Employing
Sinatra arranger
Don Costa,
Tony Bennett put together a concept album similar to
Sinatra's
Come Fly with Me. Travel was the loose theme that united
Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Song of the Jet" (set in Rio de Janeiro, a photograph of which graces the album cover), "Fly Me to the Moon," and the title song, a
Leslie Bricusse-Cyril Ornadel tune from the show Pickwick that was
Bennett's latest hit single. There were also two songs from the
Richard Rodgers-
Stephen Sondheim musical Do I Hear a Waltz?, which was set in Venice. Other sections might not justify the flight theme --
Duke Ellington's "Love Scene" was given a "destination" of Harlem on the back cover, and that neighborhood is on no known flight plan -- but with such high-quality material, it was hard to complain. ~ William Ruhlmann