This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Swings for days. Strange you can't find it on iTunes. I wish they would remaster it but there's something keeping that from happening. Kenny Clare is an outstanding big band drummer, love this swing version of the tune. I got to play with Mr. Bennet with Kenny Clare, John Guifrida on bass and Torrie Zito on piano (I played guitar at 19 y/o). Greatest experience of my career. One night concert in San Antonio Texas 1973 with the North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band. It was filmed or taped I believe but lost forever or in a vault somewhere.
Souvenirs!!! Imperissable ...ma Suzy et moi avons danser sur cette formidable musique des centaine de fois!!! Un boogie endiable'!!! Cela se passait chez moustache ,
Best version of this great song. Tony can swing like nobody else and with the swinging big bands Count Basie Billy May Tony is one of the few greats left. He can still sing even he’s old . He can still belt it out live. I’m a huge fan and I get chills up and down my body when I hear Once Upon a Time. I love You sweet precious Jenn . I miss You every day. Come back to me my darling
Covid shit canceled his performance at St. George Theater on Staten Island ,NY. I had tickets. Figured what a way to remember him. My Dad ,Mom and Nana saw Tony Bennett at the Old Copa in City in February 1969.
My favorite Bennett song. I never get tired of it. And those who say that the tempo is 'too happy' or 'jazzy', really do not get the meaning of the lyrics. I have been at that end of it, laughing and carousing on the outside, screaming sadness and bleeding tears inside. But what else can you do at the end of a love affair...?
be sure to listen to the Great little herb version of this song from the album: Gloria Lynne live at the Las Vegas Thunderbird. My favorite! It was recorded in the early sixties at the now-defunct hotel and casino.
I'm with "those who say"... This is a heart-wrenching torch song, and rips at your gut when done agonizingly slow (I used to perform this one and could barely get through it without my voice cracking). It also has a lovely verse. But this happy-pappy swinging tempo and raucous arrangement makes it sound like a circus act.. Horrible. And the sad thing is, I usually love Bennett's treatments of tunes. He went south on this one, in my book. If I were the composer I'd be spinning in my grave...
First heard this tune on 960 KABL back in 1998 while speeding down I-580 in my early 1970's Chrysler. It took a few years before I was able to track down and locate the album it came from.
Tony's take -- with "Bob's Band." The next offering at UA-cam this night -- after Johnny Hartman's END OF A LOVE AFFAIR was this one -- Tony Bennett with Robert ("Great Songs from Great Britain") Farnon -- acknowledged as the "most influential arranger" by all the other great arrangers. Tony Bennett, when he appeared at hotels in Canada (for years he was on the supper club circuit) would often say: "You Canadians should erect a statue to Robert Farnon." During a visit to New York, that turned into a longer stay, Tony arranged for Robert Farnon to stay at a home next door to Tony's Mom. From an all-swing tunes album Tony recorded with Bob's Band -- London Symphony musicians who would assemble on a moment's notice for the man Frank called "The Guv'nor" -- exactly ten years after "Great Songs/Great Britain" was recorded. An informed note (just below the video) from a kindred musical spirit: Jeffrey Davang 4 years ago (edited) This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Swings for days. Strange you can't find it on iTunes. I wish they would remaster it but there's something keeping that from happening. Kenny Clare is an outstanding big band drummer, love this swing version of the tune. I got to play with Mr. Bennet with Kenny Clare, John Guifrida on bass and Torrie Zito on piano (I played guitar at 19 y/o). Greatest experience of my career. One night concert in San Antonio Texas 1973 with the North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band. It was filmed or taped I believe but lost forever or in a vault somewhere. [Thanks for posting, "EddysVault" and thanks Jeffrey Davang, for the informed note]
I like the faster tempo than is usually performed. as the lyrics say "I go at a maddening pace and I pretend its taking her place but what else can you do at the end of a love affair"
So I walked a little too fast And I drive a little too fast, And I'm reckless it's true, But what else can you do At the end of a love affair? So I talk a little too much, And I laugh a little too much, And my voice is too loud When I'm out in a crowd, So that people are apt to stare. Do they know, do they care, That it's only That I'm lonely, And low as can be, And the smile on my face Isn't really a smile at all. So I smoke a little too much, And I drink a little too much, And the tunes I request Are not always the best, But the ones where the trumpets blare So I go at a maddening pace, And I pretend that it's taking her place, But what else can you do at the end of a love affair? So I smoke a little too much, And I drink a little too much, And the tunes I request Are not always the best, But the ones where the trumpets blare So I go at a maddening pace, And I pretend that it's taking her place, But what else can you do at the end of a love affair?
OMG I just stumbled on this. As someone else below mentioned, I had never heard this album. It swings incredibly. Bennett and Kenny Clare kill. So joyful.
From Tony's 1972 LP 'The Good Things in Life' With an English band of top studio players including Don Lusher & Kenny Clare. And Tony's pianist, John Bunch.. Peter Robinson
So I walked a little too fast And I drive a little too fast, And I'm reckless it's true, But what else can you do At the end of a love affair? So I talk a little too much, And I laugh a little too much, And my voice is too loud When I'm out in a crowd, So that people are apt to stare. Do they know, do they care, That it's only That I'm lonely, And low as can be, And the smile on my face Isn't really a smile at all. So I smoke a little too much, And I drink a little too much, And the tunes I request Are not always the best, But the ones where the trumpets blare So I go at a maddening pace, And I pretend that it's taking her place, But what else can you do at the end of a love affair? So I smoke a little too much, And I drink a little too much, And the tunes I request Are not always the best, But the ones where the trumpets blare So I go at a maddening pace, And I pretend that it's taking her place, But what else can you do at the end of a love affair?
+Don Paul First, thanks for the upload, I didn't think there were any TB albums I didn't have let alone didn't know existed. This hails from the period when the geniuses at Columbia let Tony's contract run out because he refused to record the crap of the day. Can anyone imagine letting this guy go? As a result, he bounced around from one label to the next until his kids took charge which led back to Columbia and The Art of Excellence. All that because I noticed "Verve" on the cover. What I also noticed was Robert Farnon. He was British (someone mentioned that this was recorded over there) and he was regarded as one of the best arrangers, for strings in particular, in history. He did Tony's Christmas Album, Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain and many, many others. Mr. Zito was undoubtedly under contract with Columbia which forced Tony to look elsewhere. So, I guess you could say this wouldn't have happened had they not let him go. Maybe they were geniuses after all!
When I first put this up I listed Torrie Zito as the arranger. ( He did O Sole Mio, so I figured the swinging tunes were him, including 'End of a Love Affair' and 'London by night' . Robert Farnon was know as one the best string and orchestral arrangers in the world. Someone commented here that End of a Love Affair was a Farnon arrangement so I checked my vinyl and it says album arranged by Robert Farnon, ( O Sole Mio gets an asterisk which takes you to '*arranged by Torrie Zito') So I changed it to Robert Farnon There is a stylistic similarity to the three swing tunes which made me think they were all the same arranger but I think the 'similarity' is the drummer. As a big band drummer Kenny Clare was a phenomenon.
New York Times Obituaries Published: July 23, 1984 Edward C. (Bud) Redding, a composer and lyricist who wrote ''The End of a Love Affair,'' died July 19 of cancer in Mount Sinai Hospital. He was 68 years old and lived on Manhattan's West Side. Mr. Redding wrote for Julie Wilson, Jane Morgan, Martha Wright, Jane Pickens, Herb Shriner and others. He is survived by his sister, Ruth Willenbrink of Louisville, Ky.
If Billie Holiday's, Sinatra's or Nat Cole's are "down" versions, Tony's version doesn't conduct for a "suicide mood". It doesn't seem someone had his heart broken...
Great effort, but Billie Holliday and Julie London sang it the way it was meant to be sung. It's not a happy, happy, joy, joy song. It's a sad song. Sing it sad or don't sing it at all. Just sayin'........
This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Swings for days. Strange you can't find it on iTunes. I wish they would remaster it but there's something keeping that from happening. Kenny Clare is an outstanding big band drummer, love this swing version of the tune. I got to play with Mr. Bennet with Kenny Clare, John Guifrida on bass and Torrie Zito on piano (I played guitar at 19 y/o). Greatest experience of my career. One night concert in San Antonio Texas 1973 with the North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band. It was filmed or taped I believe but lost forever or in a vault somewhere.
I was friends with Torrie.
Nick Riggio
1 second ago
Tony swings on Facebook at: Friends of Tony Bennett
Torrie wrote the arrangement but that's John Bunch on pianio
Simply terrific, and I love how Torrie Zito gives the great Kenny Clare a free hand with some riffs and accents. One of my favorite orchestrations.
Souvenirs!!! Imperissable ...ma Suzy et moi avons danser sur cette formidable musique des centaine de fois!!! Un boogie endiable'!!! Cela se passait chez moustache ,
The piano solo in the middle of this tune, is one of the best I've ever heard on a jazz standard.
Best version of this great song. Tony can swing like nobody else and with the swinging big bands Count Basie Billy May Tony is one of the few greats left. He can still sing even he’s old . He can still belt it out live. I’m a huge fan and I get chills up and down my body when I hear Once Upon a Time.
I love You sweet precious Jenn .
I miss You every day. Come back to me my darling
Mr Bennett , great song , perfect version , best big band , piano solo.... so what? Always on my mind and heart
What a voice - fantastic!
One of Tony's very best , WOW
Tony Bennett's best album
Nick Riggio
1 second ago
Tony swings on Facebook at: Friends of Tony Bennett
By far the best version of this song by the great Tony Bennett (ballads don't convey the masking feeling of frustration in middle of the celebration)
This recording and the LPs w the late Bill Evans are without exception the greatest tracks Mr. Bennett ever recorded in his entire career.
Covid shit canceled his performance at St. George Theater on Staten Island ,NY. I had tickets. Figured what a way to remember him. My Dad ,Mom and Nana saw Tony Bennett at the Old Copa in City in February 1969.
I'm a huge Bennett fan but was totally unaware of this album. This track is fabulous and I thank you.
Nick Riggio
1 second ago
Tony swings on Facebook at: Friends of Tony Bennett
This really swings. Bennett and Farnon have quite a collaberation.
My favorite Bennett song. I never get tired of it.
And those who say that the tempo is 'too happy' or 'jazzy', really do not get the meaning of the lyrics.
I have been at that end of it, laughing and carousing on the outside, screaming sadness and bleeding tears inside.
But what else can you do at the end of a love affair...?
+Andrés Gaeris Someone else who knows the irony of this great upbeat version! Thanks.
be sure to listen to the Great little herb version of this song from the album: Gloria Lynne live at the Las Vegas Thunderbird. My favorite! It was recorded in the early sixties at the now-defunct hotel and casino.
Thx. Will do.
I'm with "those who say"... This is a heart-wrenching torch song, and rips at your gut when done agonizingly slow (I used to perform this one and could barely get through it without my voice cracking). It also has a lovely verse. But this happy-pappy swinging tempo and raucous arrangement makes it sound like a circus act.. Horrible. And the sad thing is, I usually love Bennett's treatments of tunes. He went south on this one, in my book. If I were the composer I'd be spinning in my grave...
I love it!
Great song.
the sheer ability of Tony to do this so phenomenally and so different from Julie and the others is what music is all about !! just sayin......LOL
Nick Riggio
4 months ago
On Facebook hear Tony sing at: Friends of Tony Bennett
OMG--one of the greatest arrangements and songs that I've ever heard!
Great rendition!
First heard this tune on 960 KABL back in 1998 while speeding down I-580 in my early 1970's Chrysler. It took a few years before I was able to track down and locate the album it came from.
Tony's take -- with "Bob's Band."
The next offering at UA-cam this night -- after Johnny Hartman's END OF A LOVE AFFAIR was this one -- Tony Bennett with Robert ("Great Songs from Great Britain") Farnon -- acknowledged as the "most influential arranger" by all the other great arrangers. Tony Bennett, when he appeared at hotels in Canada (for years he was on the supper club circuit) would often say: "You Canadians should erect a statue to Robert Farnon." During a visit to New York, that turned into a longer stay, Tony arranged for Robert Farnon to stay at a home next door to Tony's Mom.
From an all-swing tunes album Tony recorded with Bob's Band -- London Symphony musicians who would assemble on a moment's notice for the man Frank called "The Guv'nor" -- exactly ten years after "Great Songs/Great Britain" was recorded. An informed note (just below the video) from a kindred musical spirit:
Jeffrey Davang
4 years ago (edited)
This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Swings for days. Strange you can't find it on iTunes. I wish they would remaster it but there's something keeping that from happening. Kenny Clare is an outstanding big band drummer, love this swing version of the tune. I got to play with Mr. Bennet with Kenny Clare, John Guifrida on bass and Torrie Zito on piano (I played guitar at 19 y/o). Greatest experience of my career. One night concert in San Antonio Texas 1973 with the North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band. It was filmed or taped I believe but lost forever or in a vault somewhere.
[Thanks for posting, "EddysVault" and thanks Jeffrey Davang, for the informed note]
I like the faster tempo than is usually performed. as the lyrics say "I go at a maddening pace and I pretend its taking her place but what else can you do at the end of a love affair"
Nick Riggio
4 months ago
On Facebook hear Tony sing at: Friends of Tony Bennett
Nick Riggio
1 second ago
Tony swings on Facebook at: Friends of Tony Bennett
I've been looking for this. Thanks so much for posting it. The incomparable Tony Bennett
fantastic!
The incomparable Mr. Bennett, with Robert Farnon conducting The LSO. Folks, THIS is music ! -----------------------MJL, 77 y/o
Swing it man. The only way to go with this tune.IMHO.
or double time swing - dexter g.
It's a shame this album has never been released on cd.
Carlos, Tony's version is really about that awesome Torrie Zito orchestration.
So I walked a little too fast
And I drive a little too fast,
And I'm reckless it's true,
But what else can you do
At the end of a love affair?
So I talk a little too much,
And I laugh a little too much,
And my voice is too loud
When I'm out in a crowd,
So that people are apt to stare.
Do they know, do they care,
That it's only
That I'm lonely,
And low as can be,
And the smile on my face
Isn't really a smile at all.
So I smoke a little too much,
And I drink a little too much,
And the tunes I request
Are not always the best,
But the ones where the trumpets blare
So I go at a maddening pace,
And I pretend that it's taking her place,
But what else can you do at the end of a love affair?
So I smoke a little too much,
And I drink a little too much,
And the tunes I request
Are not always the best,
But the ones where the trumpets blare
So I go at a maddening pace,
And I pretend that it's taking her place,
But what else can you do at the end of a love affair?
The best of the best. I hate the slow versions I heard in the past from other singers! This song says it all. Tony is the best of the best.
Ungodly divine--as is the Farnon orchestral arrangement and performance!
Maravilloso tony bennet un placer poder escuchar su voz
OMG I just stumbled on this. As someone else below mentioned, I had never heard this album. It swings incredibly. Bennett and Kenny Clare kill. So joyful.
Please put out somewhere together with o soli. A big tony Bennett fan but I have never heard him swing like this amazing RIP Phil caggiano
Grande música cantada por muitos músicos americanos conhecidos. Envio para os amigos, para o clube de música e letritas
Un album fantastique....obligatoire dans sa discothèque si ont est un temps soit peu jazzi
gran versión, cover...
forever antonio benedetto! nyc fall of 1988 queens...
Torrie Zito wrote the arrangement but that's John Bunch on piano
Tony sings on Facebook at Friends of Tony Bennett
Nick Riggio
4 months ago
On Facebook hear Tony sing at: Friends of Tony Bennett
his version is great, but Johnny Hartman and Julie London did this song the best!
don't like this jazzy version!!!!! Frank,Julie London and Johnny Hartman "got" the seriousness of the song
Then dont listen to it. I love it!
Too upbeat for one of the saddest songs; and I'm a Tony Bennett fan. The first record I ever bought was a Tony Bennett recording back in 1954.
Know the song v ery well....don ' t like this upbeat British version....not the way it was intended..Julie London, Nat Cole the best!!!
don't like how upbeat a miserable song is. Leave it to Billie.
From Tony's 1972 LP 'The Good Things in Life' With an English band of top studio players
including Don Lusher & Kenny Clare. And Tony's pianist, John Bunch.. Peter Robinson
So I walked a little too fast
And I drive a little too fast,
And I'm reckless it's true,
But what else can you do
At the end of a love affair?
So I talk a little too much,
And I laugh a little too much,
And my voice is too loud
When I'm out in a crowd,
So that people are apt to stare.
Do they know, do they care,
That it's only
That I'm lonely,
And low as can be,
And the smile on my face
Isn't really a smile at all.
So I smoke a little too much,
And I drink a little too much,
And the tunes I request
Are not always the best,
But the ones where the trumpets blare
So I go at a maddening pace,
And I pretend that it's taking her place,
But what else can you do at the end of a love affair?
So I smoke a little too much,
And I drink a little too much,
And the tunes I request
Are not always the best,
But the ones where the trumpets blare
So I go at a maddening pace,
And I pretend that it's taking her place,
But what else can you do at the end of a love affair?
Love this song and Bennett's version is superb.
Great song....great singer....
Great performance all around from Tony, the orchestra, and arranger Torrie Zito!
+Don Paul First, thanks for the upload, I didn't think there were any TB albums I didn't have let alone didn't know existed. This hails from the period when the geniuses at Columbia let Tony's contract run out because he refused to record the crap of the day. Can anyone imagine letting this guy go? As a result, he bounced around from one label to the next until his kids took charge which led back to Columbia and The Art of Excellence. All that because I noticed "Verve" on the cover. What I also noticed was Robert Farnon. He was British (someone mentioned that this was recorded over there) and he was regarded as one of the best arrangers, for strings in particular, in history. He did Tony's Christmas Album, Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain and many, many others. Mr. Zito was undoubtedly under contract with Columbia which forced Tony to look elsewhere. So, I guess you could say this wouldn't have happened had they not let him go. Maybe they were geniuses after all!
Glad I found it too!
Fantastic!
Please will someone delete Nick Riggio, fifteen comments on one song is fourteen too much!!
Great song great singer wish I could get hold of the rcord
Nick Riggio
4 months ago
On Facebook hear Tony sing at: Friends of Tony Bennett
classe !
WHAT A SWINGING SONG!
The very best version of that marvellous song
Great performance of Mr. Bennett and a great big band arrangement of Torrie Zito
Bennett and Farnon swinging quite a collaberation.
Great track .
Great collaboration Bennett/Farnon
Torrie Zito is the arranger on this tune. I have the LP.
When I first put this up I listed Torrie Zito as the arranger. ( He did O Sole Mio, so I figured the swinging tunes were him, including 'End of a Love Affair' and 'London by night' . Robert Farnon was know as one the best string and orchestral arrangers in the world. Someone commented here that End of a Love Affair was a Farnon arrangement so I checked my vinyl and it says album arranged by Robert Farnon, ( O Sole Mio gets an asterisk which takes you to '*arranged by Torrie Zito') So I changed it to Robert Farnon
There is a stylistic similarity to the three swing tunes which made me think they were all the same arranger but I think the 'similarity' is the drummer. As a big band drummer Kenny Clare was a phenomenon.
Big band and bud . I love the swinging Tony Bennett. I roll me up a fat one and blaze this.
Too much orchestra.
Nick Riggio
4 months ago
On Facebook hear Tony sing at: Friends of Tony Bennett
Yes indeed It was written by Edward C. Redding in the early 50s maybe 1950.
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New York Times Obituaries
Published: July 23, 1984
Edward C. (Bud) Redding, a composer and lyricist who wrote ''The End of a Love Affair,'' died July 19 of cancer in Mount Sinai Hospital.
He was 68 years old and lived on Manhattan's West Side.
Mr. Redding wrote for Julie Wilson, Jane Morgan, Martha Wright, Jane Pickens, Herb Shriner and others.
He is survived by his sister, Ruth Willenbrink of Louisville, Ky.
If Billie Holiday's, Sinatra's or Nat Cole's are "down" versions, Tony's version doesn't conduct for a "suicide mood". It doesn't seem someone had his heart broken...
Tony's version is really about that awesome Torrie Zito orchestration.Pure Swing!!!
Great effort, but Billie Holliday and Julie London sang it the way it was meant to be sung. It's not a happy, happy, joy, joy song. It's a sad song. Sing it sad or don't sing it at all. Just sayin'........
I love Tony's version. Why do people come here to denigrate his music?