Tony Bennett died Friday, July 21, at age 96, but his impact on music will live forever. In his memoir, Just Getting Started, Bennett, a longtime proponent of the Great American Songbook, credited his ...
Tony Bennett once waited for my mother to get out of the bathroom. You won’t read that in any of the glowing obituaries being written for him this weekend, but it’s true. He was performing at the Fox ...
With the death of Tony Bennett on July 21 at the age of 96, a chapter of the Great American Songbook comes to a close.Bennett left behind an impressive legacy, and while he didn’t write the music or ...
The legendary Tony Bennett, who died July 21 at the age of 96, would have earned a place in Jewish history even if he’d helped to liberate the Kaufering concentration camp at the close of World War II ...
Tony Bennett was one of the giants of American song. Uniquely, he built his career around his devotion to songs from the early 20th century but enjoyed unprecedented success well into the 21st—an age ...
Tony Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” graced a decadeslong career that ...
Tony Bennett was the last man standing – the saloon crooner, the jazz interpreter, the subtlest of stylists of the Great American Songbook, the man that Sinatra called the greatest popular singer in ...
It was in the early '60s. I was a copy boy at NBC News and the overnight disc jockey for the local radio station called and asked if I'd like to go on a boat ride down the Potomac River with his guest ...
One of the all-time great singers of his or any other generations died on Friday morning. Tony Bennett was 96 years old. Per The Associated Press, "There was no specific cause, but Bennett had been ...
As fans remember Tony Bennett, who died on July 21 at age 96, music lovers are looking back at one of his most beloved songs, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” The legendary jazz crooner first ...
The 1950s ushered in Bennett's ascent. Hits like Because of You, Cold, Cold Heart, Rags to Riches and Stranger in Paradise ...