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{{Infobox Album |album
|Name name = Strike Up the Band
|Type type = studio
|Artist artist = [[Tony Bennett]] and the [[Count Basie Orchestra]]
|Cover cover = Basie_Swings_Bennett_Sings2.jpg
|Released alt = 1959 =
| released = May 1959<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ciEEAAAAMBAJ&q=bennett+basie&pg=PA95 ''Billboard'' May 4, 1959]</ref>
|Recorded = January 3 & 5, 1959<br><small>[[Capitol Studios]], [[New York City]]▼
|Genre recorded = January 3 =& 5, [[Vocal1959 jazz]]
|Length venue = 27:01=
▲|Recorded studio = January 3 & 5,= 1959<br><small>[[Capitol Studios|Capitol]], ([[New York City|New York]])
|Label = [[Roulette Records|Roulette]]<br><small>SR-25072<br>SR-25231▼
|Producer genre = [[Vocal jazz]]
| length = 27:01
|Last album = '' [[Long Ago and Far Away (Tony Bennett album)|Long Ago and Far Away]] ''<br />(1958)
▲|Label label = [[Roulette Records|Roulette]]<br><small>SR-25072<br>SR-25231</small>
|This album = '''''Strike Up the Band'''''<br />(1959)
|Next albumproducer = '' [[InTeddy Person!Reig]] ''<br />(1959)
| chronology = [[Tony Bennett]]
| prev_title = [[In Person!]]
| prev_year = 1959
| next_title = [[Hometown, My Town]]
| next_year = 1959
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = [[Count Basie Orchestra]]
| type = album
| prev_title = [[In Person!]]
| prev_year = 1959
| title = Strike Up the Band
| year = 1959
| next_title = [[Breakfast Dance and Barbecue]]
| next_year = 1959
}}▼
{{Extra album cover
|Upper captionheader = Alternative cover
|Type type = Album
|Cover cover = Basie_Swings_Bennett_Sings.jpg
| border =
|Lower caption = '''Basie Swings, Bennett Sings (SR-25072)'''▼
| alt =
▲ }}
▲ |Lower caption = '''Basie Swings, Bennett Sings (SR-25072)'''
}}
}}
 
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = ''[[Allmusic]]''
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{AllmusicAllMusic|class=album|id=r441002}}</ref>
}}
 
'''''Strike Up the Band''''' is a 1959 studio album by [[Tony Bennett]] with the [[Count Basie Orchestra]] and his Orchestra. The album was released at first with the title '''''Basie Swings, Bennett Sings''''' as SR-25072, featuring a different cover and track order.
 
William Ruhlmann of Allmusic wrote "The band raves through tunes like "With Plenty Ofof Money Andand You," and Bennett matches them, drawing strength from the bravura arrangements, while band and singer achieve a knowing tenderness on "Growing Pains.""<ref>{{AllmusicAllMusic|class=album|id=r161004|label=Bennett & Basie Strike Up the Band}}</ref>
 
Bennett and Basie recorded two albums together in 1959. The other one, ''[[In Person!]]'', was released by Bennett's record label, [[Columbia Records|Columbia]], while this album was released by Roulette, Basie's label.
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==Track listing==
;Side one
#"[[Strike Up the Band (song)|Strike Up the Band]]" ([[George Gershwin|Gershwin]], [[Ira Gershwin|Gershwin]]) -– 1:33
#"[[I Guess I'll Have to Change My PlansPlan]]" ([[Howard Dietz]], [[Arthur Schwartz]]) -– 1:44
#"[[Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)|Chicago]]" ([[Fred Fisher]]) -– 2:07
#"With Plenty of Money and You" ([[Al Dubin|Dubin]], [[Harry Warren]]) -– 1:33
#"[[Anything Goes (Cole Porter song)|Anything Goes]]" ([[Cole Porter|Porter]]) -– 2:20
#"Life Is a Song" ([[Fred E. Ahlert]], [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]]) -– 2:49
 
;Side two
#"[[I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face]]" ([[Alan Jay Lerner|Lerner]], [[Frederick Loewe|Loewe]]) -– 3:02
#"[[Jeepers Creepers (song)|Jeepers Creepers]]" ([[Johnny Mercer|Mercer]], [[Harry Warren|Warren]]) -– 2:08
#"Growing Pains" ([[Dorothy Fields]], Schwartz) -– 3:33
#"Poor Little Rich Girl" ([[Noël Coward|Coward]]) -– 3:30
#"[[Are You Havin' Any Fun?]]" ([[Sammy Fain]], [[Jack Yellen]]) -– 2:42
 
''The 1990 compact disc reissue included the ballad "After Supper"''
 
==Personnel==
*[[Tony Bennett]] -– vocals
*[[Ralph Sharon]] -– piano and arranger
'''The [[Count Basie Orchestra]]:'''
*Count Basie -– pianist, leaderpiano
*[[Thad Jones]], [[Snooky Young]], [[Wendell Culley]], & [[Joe Newman (trumpeter)|Joe Newman]] -– trumpet
*[[Benny Powell]], [[Henry Coker]], & [[Al Grey]] -– trombone▼
*[[Charlie Fowlkes]] - baritone saxophone▼
*[[FrankMarshal Foster (musician)|Frank FosterRoyal]], & [[Billy Mitchell (jazz musician)|BillyFrank MitchellWess]] -– tenoralto saxophone
*[[Frank WessFoster (jazz musician)|Frank Foster]], & [[MarshallBilly Mitchell (saxophonist)|Billy RoyalMitchell]] -– altotenor saxophone
▲*[[Charlie Fowlkes]] -– baritone saxophone
▲*[[Benny Powell]], [[Henry Coker]], [[Al Grey]] - trombone
*[[Freddie Green]] -– guitar
*[[Eddie Jones (jazz musician)|Eddie Jones]] -– bass
*[[Sonny Payne]] -– drums
 
==References==
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{{Count Basie Orchestra}}
{{Tony Bennett}}
 
{{Authority control}}
 
[[Category:1959 albums]]
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[[Category:Count Basie Orchestra albums]]
[[Category:Roulette Records albums]]
[[Category:English-language albums]]
[[Category:Albums conducted by Count Basie]]
[[Category:Albums arranged by Ralph Sharon]]
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