First-Ever Official Music Video for Tony Bennett’s “My Favorite Things” From ‘Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album’ Available Today
The first-ever official music video created especially for Tony Bennett’s seasonal classic song,“My Favorite Things,” was released today.
“My Favorite Things,” a mixed media video created by producer and director, Juan E Bedolla
features original animation, career-spanning photos of Tony Bennett, as well as original paintings, signed by the artist using his family name of “Benedetto.”
Please enjoy the video HERE.
The newly created video debuted today in conjunction with the reissue of Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album. This is the first time the recording has been available on vinyl since its original release in 1968.
The new edition of Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album includes a restoration of the original album art by illustrator Bob Peak and a vinyl sleeve featuring original holiday paintings by Tony Bennett. The album has been remixed and sonically enhanced for this 2021 pressing by producer/sound engineer (and Tony’s son) Dae Bennett, winner of seven Grammy Awards and a Primetime Emmy. A limited edition of Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album test pressings with album sleeve signed by Tony Bennett will be available for sale today at https://shop.tonybennett.com/
Released on October 6, 1968, on Columbia Records, Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album was Tony’s first holiday album. Originally produced by Jack Gold, Snowfall showcases ten swinging performances of perennial holiday classics as interpreted by the master pop vocalist, accompanied by a full orchestra conducted by Robert Farnon, the album’s musical arranger. Tony and Farnon recorded the album in two historic sessions, laying down six performances at Columbia’s 30th Street Studios in New York and four tracks at CTS Bayswater in London.
Tony Bennett recently made history breaking the Guinness World Record for being the “oldest artist to release an album of new material” with the launch of Love For Sale, his new album with Lady Gaga on Columbia Records/Interscope. The 95-year-old Bennett now has ten #1 albums topping Billboard’s Jazz Album charts and has 15 #1 Traditional Jazz Albums making him the artist with most #1 albums in that category. Bennett also now has a 59-year span of top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 – the longest span of top 10s for a living artist.
Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album was certified RIAA platinum on February 12, 2021.
Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album, released through Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment is available as a digital album or single 12″ vinyl LP. Please visit HERE.
Barnes & Noble will offer their exclusive color variant of Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album, pressed on 12″ opaque white vinyl.