While a few are classics that are nearly as old as Bennett himself, many of them are rarely performed nuggets from the post-vocal era, by such composers as Johnny Mandel, Stephen Sondheim, and Alan and Marilyn Bergman. (Time to Smile, a buoyant, inspirational piece, marks the debut of the song in anyone 's recorded repertoire; it is an older composition by Johnny Mercer and Geoffrey Clarkson only