Playground

Tony Bennett
Label: Sony
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Audio CD
Release date:29th September 1998

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Track Listing

1. Playground
2. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
3. Dat Dere
4. Little Things
5. Put on a Happy Face
6. Because We're Kids
7. My Mom
8. Swinging on a Star
9. Bein' Green
10. Firefly
11. When You Wish upon a Star
12. It's Only a Paper Moon
13. The Inchworm
14. The Bare Necessities
15. Make the World Your Own
16. All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
17. It's Christmas In Herald Square [*]

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Tony Bennett's career was revitalized in the 1990s when a whole new generation was exposed to him via his turn on MTV Unplugged. But he spent most of the decade recording albums on which he demonstrated his love for Frank Sinatra (Perfectly Frank), Billie Holiday (Here's to the Ladies), Count Basie (Basie Swings, Bennett Sings), and, on The Playground, children. That he succeeds here--elegantly, as always--is due as much to his classic style as to the way he refuses to sing down to the intended audience. Even his kid-friendly duets with Kermit the Frog, Elmo, and Rosie O'Donnell are handled with dignity, though a few songs--including "My Mom" and "Being Green," with Kermit--are paced so leisurely that some children's attention may wander. They're well made up for with the bouncy, invigorating "Firefly" (also with Kermit), "The Bare Necessities," and the rest of the sing-along encouraging songs. --Randy Silver