH A SONG (CY COLEMAN CD Sony Music CD: SK 89138) 28 I Can't Get Started (with Doc Severinson Band) 1991 ONCE MORE WITH FEELING, DOC SEVERINSON (AMHERST CD) 29. O Sole Mio 9/11/72 from GOOD THINGS IN LIFE (Curb CD: D2-77447 -- BEST OF TONY BENNETT) 30. Lovers After All rec. 2004 recorded for ART OF ROMANCE, issued on Sony Music CD: 5187092000 -- The Art Of Romance [Import version] 31. The Lady Sings The Blues - 1977 from Jazz Arc LP 12': 19795 -- The Songs Of Alec Wilder VINYL 32. Jingle Bells (2008) (Bloomingdale's Exclusive Version), ALSO ON JAPANESE VERSION OF CD SWINGIN' CHRISTMAS 33. Christmas In Herald Square (1995 Version/ different arrangement) (released on Christmas With The Stars Columbia CD originally sold through Avon) 34. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (2001) Soundtrack CD: Rudolph & The Island of Misfit Toys 35. Sing You Sinners (rec. 7/20/50) new box lists this recording as being on disc #3, track #5. However, it is really the 12/15/55 recording, which is repeated again on the new box as disc #6, track #8. Original 1950 version is available on PROPERBOX 121 CD 36. Christmas Song (1992) with Manhattan Transfer from MANHATTAN TRANSFER A CHRISTMAS ALBUM (Sony CD 0074645296821) 37. If I Could Go Back (rec. 9/20/72) for LISTEN EASY, only source is original vinyl MISSING DUETS 1. The Lady Is A Tramp (1987) -with Frank Sinatra *A bonus live duet from Bally's that was issued by Columbia on the Target-exclusive edition of the first Bennett Duets CD. 2. I Left My Heart In San Francisco-with Judy Garland *A bonus live duet from Judy's TV show that was issued by Columbia on the Target-exclusive edition of the first Bennett Duets CD. 3. Steppin' Out (duet with Delta Goodrum) rec. 2/2006 and released on Australian CD version of DUETS) 4. If I Ruled the World (duet with Wang Hom Lee) rec 2006 and released on Singapore version of DUETS) 5. "I've Got the World on a String" (2006)- duet with Diana Krall was issued by Columbia on the Target-exclusive edition of the first Bennett Duets CD 6. "Steppin' Out with My Baby" - (2006) duet with Michael Bublé was issued by Columbia on the Target-exclusive edition of the first Bennett Duets CD 7. When You Wish Upon A Star-with Jackie Evancho (Target exclusive from Duets II) 8. They Can't Take That Away From Me-with Brad Paisley (Target exclusive from Duets II) 9. New York, New York (2011) live duet with Andrea Bocelli from Bocelli's CONCERTO, ONE NIGHT IN CENTRAL PARK CD, issued on Decca/Universal 10. New York State of Mind (2008) live duet with Billy Joel from Joel's LIVE AT SHEA STADIUM, Sony Columbia/Legacy CD 88697 85424 2 MISSING ALTERNATE TAKES 1. The Man That Got Away rec. 1959 from SINGS FOR TWO, alt issued on the FORTY YEARS: ARTISTRY box set 2. Everybody Has The Blues, 3. How Do you Keep The Music Playing 4. The Day You Leave Me #2-4 recorded for THE ART OF EXCELLENCE (1986) all alternate takes issued on the "Velvet Box" COLLECTION version of that album in 2006 5. A Child Is Born (take #2) 6. You Don't Know What Love Is (take #16) 7. Maybe September (take #8) 8. You Must Believe In Spring (take #1) 9. Who Can I Turn To (take #6) #5-9 alternate takes from second Bill Evans album, TOGETHER AGAIN, issued on CD COMPLETE BILL EVANS RECORDINGS (Concord FAN-31281) 10. The Rules of the Road with Ralph Sharon Trio, alternate take rec. February 26, 1964, different from version finally issued on WHEN LIGHTS ARE LOW, alt take can be found on ESSENTIAL TONY BENNETT CD Columbia/Legacy 86634

Leave it to Arte Moreno to get nothing for something?

I was surprised.

Nope! https://www.discogs.com/release/10164486-Tony-Bennett-The-Complete-Collection

The replacement arrived today(!) - and it didn't play either. NO DISC my player says. But pop it in the PC and it loads and plays, no problem. So I go to rip and burn to a CD-R and guess what - the impulse! CD has a total time of 80:02. Juat enough to jinx my older player and my burning software, which if it has an overburning setting, I can't find it right now. But ok, 2 CD-Rs works. A country boy can survive. Still, they couldn't find 2-3 seconds to trim? Seriously?

How's he doing these days? Well, I hope?

No, Columbia!!!!!!!! They did a superduperdeluxe boxset that included ALL of his records up to that time, including Improv, Fantasy and Verve. What got me to thinking was when I saw a TV commercial in Las Vegas for the Las Vegas Jazz Society with Bennett singing live with his band - which included Harold Land! So, you know, Harold Land, right? That opened me up to the possibility that, ok, Tony Bennett, maybe? Sure, it was a gig, but still...Harold Land!!!! But it was really once I started listening to arrangers that my ears opened up. Bennett had some really good ones when he wasn't belting them out for the cheap seats, and he sang inside them just dandily. My favorite writers are Marion Evans and Torrie Zito. Oddly, as much as I like Robert Farnon, not much of his work with Bennett really hits the spot, although that live in London date is in the professional pocket. It was just within the last year or so that I really was able to sort it all out. I'm not enough of a fan to go all gimmegimmegimme with the records, but Spotify has almost all of them, s it was real easy to play them one at a time, do the online research, and figure out what was what. And a gem is a gem, period: A James Moody tune!

Thanks. I do not know Bobby Hamilton, but the other two are solid.

Ok. I get returning the favor. But now that the favor has been returned, let's call it Game Over. And as such, any further such brushback posts will be deleted, in whole, and with no further explanation. Now, play nice.

Who's she got with her?

Reverse for me. Tony Bennett was "square" to me up until somewhere in the early 80s. He was never my favorite, but I did come to like a lot of his records. Spotify has been a blessing in this regard! He also got better with age, I think, as he ditched the Vegas-y elements of his singing, which never sounded comfortable to/for me anyway. So a long life, more than a little adventure, and a sustained win at the end. RIP

Pretty easy actually First you request either a refund or an exchange. I went for the exchange, of course. Then they send you a scannable QR code, which you then take with the item to a designated dropoff point. I chose Kohl's because it was just up the street. Whole Foods and UPS store were also options, but the latter wanted a buck for the service. Kohl's scanned the code off my phone and then took it from there. Packaging, mailing, tracking, everything I also got a shipping notice for the replacement item before I even left for Kohl's! You have a 30 day return window too. And there's no phone calls or anything.

Tilson Tomatious - Slow Grabbin'

Amazon sent me a CD that had no music on the CD. Nothing. So I sent it back for an exchange But that was weird. How did that happen?

Welcome back!?!?

There for quite a while(?) their LPs were that cheap injection plastic. Brittle, fragile, and easily noisy. So maybe there's that, a survival rate thing. And considering all the hits they were having on the really commercial stuff, maybe they just didn't press that many for the other things.