The Playground is a children's music album by Tony Bennett, released in 1998.
On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection.
Track listing "The Playground" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Bill Evans) – 3:36 "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:37 "Dat Dere" (Oscar Brown Jr., Bobby Timmons) – 3:17 "Little Things" - duet with Elmo (Joe Raposo) – 3:09 "Put On a Happy Face" - duet with Rosie O'Donnell (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) (from the musical Bye Bye Birdie) – 3:01 "Because We're Kids" (Dr. Seuss, Frederick Hollander) – 3:25 "My Mom" (Walter Donaldson) – 4:38 "Swinging on a Star" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:04 "Bein' Green" - duet with Kermit the Frog (Raposo) – 2:41 "Firefly" - duet with Kermit the Frog (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 1:32 "When You Wish Upon a Star" (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington) – 2:58 "(It's Only) A Paper Moon" (Arlen, Yip Harburg, Billy Rose) – 2:49 "The Inchworm" (Frank Loesser) – 2:41 "The Bare Necessities" (Terry Gilkyson) – 2:09 "Make the World Your Own" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) – 3:48 "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn, Bronislaw Kaper) – 2:10 "It's Christmas in Herald Square" (Tony Tamburello/Joyce Vintaloro) – 3:25
Personnel Tony Bennett – vocals Ralph Sharon – piano Gray Sargent – guitar Paul Langosch – double bass Clayton Cameron – drums
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