Columbia Records took
Tony Bennett's recording of
the Beatles' "Something," which had appeared on the previous year's Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today! and had been a number 23 easy listening hit the previous spring, and put it at the top of his 1970 album, which otherwise was a collection arranged and conducted by
Peter Matz (who handled the early
Barbra Streisand albums) and produced by
Teo Macero (who handled jazz artists like
Miles Davis). While
Bennett still wasn't comfortable with songs like "The Long and Winding Road" and "Everybody's Talkin'," he did manage to place favorites like
Antonio Carlos Jobim ("Wave") on the song list, and
Matz's tasteful arrangements assured that this record wouldn't be the debacle Great Hits had been. Not that
Bennett was out of the woods yet. ~ William Ruhlmann