I Wanna Be Around... is a 1963 album by singer Tony Bennett.

I Wanna Be Around...
Studio album by Tony Bennett
Released	February 18, 1963[1]
Recorded	March 16, 1962-April 26, 1963
Studio	CBS 30th Street Studio, New York
Genre	Traditional pop, vocal jazz
Length	27:21 original LP 44:39 CD reissue
Label	Columbia CL 2000 CS 8800
Producer	Ernest Altschuler
Tony Bennett chronology
Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall (1962) I Wanna Be Around... (1963) This Is All I Ask (1963)

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Review scores
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Track listing

1. "The Good Life" (Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon) – 2:15
2. "If I Love Again" (Jack Murray, Ben Oakland) – 3:19
3. "I Wanna Be Around" (Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstadt) – 2:11
4. "I've Got Your Number" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 1:45
5. "Until I Met You" (Freddie Green, Don Wolf) – 2:57
6. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin) – 2:52 (omitted on CD reissue)
7. "Once Upon a Summertime" (Eddie Barclay, Michel Legrand, Eddy Marnay, Mercer) – 2:00
8. "If You Were Mine" (Matty Malneck, Mercer) – 2:15
9. "I Will Live My Life for You" (Henri Salvador, Marcel Stellman) – 2:26
10. "Someone to Love" (Harry Warren) – 1:58
11. "It Was Me" (Gilbert Becaud, Norman Gimbel) – 3:04
12. "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Gene Lees) – 3:16

Bonus tracks on CD reissue (all taken from the album "This Is All I Ask"):

12. "Autumn in Rome" (Sammy Cahn, Alessandro Cicognini, Paul Weston) – 2:15
13. "The Way That I Feel" (Harry Brooks) – 2:55
14. "The Moment of Truth" (Tex Satterwhite, Frank Scott) – 2:14
15. "Got Her Off My Hands (But Can't Get Her Off My Mind)" (Sam M. Lewis, Flip Phillips, Joe Young) – 2:00
16. "Long About Now" (Fred Hellerman, Fran Minkoff) – 2:44
17. "Young and Foolish" (Albert Hague, Arnold B. Horwitt) – 3:22
18. "Tricks" (Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes) – 1:48

Recorded March 16, 1962 (#5), October 19, 1962 (#2–4, 6–9), December 19, 1962 (#1, 10–11), April 22, 1963 (#12, 17), April 24, 1963 (#14–15), April 26, 1963 (#13, 16, 18)

Personnel

• Tony Bennett – vocals
• Ralph Sharon – piano
• Ralph Burns – arranger
• Marty Manning – arranger, conductor
• Carlos Lyra - guitar (#11)

References