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Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album is the twenty-seventh studio album and first Christmas album by Tony Bennett. It was arranged and conducted by Robert Farnon. Even though they had been friends since the early 1950s, Bennett and Farnon had not recorded together before, Bennett having such reverence for Farnon's work that he felt he "wasn't ready... not developed enough as an artist to record with him". Farnon, who normally recorded in London, came to New York City for one of the two sessions that produced this album. Six tracks were recorded at Columbia's recording studios in New York City, and four in London. In Bennett's autobiography, he recalls that the New York session was attended by such notable American arrangers as Don Costa, Marion Evans and Torrie Zito, all curious to see how Farnon worked. Quincy Jones subsequently threw a party for Farnon in New York City, and at the party there were so many famous musicians that Jones joked, "If a bomb goes off in this apartment, there won't be any more records made!" The album debuted on Billboard magazine's Christmas Albums sales chart in the issue dated December 14, 1968, and peaked at number 10. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowfal...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
