Tony Bennett
got a #70 hit out of the title track, a warm ballad written by
Gordon Jenkins
, and elsewhere he turned to old standbys like
Cy Coleman
and Carolyn Leigh, pulling another song from their show
Little Me
, in this case
"On The Other Side Of The Tracks"
("I've Got Your Number" had appeared on
I Wanna Be Around
), and included a drum track, "Tricks," with
Chico Hamilton
. If you hadn't heard
Bennett
's previous two albums,
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
and
,
This Is All I Ask
would sound like a varied, satisfying collection, but if you had, you recognized the formula and realized it had been done slightly better before. ~ William Ruhlmann