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Astoria, Queens
Astoria is a neighborhood in the northwestern corner of the borough of Queens in New York City. Located in Community Board 1, Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to three other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City, Sunnyside (bordering at Northern Boulevard), and Woodside (bordering at 50th Street).
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan, New York City.Although theater is the preferred spelling in the U.S.A. (see further at American and British English Spelling Differences), the majority of venues, performers, and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
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Cleveland
Cleveland () is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles (100 km) west of the Pennsylvania border. It was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, and became a manufacturing center owing to its location at the head of numerous canals and railroad lines. With the decline of heavy manufacturing, Cleveland's businesses have diversified into the service economy, including the financial services, insurance, legal, and healthcare sectors, though the city's population has continued to decline. Cleveland is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Fort Dix
Fort Dix is a United States Army installation located in parts of New Hanover Township, Pemberton Township, and Springfield Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey, USA. It is also a census-designated place, and as of the United States 2000 Census, the installation population was 7,464.
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Las Vegas, Nevada
:This article is about the city of Las Vegas, Nevada proper, not to be confused with the Las Vegas Strip or the Las Vegas metropolitan area. For other uses of "Las Vegas", see Las Vegas (disambiguation).
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The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and number of books. The head of the Library is the Librarian of Congress, currently James H. Billington.
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Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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National Arts Club
The National Arts Club is a private club founded in 1898 to "stimulate, foster, and promote public interest in the arts and to educate the American people in the fine arts". Since 1906 the organization has occupied the Samuel J. Tilden House, a landmark Gothic Revival brownstone at 15 Gramercy Park, New York City, New York, immediately next door and West of the Players Club, with similar interests. The club offers a variety of shows, educational programs, and awards in areas including theater, visual arts, film, literature and music. It is noted for allowing members access to a Gramercy Park key.
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New Orleans
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New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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Paramus, New Jersey
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Queens
Queens is the largest in area, the second largest in population, and the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States.
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South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. (), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. Article One of the United States Constitution provides for a federal district, distinct from the states, to serve as the permanent national capital. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the federal territory until an act of Congress in 1871 established a single, unified municipal government for the whole District. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as Washington, D.C. The city shares its name with the U.S. state of Washington, which is located on the country's Pacific coast.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style. It has been the residence of every U.S. President since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.
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Al Cohn
Al Cohn (Brooklyn, NY, 11.24.1925-Stroudsburg, Pennsylvanie, 02.15.1988) was an American jazz saxophonist and arranger/composer.
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Al Jolson
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Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards.
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Aldo Nova
Aldo Nova (born Aldo Caporuscio on November 13, 1956, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and producer, Nova gained fame with his self-titled debut album Aldo Nova in 1981, and its accompanying single "Fantasy", which climbed to #23 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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American Masters
American Masters is a PBS television show which produces biographies on the artists, actors and writers of the United States that have left a profound impact on the nation's popular culture. It is produced by WNET in New York City. The show debuted on PBS in 1986.
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Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983) is an English singer-songwriter, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including R&B;, soul, jazz. Winehouse is best known for her powerful contralto vocals.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer of musical theatre. He started composing at the age of six, and published his first piece at the age of nine.
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Anne, Princess Royal
Anne, Princess Royal (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950), is the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of her birth, she was third, and later for a few years was second in the line of succession to the thrones of seven independent states; however, after additions to the Royal Family, and an evolution of the Commonwealth, Anne is currently tenth in line to the thrones of 16 countries. She is resident in and most directly involved with the United Kingdom, the oldest realm, while also carrying out duties in and on behalf of the other states of which her mother is sovereign. The seventh holder of the title Princess Royal, Anne is known for her charitable work, being the patron of over 200 organisations, and she carries out about 700 royal engagements and public appearances per year.
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Art Blakey
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Art Garfunkel
Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American singer, poet, and actor, best known as half of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel. In particular, he is remembered for being the lead singer on the #1 hit single, "Bridge Over Troubled Water". Highlights of his solo career include a top ten hit, three top twenty hits, six top forty hits, fourteen Adult Contemporary top 30 singles, Five Adult Contemporary number ones, two UK number ones, a Golden Globe nomination and a People's Choice Award.
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Art Tatum
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Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto (born March 29, 1940) is a Brazilian singer known for her samba and bossa nova music, including the Grammy Award-winning song "The Girl from Ipanema".
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Babyface (musician)
Kenneth Brian "Babyface" Edmonds (born April 10, 1958) is an American R&B; and pop singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, record producer, film producer, and entrepreneur.
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand ( ; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
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BeBe Winans
Benjamin "BeBe" Winans (born 17 September 1962) is a gospel and R&B; singer. He is a member of the noted Winans family, most members of which are also gospel artists.
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Bette Midler
Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress and comedian, also known (by her informal stage name) as The Divine Miss M. She has starred in live-action films such as Ruthless People, Beaches and Hocus Pocus, as well as featuring in animated films such as Oliver & Company and Fantasia 2000.
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946) is the former 42nd President of the United States and served from 1993 to 2001. At 46 he was the third-youngest president. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and was the first baby boomer president. His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is currently the United States Secretary of State. Each received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Yale Law School.
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Bill Evans
William John Evans, known as Bill Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John Taylor, Steve Kuhn, Don Friedman, Marian McPartland, Denny Zeitlin, Bobo Stenson, Michel Petrucciani and Keith Jarrett, as well as many other musicians world-wide. The music of Bill Evans continues to inspire younger pianists like Marcin Wasilewski, Fred Hersch, Bill Charlap, Lyle Mays, Eliane Elias and arguably Brad Mehldau, early in his career. He is considered by some to be the most influential post World War II jazz pianist.
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Billie Holiday
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Billy Crystal
William Edward "Billy" Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the critical and box office successes When Harry Met Sally... and City Slickers. Additionally, he has hosted the Academy Awards eight times.
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Billy Davis, Jr.
Billy Davis, Jr. (born June 26, 1938; St. Louis, Missouri) is an American musician, best known as a member of The 5th Dimension. Along with his wife, Marilyn McCoo, he had hit records during 1976 and 1977 with I Hope We Get to Love in Time, Your Love, and ''You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show). Davis and McCoo were married in 1969 and were the main entertainers of a television program, The Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. Show, in 1977. That same year, You Don't Have to Be a Star'' won a Grammy Award.
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Billy Joel
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
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Billy Steinberg
Billy (William) Steinberg is an American songwriter. He has achieved most of his success as part of a song writing team, most notably with Tom Kelly. He has also co-written several hit songs with Rick Nowels.
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Bing Crosby
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Bob Dylan
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Bobby Darin
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Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, born in Burbank, California. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially accessible recordings in the 1990s including "Nick of Time", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneakin' Up on You", and the slow ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me". Raitt has received nine Grammy Awards in her career and is a lifelong political activist.
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Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Inglewood, California) is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of Heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
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Candido Camero
Candido de Guerra Camero, also known simply as Candido (born April 22, 1921) is a Cuban percussionist (mainly conga and bongo) who backed many Afro-Cuban jazz and straightforward jazz acts since the 1950s. Although he has been credited as the first person to use the congas in jazz music, it is well known that at least Diego Iborra preceded him with Dizzy Gillespie by the mid 1940s as well as Luciano "Chano" Pozo Gonzales in 1947 also with Dizzy Gillespie at Carnegie Hall and an European tour.
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Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedienne, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway, she debuted on television. After successful appearances on The Garry Moore Show, Carol moved to Los Angeles and began an eleven-year run on The Carol Burnett Show which was aired on CBS television from 1967 to 1978. With roots in vaudeville, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show combining comedy sketches, song, and dance. The comedy sketches ranged from film parodies to character pieces which featured the many talents of Burnett herself who created and played several well-known and distinctive characters.
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Celine Dion
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Chevy Chase
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Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera (born January 23, 1933) is an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award (December 2002). She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
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Christina Aguilera
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Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.
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Chuck Wayne
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Clint Eastwood
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Cloris Leachman
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Count Basie
William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years. Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. Basie's theme songs were "One O'Clock Jump" and "April In Paris".
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Dan Hill
Daniel Grafton "Dan" Hill IV (born 3 June 1954) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. He had two major hits with his songs, "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try," a duet with Vonda Shepard.
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Dana Carvey
Dana Thomas Carvey (born June 2, 1955) is an American actor and stand-up comedian, best known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and for playing the role of Garth in the ''Wayne's World'' movies.
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Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois (, Respell|lan-) (born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, and singer-songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, and Willie Nelson. Lanois is best known for producing, with Brian Eno, a number of albums for U2, including The Joshua Tree.
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Dave Brubeck
David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (born December 6, 1920) is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.
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David Foster
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David Hockney
David Hockney, CH, RA, (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire, although he also maintains a base in London. An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century.
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David Kahne
David Kahne is an American record producer. Kahne is notable for his role as in-house producer and engineer at 415 Records, the first American New Wave label, and for his subsequent roles as Vice President of A&R; at Columbia Records and Warner Bros. Records. He produced , the 1995 Grammy Award winner for Album of the Year. Other artists Kahne has produced include Paul McCartney, Fishbone, Sublime, The Strokes, Sugar Ray, The Bangles, Translator, Stevie Nicks and Regina Spektor. He also worked with Linkin Park on some of their earlier studio work after signing with Warner.
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Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970. Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Ross has sold more than 150 million records.
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Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music.
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Domenico Modugno
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Don Was
Don Was (born Don Fagenson; September 13, 1952) is an American musician, bassist and record producer.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was a composer, pianist, and big band leader.
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Eddie Cantor
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Eddie Izzard
Edward John "Eddie" Izzard (born 7 February 1962) is a British stand-up comedian, actor and voice-over artist. His comedy style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime.
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Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932), also known as Liz Taylor, is an English-American actress. She is known for her acting talent and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle, including many marriages. Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden age.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known by the stage name Elvis Costello, is a British singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the Punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; the critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes him as a "pop encyclopedia," able to "reinvent the past in his own image".Stephen Thomas Erlewine, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql;=10:ly09kect7q70 Get Happy!! [Ryko Bonus Tracks]], Allmusic. Retrieved 17 September 2007.
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only person who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times; as a solo performer, as well as a member of rock bands the Yardbirds and Cream. Throughout his career, Clapton has been viewed by critics and fans alike as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time, Clapton was ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #53 on their list of the "Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2010, Clapton was ranked #4 on ''Gibson's'' Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
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Fiorello La Guardia
Fiorello Henry La Guardia (; born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia; December 11, 1882 September 20, 1947) was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a liberal Republican. Previously he was elected to Congress in 1916 and 1918, and again from 1922 through 1930. Irascible, energetic and charismatic, he craved publicity and is acclaimed as one of the three or four greatest mayors in American history. Only five feet tall, he was called "the Little Flower" (Fiorello is Italian for "little flower", diminutive of fiore, Italian for "flower").
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Flavor Flav
William Jonathan Drayton, Jr. (born March 16, 1959), better known by his stage name Flavor Flav, is an American rapper, television star, and member of the rap group Public Enemy. He is also known for popularizing the role of the hype man and for yelling "Yeah boy!" and "Flavor Flav!" during performances.
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Florence LaRue
Florence LaRue is an actress, humanitarian, and Grammy award-winning singer. She is best known as the original female lead singer of The 5th Dimension.
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Frank Sinatra
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Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.
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Gary Giddins
Gary Giddins (born March 21, 1948) is an American jazz critic, author, and director, best known for his longtime work with The Village Voice. Born in Brooklyn, and raised on Long Island, Giddins graduated from Grinnell College, Iowa, in 1970. After some freelance work as a music and film critic, in 1974 he started writing his column "Weather Bird" for the Village Voice, which he ended in December 2003.
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George Hearn
For the Louisiana psychologist, see George E. Hearn.
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George Jones
George Glenn Jones (born September 12, 1931) is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette.
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (; born July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut) was the 43rd President of the United States, serving from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th Governor of Texas, serving from 1995 to 2000.
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Gilda Radner
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Grace Bumbry
Grace Bumbry (born January 4, 1937) is an American opera singer, and is considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, as well as a major soprano for many years. She was a member of an extraordinary and pioneering generation of singers who followed Marian Anderson (including Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Shirley Verrett and Reri Grist) in the world of classical music and paved the way for future African-American opera and classical singers. Bumbry's voice was rich and sizable, possessing a wide range, and was capable of producing a very distinctive plangent tone. In her prime, she also possessed good agility and bel canto technique (see for example her renditions of the 'Veil Song' from Verdi's Don Carlo in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as her Ernani from the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1984). She was particularly noted for her fiery temperament and dramatic intensity on stage. More recently, she has also become known as a recitalist and interpreter of lieder, and as a teacher. From the late 1980s on, she seemed to concentrate her career in Europe, rather than in the US. A long time resident of Switzerland, she now makes her home in Salzburg, Austria.
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Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards (20), including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995. His best-known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme"), the Peter Gunn Theme from the television series, and back-to-back Academy Awards for the songs "Moon River" from the Blake Edwards film ''Breakfast at Tiffany's and "Days of Wine and Roses" from the 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses''.
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Herb Alpert
Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, '''Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or TJB'''. He is also a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M; Records (a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold).
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Herbie Mann
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Humberto Gatica
Humberto Gatica is a Chilean-born American record producer, music mixer and audio engineer. Son of humberto gatica brother of lucho gatica the great singer from latin america
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Italian American
An Italian American ( singular, plural) is an American of Italian ancestry. The designation may also refer to someone possessing Italian and American dual citizenship. Italian Americans are the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States.
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Jack Albertson
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Jack Nicholson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director and producer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters.
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James Brown
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James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor of stage and screen, well known for his deep basso voice. To modern audiences, he is known for providing the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise and the tagline for CNN.
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James Levine
James Lawrence Levine (; born June 23, 1943) is an American conductor and pianist. He is currently the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Levine's first performance conducting the Metropolitan Opera was on June 5, 1971, and as of July 2009 he has conducted more than 2,456 Met performances. In 1997, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
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Jaye P. Morgan
Jaye P. Morgan (born Mary Margaret Morgan, December 3, 1931, Mancos, Colorado) is a retired popular music American singer actress and game show panelist.
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Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman (born October 11, 1951) is a Grammy Awards-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French living pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday.
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Jeff Bova
Jeff Bova (born Jeffrey Bova in 1953) is an American Grammy Award winning keyboardist, composer, arranger and record producer. He has been active in music industry since the mid-1970s, contributing to dozens of recordings by significant mainstream artists like Celine Dion, Michael Jackson, Blondie, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Bill Laswell and Herbie Hancock, Bernard Edwards and Tony Thompson, Meat Loaf, Missing Persons and Billy Joel among others.
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Jeff Tamarkin
Jeff Tamarkin is an American editor, author and historian specializing in music and popular culture.
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Jim Steinman
James Richard "Jim" Steinman (born November 1, 1947) is an American record producer, composer and lyricist, responsible for several hit songs. He has also worked as an arranger, pianist, and singer. His work has included songs in the adult contemporary, rock and roll, dance, pop, musical theater, and film score genres.
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Jimmy Bowen
Jimmy Bowen (born 30 November 1937, Santa Rita, New Mexico) is an American record producer and former pop music performer.
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Jo Jones
:For other persons named Jonathan Jones, see Jonathan Jones
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Joan Sutherland
Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (7 November 192610 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.
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Joe Venuti
Giuseppe (Joe) Venuti (September 16, 1903 – August 14, 1978) was an Italian-American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist.
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Joel Whitburn
Joel Carver Whitburn (born November 29, 1939; Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) is an American author and music historian.
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John J. O'Connor
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John Leguizamo
Jonathan Alberto "John" Leguizamo (born July 22, 1964) is a Colombian-born American actor, comedian, voice artist, and producer.
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John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is a prolific American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning six decades, he has composed many of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including those for Jaws, the Star Wars Saga, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, Jurassic Park, ''Schindler's List, Home Alone, and three Harry Potter'' films. He has composed the music for all but two of director Steven Spielberg's feature films.
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Johnny Rivers
Johnny Rivers (born John Henry Ramistella, November 7, 1942, New York) is an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. His styles include folk songs, blues, and revivals of old-time rock 'n' roll songs and some original material. Rivers's greatest success came in the mid and late 1960s with a string of hit songs (including "Seventh Son", "Poor Side of Town", "Summer Rain", and "Secret Agent Man"), but he has continued to record and perform to the present.
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Judy Garland
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Julie Andrews
Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE ( Wells; born 1 October 1935) is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical films such as Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.
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Julie Harris
Julia Ann "Julie" Harris (born December 2, 1925) is an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1994, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. She also received the 2002 Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award.
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K.d. lang
Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC (born November 2, 1961), known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials.
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Kenny Burrell
Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist. His playing is grounded in bebop and blues; he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians.
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L.A. Reid
Antonio "L.A." Reid (born June 7, 1956) is a three-time Grammy Award-winning American record executive, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the co-founder of LaFace Records. He is responsible for signing and helping bring Mariah Carey, P!nk, Justin Bieber, Avril Lavigne, Toni Braxton, TLC, Usher, Ciara, OutKast, and Dido to multi-platinum album sales.
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Laura Bush
Laura Lane Welch Bush (born November 4, 1946) is the wife of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush, and thus the First Lady of the United States from January 20, 2001 to January 20, 2009.
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Lena Horne
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Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher (born July 23, 1928) is an American pianist and conductor.
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Louis Armstrong
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Luciano Pavarotti
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Marilyn McCoo
Marilyn McCoo (born September 30, 1943) is an American singer, actress, and television presenter, who is best known for being the lead female vocalist in the group The 5th Dimension, as well as hosting the 1980s music countdown series Solid Gold. She is the wife of singer Billy Davis, Jr., the founder and co-member of The 5th Dimension, whom she married in 1969.
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Mario Cuomo
Mario Matthew Cuomo (; born June 15, 1932) served as the 52nd Governor of the state of New York from 1983 to 1994. Cuomo became nationally known for his keynote speech at the 1984 Democratic National Convention and the subsequent speculation over the next decade that he might run for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation.
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Mel Brooks
Melvin "Mel" Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), better known by his stage name Mel Brooks, is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor, and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks is a member of the short list of entertainers with the distinction of having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony award. Three of his films ranked in the Top 20 on the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 comedy films of all-time: Blazing Saddles, The Producers and Young Frankenstein.
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Michael Jackson
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Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born November 6, 1931) is a German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of only twelve people to have won an all the major American entertainment awards: an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. In 2001, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He received the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 2010.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (, ) (born January 28, 1948) is a Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance. After freelancing with many companies, he joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer to learn George Balanchine's style of movement. He then moved to New York to dance with the American Ballet Theatre, where he later became artistic director.
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Mitch Miller
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Morgan Freeman
Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, film director, and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice.
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Nat Adderley
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Natalie Cole
Natalie Maria Cole (born February 6, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and performer. She achieved success in her early career as an R&B; star, but smoothly changed her repertoire toward a more pop and jazz oriented musical style in the early 1990s. She has won nine Grammy Awards. Cole has been singing since she was 5 years old.
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Ossie Davis
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Patti Page
Clara Ann Fowler (born November 8, 1927), known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records. Her nickname is ''The Singin' Rage''.
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Pearl Bailey
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People (magazine)
People (originally called People Weekly) is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. As of 2006, it has a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion. It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Advertising Age's annual "A-list" and #3 on ''Adweek's'' "Brand Blazers" list in October 2006.
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Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend (; born 19 May 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His career with The Who spans more than forty years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 60s and 70s, and, according to Eddie Vedder, "possibly the greatest live band ever."
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Plácido Domingo
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Quincy Jones
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Ralph Sharon
Ralph Sharon (born September 17, 1923) is a jazz pianist.
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Ric Wake
Ric Wake (born London, England) is a record producer who has won an Academy Award and two Grammy Awards. During his tenure as staff producer with Sony Music Entertainment he has worked with vocalists such as Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, Barry Manilow, and Marc Anthony. He has worked with Greek composer Yanni to help produce Yanni Voices.
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Rick Nowels
Richard Wright Nowels Jr. (born March 16, 1960 in Palo Alto, California) is a Grammy / Ivor Novello award-winning songwriter/producer who has worked with many of the most vibrant artists in contemporary music. He is a multi-instrumentalist (guitar, keyboards, bass) who incorporates contemporary sounds and rhythms within classic songwriting.
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Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931) is a Puerto Rican singer, dancer and actress. She is the first and only Hispanic and one of the few performers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony and at the time the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award.
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Rob Marshall
Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award Best Picture Chicago.
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Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936), better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002.
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Robin Williams
Robin McLaurim Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian.
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Roger Daltrey
Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944), is an English singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in a large number of films, theatre and television roles and also producing films.
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Ronald Townson
Ronald "Ron" Townson (January 20, 1933 - August 2, 2001) was an American vocalist. He was an original member of The 5th Dimension, a popular vocal group of the late '60s and early '70s.
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Roy Bittan
Roy Bittan (born July 2, 1949) is an American keyboardist, best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, which he joined on August 23, 1974. Bittan, nicknamed "The Professor", plays the piano, organ, accordion and synthesizers.
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Roy Halee
Roy Halee is an American record producer and engineer, best known for working with Simon and Garfunkel.
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Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist, perhaps best-known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961).
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Russ Titelman
Russ Titelman (born 16 August 1944, Los Angeles, California) is an American record producer and songwriter. He has to date won three Grammy Awards. He earned his first producing the Steve Winwood song "Higher Love", and his second and third for Eric Clapton's Journeyman and Unplugged albums. Titelman also produced the 24 Nights live album of 1990 and the all-blues album From The Cradle, released in 1994.
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Sandra Grant
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Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel are an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, backed by the hit single "The Sounds of Silence". Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate, propelling them further into the public consciousness.
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Smokey Robinson
William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B; and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy. Robinson's consistent commercial success and creative contributions to the label have earned him the title "King of Motown."
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Stan Getz
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Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, music critic, film critic, and poet.
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Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer.
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Steven Rinkoff
Steven Rinkoff is a Grammy award winning record producer, mixer, and sound engineer, known for his work with songwriter-producer Jim Steinman. He has worked with Steinman since 1986 on various projects, in all facets of production (production, mixing, and engineering), and is Steinman's partner in Ravenous Records, a record label.
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Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg, (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and video game designer. In a career spanning six decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. He is considered one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is also one of the founders of DreamWorks.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Judkins (born May 13, 1950), name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind from shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
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Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell (born August 16, 1945) is an eminent 20th century ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
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Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley (; born September 13, 1964) is an American talk show host, author, political commentator, entrepreneur, advocate and philanthropist. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi and grew up in Kokomo, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles. Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991, and starting in 1996 he hosted the talk show BET Talk (later renamed BET Tonight) on BET. Controversially, after Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC News in 2001, BET declined to renew Smiley's contract that year. Smiley then began hosting The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR from 2002 to 2004 and currently hosts Tavis Smiley on PBS on the weekdays and "The Tavis Smiley Show" from PRI. Most recently, he and best friend Dr. Cornel West have joined forces for their own radio talk show, "Smiley & West".
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Teresa Brewer
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The Perry Como Show
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The Times
The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785, when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.
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Tim Conway
Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway (born December 15, 1933) is an American comedian and actor, primarily known for his roles in sitcoms, films and television. Conway is best-known for his role as the inept second-in-command officer, Ensign Charles Parker, to Lt. Commander Quinton McHale (played by Ernest Borgnine), in the popular 1960s WWII sitcom ''McHale's Navy, and for co-starring alongside Carol Burnett on The Carol Burnett Show''.
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Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have earned her the title '''The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll'''.
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Tommy LiPuma
Tommy LiPuma (born July 5, 1936, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American music producer. In his long career, he has worked with many musicians, including Miles Davis, Al Jarreau, Anita Baker, Natalie Cole, Claudine Longet, Dave Mason, the Yellowjackets, Michael Franks, Diana Krall, and The Story. He has over 30 Grammy Award nominations and 3 wins, including the father-daughter duet of Natalie Cole and her father Nat King Cole for the song "Unforgettable". He produced George Benson's 1976 album ''Breezin' ''. He has also worked with The Crusaders' Joe Sample, and co-produced, with Hugh McCracken, Dr. John's City Lights (1978) and Tango Palace (1979).
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto; August 3, 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz.
http://wn.com/Tony_Bennett -
Tracey Ullman
Tracey Ullman (born 30 December 1959) is a British-American stage and television actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, screenwriter and author.
http://wn.com/Tracey_Ullman -
Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer and choreographer, who lives and works in New York City.
http://wn.com/Twyla_Tharp -
Van Cliburn
Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (born July 12, 1934), is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War.
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Vicki Lawrence
Vicki Lawrence (born Vicki Ann Axelrad in March 26, 1949) is an American actress, comedienne, and singer, who was frequently a game show panelist in the 1970s and 1980s. She is best known for her co-starring role on The Carol Burnett Show, alongside Carol Burnett, from 1967 to 1978, and as the sharp-tongued matriarch, Thelma Harper (the main character on ''Mama's Family, airing from 1983 to 1990, which was spun off from The Carol Burnett Show's The Family'' sketches). She has also been credited as Vicki Lawrence Schultz.
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Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (, ; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director.
http://wn.com/Warren_Beatty -
Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is an American R&B;/Pop singer, actress, and former fashion model. A relative of several soul singers, including her mother Cissy Houston, cousins Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, and close family friend Aretha Franklin, Houston began singing at her New Jersey church as a member of a junior gospel choir at age eleven. After she began performing alongside her mother at night clubs in the New York City area, she was discovered by Arista Records label head Clive Davis. Houston has released studio albums and movie soundtrack albums throughout her career, all of which have had diamond, multi-platinum, platinum, or gold certification.
http://wn.com/Whitney_Houston -
Will Friedwald
Will Friedwald (born 1961) is an American author and music critic. He has written for such newspapers as The New York Times, The Village Voice, Newsday, The New York Observer, and The New York Sun, and for such magazines as Entertainment Weekly, Oxford American, New York, Mojo, BBC Music Magazine, Stereo Review, Fi(Delity), and other music and film journals.
http://wn.com/Will_Friedwald -
Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music.
http://wn.com/Zubin_Mehta
Bennett, Tony Filmography
- The 54th Annual Grammy Awards (2012)
- Tony Bennett: Duets II (2012)
- The Zen of Bennett (2012)
- Tony Bennett Duets 2: The Great Performances (2012)
- Premios Ondas 2011 (2011)
- The Royal Variety Performance 2011 (2011)
- A Very Gaga Thanksgiving (2011)
- Christmas in Rockefeller Center (2011)
- MTV Video Music Awards 2011 (2011)
- The Last Play at Shea (2010)
- We Are the World 25 for Haiti (2010)
- The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear (2010)
- Bee Gees: In Our Own Time (2010)
- Recording: The History of Recorded Music (2010)
- Stevie Wonder: In Performance at the White House - The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize (2009)
- Streisand: Live in Concert (2009)
- Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009)
- Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)
- Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (2008)
- The 50th Annual Grammy Awards (2008)
- Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008)
- Movies Rock (2007)
- Michael Parkinson's Greatest Entertainers (2007)
- Truth in Terms of Beauty (2007)
- Christmas in Rockefeller Center (2007)
- The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards (2007)
- The 49th Annual Grammy Awards (2007)
- Happy Birthday Elton! From Madison Square Garden, New York (2007)
- Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven (2007)
- Premiere Bond: Opening Nights (2006)
- The 2006 Billboard Music Awards (2006)
- Tony Bennett: An American Classic (2006)
- Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic (2006)
- In Conversation with Tony Bennett and Abby Mann (2005)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2005)
- Saturday Swings (2005)
- More All-Time Greatest Love Songs (2005)
- The 58th Annual Tony Awards (2004)
- Andy Williams: My Favorite Duets (2004)
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies (2004)
- Christmas in Rockefeller Center (2004)
- Sesame Street Presents: The Street We Live On (2004)
- The 46th Annual Grammy Awards (2004)
- The 45th Annual Grammy Awards (2003)
- Bruce Almighty (2003)
- Wonderful World: Live in San Francisco (2002)
- A Night at the Apollo (2002)
- Party at the Palace: The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace (2002)
- Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion (2002)
- 75th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (2001)
- Christmas in Washington (2001)
- Christmas in Rockefeller Center (2001)
- Princess Diana: The Uncrowned Queen (2001)
- MTV Unplugged: Ballads (2000)
- Christmas Dream (2000)
- Playboy: The Party Continues (2000)
- Holiday Music Spectacular (2000)
- Our Favorite Things: Christmas in Vienna (2000)
- Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration (2000)
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Harold Arlen (1999)
- Amy Grant: A Christmas to Remember (1999)
- Analyze This (1999)
- Pixelon's iBash (1999)
- Garth Brooks & the Magic of Christmas (1999)
- Tony Bennett Live by Request: An All-Star Tribute (1998)
- Elmopalooza! (1998)
- Frame After Frame: The Images of Herman Leonard (1998)
- The 39th Annual Grammy Awards (1997)
- Tony Bennett Live by Request: A Valentine's Day Special (1997)
- 48th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1996)
- The 38th Annual Grammy Awards (1996)
- Tony Bennett Live by Request: A Valentine's Special (1996)
- Golden Anniversary (1995)
- Tony Bennett: Here's to the Ladies, a Concert of Hope (1995)
- Sinatra: 80 Years My Way (1995)
- Super Bowl XXIX (1995)
- MTV Video Music Awards 1994 (1994)
- Men, Movies & Carol (1994)
- Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame (1994)
- The Scout (1994)
- Elvis: The Tribute (1994)
- Hopes for the Holidays (1994)
- The 21st Annual American Music Awards (1994)
- The 36th Annual Grammy Awards (1994)
- Legend to Legend Night: A Celebrity Cavalcade (1993)
- The 35th Annual Grammy Awards (1993)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1993)
- An American Reunion: The People's Inaugural Celebration (1993)
- MTV Video Music Awards 1993 (1993)
- Abbey Lincoln: You Gotta Pay the Band (1993)
- Street Scenes: New York on Film (1992)
- The 33rd Annual Grammy Awards (1991)
- Sinatra 75: The Best Is Yet to Come (1990)
- Christmas with the Stars: An International Earthquake Benefit (1989)
- Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration (1988)
- The 59th Annual Academy Awards (1987)
- Mancini and Friends (1987)
- All-Star Party for Joan Collins (1987)
- Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1985)
- The 37th Annual Emmy Awards (1985)
- The Meaning of Monty Python's Meaning of Life (1983)
- Night of 100 Stars (1982)
- Tony Bennett: Special Evening with Tony Bennett (1981)
- Count Basie at Carnegie Hall (1981)
- Sinatra: The First 40 Years (1980)
- Friars Club Tribute to Gene Kelly (1976)
- Tony & Lena (1973)
- Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly (1973)
- Liza with a Z: A Concert for Television (1972)
- The Oscar (1966)
- The Best on Record (1965)
- Freedom Spectacular (1964)
- The Arthur Godfrey Thanksgiving Special (1963)
- The Adam Faith Show (1961)
- The Arthur Murray Special for Bob Hope (1960)
Bennett, Tony Filmography
- Fuga di mezzanotte (1995)
- Marco Polo: La storia mai raccontata (1995)
- La casa del piacere (1994)
- Il labirinto dei sensi (1993)
Bennett, Tony Filmography
Karaoke:
Lyrics:
- Anything Goes: Anything Goes
- Are You Havin' Any Fun
- Body and Soul
- FIREFLY
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- I Could Write A Book
- I Love A Piano
- I Wanna Be Around
- I've Never Seen...
- Judy
- Lover
- Lullaby of Broadway
- One for My Baby
- Some Other Time
- The Lady Is A Tramp
- The Playground
- Tricks
- When Do The Bells Ring For Me (ft. Mariah Carey)
- Yesterday I Heard The Rain
- A Foggy Day (In London Town)
- A Stranger In Paradise
- All My Tomorrows
- Antonia
- Cloudy Morning
- Crazy Rhythm
- If I Ruled The World
- It Don't Mean A Thing
- It Had to Be You
- Moonglow
- Spring In Manhattan
- Take The Moment
- The Best Man
- Thou Swell
- Winter Wonderland
- What A Difference A Day Made
- Because Of You
- Chicago That Toddling Town
- Get Happy
- Good Life
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
- (I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way
- I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
- Just In Time
- Love Is Here To Stay
- Old Devil Moon
- On The Sunny Side Of The Street
- Once Upon A Time
- Rags To Riches
- The Best Is Yet To Come
- The Gentle Rain
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- My Favorite Things
- Christmas Time Is Here
- Deck the Halls
- The First Noël
- The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
- Silver Bells
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- I Love the Winter Weather / I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
- I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
- Christmas in Herald Square
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- What Child Is This (previously unreleased)
- Winter Wonderland
- Silent Night
- White Christmas
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- One for My Baby (And One More For The Road)
- Body and Soul
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Blue Velvet
- How Do You Keep the Music Playing
- The Girl I Love
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
- Speak Low
- This Is All I Ask
- Watch What Happens
- Stranger In Paradise
- The Way You Look Tonight
- Yesterday I Heard the Rain
- It Had to Be You
- When Do the Bells Ring for Me
- Begin the Beguine
- Smile
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Our Love Is Here to Stay
- Steppin' Out With My Baby
- Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
- The Lady's in Love With You
- Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
- Anything Goes
- The Very Thought of You
- The Way You Look Tonight
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
- That Old Black Magic
- A Foggy Day
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- It Had to Be You
- Moonglow
- She's Funny That Way
- You Go to My Head
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Taking a Chance on Love
- Just in Time
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- I Wanna Be Around
- The Good Life
- Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
- Smile
- My Favorite Things
- Cold, Cold Heart
- I Could Write a Book
- It Had to Be You
- Blue Moon
- The Way You Look Tonight
- My Foolish Heart
- Steppin' Out With My Baby
- Stranger in Paradise
- Rags to Riches
- Cold Cold Heart
- Blue Velvet
- Here in My Heart
- Chicago
- Solitaire
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- Anything Goes
- Because of You
- I Won't Cry Anymore
- The King of Broken Hearts
- Stay Where You Are
- There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
- Congratulations to Someone
- Why Does It Have to Be Me
- Funny Thing
- Until Yesterday (Non è la pioggia)
- Beacuse of You
- Cold, Cold Heart
- Rags to Riches
- Medley: One for My Baby / It Had to Be You
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- I Wanna Be Around
- This Is All I Ask
- The Good Life
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Who Can I Turn To? (When Nobody Needs Me)
- Yesterday I Heard the Rain
- For Once in My Life
- I Guess I'll Have Co Change My Plans
- Chicago
- Lester Leaps In
- With Plenty of Money and You
- Anything Goes
- Life Is a Song
- Jumping at the Woodside
- I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face
- Jeepers Creepers
- Swinging the Blues
- Growing Pains
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- Are You Having Any Fun
- Dickie's Dream
- Every Tub
- Out of the Window
- Stranger in Paradise
- Rags to Riches
- Because of You
- My Baby Just Cares for Me
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- Love Letters
- Here in My Heart
- Since My Love Has Gone
- Darn That Dream
- Give Me the Simple Life
- Old Devil Moon
- I Fall in Love Too Easily
- Congratulations to Someone
- Sing, You Sinners
- Blue Velvet
- My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)
- Until Yesterday
- While We're Young
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
- Cold Cold Heart
- Put on a Happy Face
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- Once Upon a Time
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- I Wanna Be Around
- The Good Life
- This Is All I Ask
- When Joanna Loved Me
- Speak Low
- Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
- If I Ruled the World
- Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- For Once in My Life
- My Favorite Things
- Something
- My Foolish Heart
- Isn't It Romantic
- This Can't Be Love
- The Touch of Your Lips
- I Could Write a Book
- Thou Swell
- But Beautiful
- My Heart Stood Still
- Lover
- You Don't Know What Love Is
- My Romance
- Minha (All Mine)
- As Time Goes By
- Bridges (Travessia)
- Some Other Time
- Let's Begin
- Love Scene
- Caravan
- Sweet Lorraine
- Close Your Eyes
- Until I Met You
- I Get A Kick Out Of You
- Stella By Starlight
- Dancing In The Dark
- That Old Black Magic
- Crazy Rythm
- Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
- Out Of This World
- It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
- This Can't Be Love
- Blue Moon
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Lover
- Manhattan
- Spring Is Here
- Have You Met Miss Jones?
- Isn't It Romantic?
- Wait Till You See Her
- I Could Write a Book
- Thou Swell
- The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
- There's a Small Hotel
- I've Got Five Dollars
- You Took Advantage of Me
- I Wish I Were in Love Again
- This Funny World
- My Heart Stood Still
- My Romance
- Mountain Greenery
- This Can't Be Love (alternate, take 1)
- I Could Write a Book (alternate, take 2)
- Thou Swell (alternate, take 1)
- The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (alternate, take 4)
- I Wish I Were in Love Again (alternate, take 1)
- This Funny World (alternate, take 3)
- Life Is Beautiful
- All Mine
- Bridges (Travessia)
- Reflections
- Experiment
- This Funny World
- As Time Goes By
- I Used to Be Color Blind
- Lost in the Stars
- There'll Be Some Changes Made
- Cole Porter Medley: What Is This Thing Called Love / Love for Sale / You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To / Easy to Love / It's Alright With Me / Night and Day / Dream Dancing / I've Got You Under My Skin / Get Out of Town / What Is This Thing Called Love (reprise)
- There's Always Tomorrow
- One
- Mr. Magic
- I Fall in Love Too Easily
- My Baby Just Cares for Me
- My Heart Tells Me
- Old Devil Moon
- Love Letters
- My Reverie
- Give Me the Simple Life
- While the Music Plays On
- I Can't Believe That You Are in Love With Me
- Darn That Dream
- The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- Because of You
- Cold, Cold Heart
- Blue Velvet
- Rags to Riches
- Stranger in Paradise
- While the Music Plays On
- May I Never Love Again
- Sing You Sinners
- Just in Time
- Lazy Afternoon
- Ca, C'Est L'Amour
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- It Amazes Me
- Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)
- Lost in the Stars
- Lullaby of Broadway
- Firefly
- A Sleepin' Bee
- The Man That Got Away
- Skylark
- September Song
- Till
- I Won't Cry Anymore
- Silly Dreamer
- Somewhere Along the Way
- Once There Lived a Fool
- Because of You
- Sleepless
- I Can't Give You Anything but Love
- While We're Young
- I Wanna Be Loved
- Stay Where You Are
- Congratulations to Someone
- Here Comes That Heartache Again
- You Could Make Me Smile Again
- I'm Lost Again
- Beautiful Madness
- Have a Good Time
- Kiss You
- Life Is a Song
- With Plenty of Money and You
- Jeepers Creepers
- Anything Goes
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- Blue Velvet
- Rags to Riches
- Solitaire
- Because of You
- Cold, Cold Heart
- I Won't Cry Anymore
- While We're Young
- Have a Good Time
- Sing, You Sinners
- Since My Love Has Gone
- Somewhere Along the Way
- Here in My Heart
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- Anywhere I Wander
- Stranger in Paradise
- Have You Met Miss Jones?
- Blue Moon
- I Could Write a Book
- I've Got Five Dollars
- This Funny World
- Isn't It Romantic
- I Wish I Were in Love Again
- Lover
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Manhattan
- The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
- Mountain Greenery
- My Heart Stood Still
- My Romance
- This Can't Be Love
- Spring Is Here
- There's a Small Hotel
- Wait 'til You See Her
- Thou Swell
- You Took Advantage of Me
- With Plenty of Money and You
- I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans
- Growing Pains
- Life Is a Song
- Anything Goes
- Are You Havin' Any Fun
- Jeepers Creepers
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- Chicago (That Toddling Town)
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- The Second Time Around
- I Wanna Be Around
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- For Once in My Life
- (Where Do I Begin) Love Story
- Because of You
- Just One of Those Things
- Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
- It Had To Be You
- Shadow of Your Smile
- This Can't Be Love
- Blue Moon
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Lover
- Manhattan
- Spring Is Here
- Have You Met Miss Jones
- Isn't It Romantic
- Wait 'til You See Her
- I Could Write a Book
- Thou Swell
- The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
- There's a Small Hotel
- I've Got Five Dollars
- You Took Advantage of Me
- I Wish I Were in Love Again
- This Funny World
- My Heart Stood Still
- My Romance
- Mountain Greenery
- Just in Time
- When I Fall in Love
- Taking a Chance on Love
- Without a Song
- Fascinating Rhythm
- Solitude
- Pennies From Heaven
- Lost in the Stars
- Firefly
- Ther Will Never Be Another You
- Lullaby of Broadway
- Ol' Man River
- Dancing in the Dark
- When Lights Are Low
- Out of This World
- Let's Face the Music and Dance
- Solitude
- Crazy Rhythm
- Close Your Eyes
- Judy
- Love Scene
- Have You Met Miss Jones?
- While the Music Plays On
- Just One of Those Things
- Sweet Lorraine
- Danny Boy
- The Good Life
- Cold Cold Heart
- I Wanna Be Around
- Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
- I Left My Heart In San Francisco
- If I Ruled The World
- Just In Time
- Moonglow (Duet w/ k.d. lang)
- Night And Day
- This Is All I Ask
- Rags To Riches
- Smile
- Stranger In Paradise
- Last Night When We Were Young
- The Shadow Of Your Smile
- Maybe This Time
- The Very Thought Of You
- They Can't Take That Away From Me (Duet w/ Elvis Costello)
- Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
- God Bless The Child (Duet w/ Billie Holiday)
- The Good Life
- Cold, Cold Heart
- I Wanna Be Around
- Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- If I Ruled the World
- Just in Time
- Moonglow
- Night and Day
- This Is All I Ask
- Rags to Riches
- Smile
- Stranger in Paradise
- Last Night When We Were Young
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Maybe This Time
- The Very Thought of You
- They Can't Take That Away From Me (feat. Elvis Costello)
- Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
- God Bless the Child
- Chicago (That Toddling Little Town)
- Anything Goes
- Are You Havin' Any Fun
- Growing Pains
- Jeepers Creepers
- I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans
- I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
- With Plenty Of Money And You
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- Life Is A Song
- Introduction / Lullaby of Broadway
- Just in Time
- All the Things You Are
- Fascinating Rhythm
- Stranger in Paradise
- Our Love Is Here to Stay
- Love Look Away
- Climb Ev'ry Mountain
- Put on a Happy Face Comes Once in a Lifetime
- My Ship
- Speak Low
- Lost in the Stars
- Always
- Anything Goes
- Ol' Man River
- Lazy Afternoon
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- Have I Told You Lately?
- That Old Black Magic
- A Sleepin' Bee
- I've Got the World on a String
- What Good Does It Do
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- Because of You
- Cold, Cold Heart
- Rags to Riches
- One for My Baby / Had to Be You
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- I Wanna Be Around
- This Is All I Ask
- The Good Life
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
- Yesterday I Heard the Rain
- For Once in My Life
- The Good Life
- If I Love Again
- I Wanna Be Around
- I've Got Your Number
- Until I Met You
- Once Upon a Summertime
- If You Were Mine
- I Will Live My Life For You
- Someone to Love
- It Was Me
- Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
- Autumn in Rome
- The Way that I Feel
- The Moment of Truth
- Got Her Off My Hands
- 'Long About Now
- Young and Foolish
- Tricks
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was
- Bewitched (Bothered and Bewildered)
- Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me
- I'm Thru With Love
- My Funny Valentine
- The Man That Got Away
- Where or When
- A Sleepin' Bee
- Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe
- Mam'Selle
- Just Friends
- Street of Dreams
- Skylark
- Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
- Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream Your Troubles Away)
- There's a Lull in My Life
- Autumn Leaves
- I Walk a Little Faster
- The Brightest Smile in Town
- I've Never Seen
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- Listen, Little Girl
- Got the Gate on the Golden Gate
- Waltz for Debby
- The Best Thing to Be Is a Person
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- Anything Goes
- Stranger in Paradise
- Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)
- Because of You
- Rags to Richies
- Strike Up the Band
- I Wanna Be Around
- Are You Havin' Any Fun
- Lost in the Stars
- Firefly
- There Will Never Be Another You
- Lullaby of Broadway
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- With Plenty of Money and You
- Cold, Cold Heart
- Life Is a Song
- Jeepers Creepers
- Growing Pains
- I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans
- Solitude
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- Pennies From Heaven
- Just in Time
- When I Fall in Love
- Taking a Chance on Love
- Without a Song
- Fascinatin' Rhythm
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- Love for Sale
- I'm in Love Again
- You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
- Easy to Love
- It's Alright by Me
- Night and Day
- Dream Dancing
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- Get Out of Town
- What Is This Thing Called Love (reprise)
- Experiment
- One
- This Funny World
- Lost in the Stars
- As Time Goes By
- I Used to Be Color Blind
- Mr. Magic
- Chicago
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- Jeepers Creepers
- Anything Goes
- Growing Pains
- With Plenty of Money and You
- Life Is a Song
- I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans
- Are You Havin' Any Fun
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- One O'Clock Jump
- Song From the Oscar
- Girl Talk
- The Gentle Rain
- Emily
- The Pawnbroker
- Samba de Orfeu
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Smile
- The Second Time Around
- Days of Wine and Roses
- Never Too Late
- The Trolley Song
- I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans
- Chicago
- With Plenty of Money and You
- Anything Goes
- Life Is a Song
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- Jeepers Creepers
- Growing Pains
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- Are You Having Any Fun
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- I Wanna Be Around
- When Joanna Loved Me
- Who Can I Turn To
- The Good Life
- A Taste of Honey
- If I Ruled the World
- What the World Needs Now
- Fascinatin' Rhythm
- Taking a Chance on Love
- Candy Kisses
- Something
- Just in Time
- Firefly
- Put on a Happy Face
- Stranger in Paradise
- People
- For Once in My Life
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- My Favourite Things
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Something in Your Smile
- Days of Love
- Broadway Medley: Broadway / Crazy Rhythm / Lullaby of Broadway
- For Once in My Life
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- Out of This World
- Baby Dream Your Dream
- How Do You Say Auf Wiedersehen
- Keep Smiling at Trouble (Trouble's a Bubble)
- Jeepers Creepers
- Chicago
- Anything Goes
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- Life Is a Song
- With Plenty of Money and You
- I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
- Growing Pains
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- Are You Having Any Fun?
- This Can't Be Love
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans
- Chicago
- With Plenty Of Money And You
- Anything Goes
- Life Is A Song
- I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
- Jeepers Creepers
- Growing Pains
- Poor Little Rich Girl
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- Jumpin' At The Woodside
- Swinging The Blues
- Shorty George
- Dickie's Dream
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- Out Of The Window
- Broadway
- Lester Leaps In
- April In Paris
- Because Of You
- Solitaire
- Lazy Afternoon
- I Left My Heart In San Francisco
- If I Love Again
- When Joanna Loved Me
- Something In Your Smile
- Yesterday I heard the rainbow (Esta tarde vi llover)
- All My Tomorrows
- Wave
- The Very Thought of You
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- In the Middle of an Island
- Just in Time
- Young and Warm and Wonderful
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- You'll Never Get Away From Me
- The Good Life
- Taking a Chance on Love
- Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
- My Funny Valentine
- While We're Young
- Street of Dreams
- Give Me the Simple Life
- The Playground
- Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive
- Dat Dere
- Little Things (feat. Elmo)
- Put on a Happy Face
- Because We're Kids
- My Mom
- Swinging on a Star
- Bein' Green (feat. Kermit the Frog)
- Firefly (feat. Kermit the Frog)
- When You Wish Upon a Star
- (It's Only) A Paper Moon
- The Inch Worm
- The Bare Necessities
- Make the World Your Own
- Make the World Your Own (2)
- [untitled]
- Lullaby of Broadway
- Smile
- Put on a Happy Face
- The Very Thought of You
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Rags to Riches
- The Good Life
- Cold, Cold Heart
- If I Ruled the World
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- For Once in My Life
- Are You Havin' Any Fun?
- Because of You
- Just in Time
- The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- I Wanna Be Around
- Sing, You Sinners
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- How Do You Keep the Music Playing?
- Stranger in Paradise
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- I Wanna Be Loved
- Just Say I Love Her
- Sin You Sinners
- Kiss You
- I Won't Cry Anymore
- Because of You
- Cold Cold Heart
- While Were Young
- Since My Love Has Gone
- Blue Velvet
- Solitaire
- Somewhere Along the Way
- Here in My Heart
- Have a Good Time
- Congratulations to Someone
- Anywhere I Wander
- Stay Where You Are
- Take Me
- I'm the King of Broken Hearts
- Rags to Riches
- Until Yesterday
- Please Driver Once Around the Park Again
- There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
- My Heart Won't Say Goodbye
- La Vie en Rose
- Fly Me to the Moon
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- The Way You Look Tonight
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Moonglow
- It Had to Be You
- Stormy Weather
- What a Wonderful World
- For Once in My Life
- People
- Night and Day
- What a Difference a Day Makes
- Let the Good Times Roll
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- Stranger in Paradise
- I Had to Be You
- People
- Tender Is the Night
- Smile
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Stella by Starlight
- Lullaby of Broadway
- Dancing in the Dark
- The Look of Love
- Little Green Apples
- Days of Wine and Rose
- The Say It's Wonderful
- For Once in My Life
- A Weaver of Dreams
- How Do You Keep the Music Playing
- Just Friends
- (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco
- Once Upon a Time
- Tender Is the Night
- Smile
- Love for Sale
- Taking a Chance on Love
- Candy Kisses
- Have I Told You Lately?
- The Rules of the Road
- Marry Young
- I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- The Good Life
- If I Love Again
- I Wanna Be Around
- Love, Look Away
- Until I Met You
- Let's Face the Music and Dance
- Once Upon a Summertime
- If You Were Mine
- I Will Live My Life for You
- Someone to Love
- It Was Me
- Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
- Let's Begin
- Lullaby of Broadway
- Let There Be Love
- Love for Sale
- Crazy Rhythm
- The Beat of My Heart
- So Beats My Heart for You
- Blues in the Night
- Lazy Afternoon
- Let's Face the Music and Dance
- Just One of Those Things
- It's So Peaceful in the Country
- In Sandy's Eyes
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- You Go to My Head
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Begin the Beguine
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- Anything Goes
- Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)
- When I Fall in Love
- Are You Havin' Any Fun
- Solitude
- Strike Up the Band
- Without a Song
- Firefly
- There Will Never Be Another You
- Jeepers Creepers
- Life Is a Song
- Pennies From Heaven
- I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- Lullaby of Broadway
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Tony Bennett 1963 The Good Life
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- Duration: 2:13
- Published: 13 Apr 2007
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
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Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse - Body And Soul
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- Duration: 3:22
- Published: 14 Sep 2011
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Music video by Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse performing Body And Soul. (C) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
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Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga - The Lady Is A Tramp
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- Duration: 3:21
- Published: 03 Oct 2011
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Music video by Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga performing The Lady Is A Tramp. (C) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
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Tony Bennett - I left my heart in San Francisco
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- Duration: 2:46
- Published: 14 Jan 2007
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Union Bank of California promo. Beautifully danced by Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu. SF own local halau, lend their talking hands to the story of the city by the bay. I recently had contact with the director, Jim Yager, and he provided some background on this amazing work of art. Jim: "It was inspired when I saw Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu perform their choreography of this song at KQED for an event. It was one of those lightning strike moments when I saw the whole film produced in my mind's eye as they were dancing gracefully in front of a black curtain. It was just plain serendipity ..." "We filmed Hula SF just a few weeks after 9/11 in 2001. We had been making production plans since mid-summer, and had delayed the production a couple of times as their was so much fear and uncertainty in the air here in the city. We finally spent two days with the dancers in all the locations you see in the video in early October, and I will never forget the response from those watching along the sidelines as we filmed. Tears of joy filled their eyes as Mr Bennett's song permeated the air, and the dancers swayed and told the story with their hands. It was a great emotional release for all of us, I think, and a reminder that their was still simple beauty and romance in a world that had been so tilted off its axis. It was one of those pure experiences I will never ever forget. I figured it would air for a few months on KQED and then be forgotten. Amazingly, it's been on their air nearly every day in <b>...</b>
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Tony Bennett and Stevie Wonder - For Once in my life live
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- Duration: 3:17
- Published: 10 Dec 2006
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Clip of Stevie Wonder and Tony Bennett on "Tony Bennett's American Classic." Awesome performance!! Best Duet ever. Very moving.
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Tony Bennett: "The Way You Look Tonight"
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- Duration: 6:04
- Published: 02 Jan 2009
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Tony Bennett sings "The Way You Look Tonight" accompanied by Bill Charlap on Elvis Costello's Spectacle, 1231/ 08
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I Left My Heart In San Francisco (composed in 1954 by Douglass Cross & George Cory) - Tony Bennett
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- Duration: 2:05
- Published: 03 Mar 2010
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
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- Duration: 3:01
- Published: 14 Jun 2007
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Tony Bennett & Judy Garland
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Tony Bennett - For Once In My Life (Mar. 1968)
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- Duration: 2:47
- Published: 04 Oct 2007
- Updated: 08 Oct 2012
Tony Bennett singing his hits For Once In My Life @ the Dean Martin Show on March 1968. This video are tributes to all the wonderful crooners like Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra and of course Dean Martin. Enjoy the show peeps.
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Tony Bennett & Andrea Bocelli - Stranger In Paradise
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- Duration: 5:01
- Published: 12 Sep 2011
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Music video by Tony Bennett & Andrea Bocelli performing Stranger In Paradise. (C) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
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Tony Bennett - The Best Is Yet To Come
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- Duration: 2:16
- Published: 28 Apr 2007
- Updated: 02 Oct 2012
Tony Bennett performes on the Imus in the Morning program.
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Tony Bennett duet with Marc Anthony - For Once In My Life
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- Duration: 3:15
- Published: 26 Sep 2012
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Music video by Tony Bennett duet with Marc Anthony performing For Once In My Life. (C) 2012 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment
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Tony Bennett - Cold Cold Heart
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- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 28 Apr 2007
- Updated: 02 Oct 2012
Tony Bennett performs on the Imus in the morning program from 2006.
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Tony Bennett on recording with Amy Winehouse for his new album of duets
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- Duration: 3:56
- Published: 11 Jul 2011
- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
The 84-year old singer announces a date at the London Palladium and reveals more about his collaborators on new album, Duets II
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Tony Bennett - Live 2000 UK - I Wanna Be Around and I Left My Heart In San Francisco.
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- Duration: 5:59
- Published: 23 May 2009
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
The very Dynamic Tony Bennett sings "I Wanna Be Around" and "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" for the BBC, live at Leeds Castle in Kent, Southern England.
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Tony Bennett "Where Do I Begin" ( Love Story )
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- Duration: 3:08
- Published: 09 Apr 2008
- Updated: 08 Oct 2012
Tony Bennett at his best..!!! "(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story" is a popular song published in 1970, with music by Francis Lai and lyrics by Carl Sigman. The song was introduced in the movie Love Story. The song has been covered many times. Andy Williams recorded the biggest hit version (#9 on the US pop chart, #1 on the adult contemporary chart for four weeks). The song would also be recorded successfully by Lai himself with a full orchestra, and by Henry Mancini (US #13), Tony Bennett, Rick Astley, Johnny Mathis, Shirley Bassey, and Nana Mouskouri. Williams performed the song with Miss Piggy in an episode of The Muppet Show. There is also a Romanian cover of this song, by Aurelian Andreescu, as well as a French one by Mireille Mathieu.
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Tony Bennett - 'The Gentle Rain'
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- Duration: 2:20
- Published: 14 May 2009
- Updated: 05 Oct 2012
"The Gentle Rain" by Luiz Bonfa/Matt Dubey became an international hit thanks to efforts by Tony Bennett and others in the middle 1960's. Lyrics to... The Gentle Rain by (Matt Dubey/Luiz Bonfa) We both are lost and alone in the world, Walk with me in the gentle rain. Don't be afraid; I've a hand for your hand, and I will be your love for a while. I feel your tears as they fall on my cheek; they are warm in the gentle rain. Don't be afraid; I've a hand for your hand, And our love will be sweet, will be sad, Very sweet like the gentle rain, like the gentle rain, Like the gentle rain, gentle rain, gentle rain, gentle rain (Matt Dubey/Luiz Bonfa)
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Tony Bennett & Alejandro Sanz - Yesterday I Heard The Rain
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- Duration: 3:45
- Published: 01 Sep 2011
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Music video by Tony Bennett & Alejandro Sanz performing Yesterday I Heard The Rain. (C) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
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TONY BENNETT - COLD, COLD HEART 1951
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- Duration: 2:38
- Published: 29 Jan 2011
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
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Tony Bennett, Norah Jones - Speak Low
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- Duration: 3:55
- Published: 31 Aug 2011
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Music video by Tony Bennett & Norah Jones performing Speak Low. (C) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
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Tony Bennett Somewhere Over The Rainbow
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- Duration: 3:23
- Published: 26 Sep 2006
- Updated: 07 Oct 2012
Bennett performs Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Leeds 29.05.2005
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Tony Bennett sings "I'm Just A Lucky So And So" 17.12.1999
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- Duration: 3:20
- Published: 18 Jan 2007
- Updated: 24 Sep 2012
Tony Bennett and the Ralph Sharon quartet perfoming the Duke Ellington song "I'm Just A Lucky So And So".
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Tony Bennett's "I wanna be around"
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- Duration: 2:15
- Published: 16 Aug 2009
- Updated: 07 Oct 2012
Tony Bennett's "I wanna be around" set to images of the New York skyline.
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06 Oct 2012
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Tony Bennett was born Anthony Benedetto, and Benedetto, in Italian, means âblessed.â You could say he is living up to his name. At 86, Bennett, who is performing tonight at the Seneca Niagara Casino, just keeps on singing. He is healthy and fit. Pop stars, led by Lady Gaga, idolize him. To top...(size: 4.9Kb)
Exploring the Arts Gala Hosted By Tony Bennett And Susan Benedetto Raises Over $1.2M For ...
05 Oct 2012
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Katie Couric Hosted Gala Program which Featured Performances by Sting and Tony Bennett Held Tonight in NYC NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tony Bennett and his wife Susan Benedetto, hosted a gala event for Exploring the Arts tonight which raised over $1.2M for arts education in NYC...(size: 8.4Kb)
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Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett to record album
02 Oct 2012
Gulf News
Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett are making a jazz album together. The pop star and the crooner are reportedly set to collaborate on a big-band full length album, singing songs by a “very underrated, very famous” jazz songwriter. “Of all things, she called me from New Zealand and said,...(size: 18.9Kb)
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Lady Gaga will put down her queen of pop crown for a bit and wear a new hat. The star will team up with past collaborator Tony Bennett to record an entire album of jazz songs. The two first paired up for Bennett’s 2011 Duets II album, but Gaga wanted to do more so she [...] Tags: album, lady...(size: 15.2Kb)
Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett to record jazz album
01 Oct 2012
The Guardian
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Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga to record Jazz album
30 Sep 2012
Music News
Last year, Tony Bennett recorded the song The Lady is a Tramp with Lady Gaga for his album Duets II. The two hit if off famously both musically and personally and that friendship is about to spawn a brand new project....(size: 1.5Kb)
Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett Planning Jazz Album
30 Sep 2012
The Inquisitr
Posted: September 29, 2012 As a followup to their cover of “The Lady is a Tramp,” Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett are planning to do a jazz album together, Rolling Stone reports. The pair first collaborated on the Rodgers and Hart song for Bennett’s 2011 album Duets II. Gaga was...(size: 7.6Kb)
This article is about the singer. For the coach, see Tony Bennett (basketball). For other uses, see Anthony Bennett (disambiguation).
| Tony Bennett | |
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 Tony Bennett performing in 2003 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Anthony Dominick Benedetto |
| Born | (1926-08-03) August 3, 1926 (age 85) Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, United States |
| Genres | Traditional pop Jazz |
| Occupations | Singer |
| Years active | 1949–present |
| Labels | Columbia MGM Improv Legacy Recordings |
| Website | Official website |
Anthony Dominick Benedetto, better known as Tony Bennett (born August 3, 1926), is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett is also a serious and accomplished painter, having created works — under the name Benedetto — that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in New York City.
Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age. He fought in the final stages of World War II as an infantryman with the U.S. Army in the European Theatre. Afterwards, he developed his singing technique, signed with Columbia Records, and had his first number one popular song with "Because of You" in 1951. Several top hits such as "Rags to Riches" followed in the early 1950s. Bennett then further refined his approach to encompass jazz singing. He reached an artistic peak in the late 1950s with albums such as The Beat of My Heart and Basie Swings, Bennett Sings. In 1962, Bennett recorded his signature song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". His career and his personal life then suffered an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era.
Bennett staged a remarkable comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s, putting out gold record albums again and expanding his audience to the MTV Generation while keeping his musical style intact. He remains a popular and critically praised recording artist and concert performer in the 2010s. Bennett has won 17 Grammy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award, presented in 2001) and two Emmy Awards, and has been named an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree. He has sold over 50 million records worldwide.
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Early life[link]
Anthony Benedetto was born in Astoria, Queens, New York City, one of three children of Anna (née Suraci) and John Benedetto.[1] His father was a grocer who in 1906 had emigrated from Podàrgoni, a rural eastern district of the southern Italian city of Reggio Calabria, and his mother was a seamstress who had been born in the U.S. shortly after her parents also emigrated from the Calabria region in 1899.[1] Other relatives came over as well as part of the mass migration of Italians to America.[1] With a father who was ailing and unable to work, Anthony, older brother John Jr., and younger sister Mary grew up in poverty.[2] John Benedetto Sr. instilled in his son a love of art and literature and a compassion for human suffering,[3] but died when Anthony was 10 years old.[2] The experience of growing up in the Great Depression and a distaste for the effects of the Hoover Administration would make the child a lifelong Democrat.[4]
Young "Tony" Benedetto grew up listening to Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Judy Garland and Bing Crosby as well as jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden and Joe Venuti. His Uncle Dick was a tap dancer in vaudeville, giving him an early window into show business,[5] and his Uncle Frank was the Queens borough library commissioner.[6] By age 10 he was already singing, and performed at the opening of the Triborough Bridge,[7] standing next to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia who patted him on the head.[6] Drawing was another early passion of his;[2] he became known as the class caricaturist at P.S. 141 and anticipated a career in commercial art.[8] He began singing for money at age 13, performing as a singing waiter in several Italian restaurants around his native Queens.[8][9]
He attended New York's High School of Industrial Art where he studied painting and music[10] and would later appreciate their emphasis on proper technique.[11] But he dropped out at age 16 to help support his family.[12] He worked as a copy boy and runner for the Associated Press in Manhattan[13][14] and in several other low-skilled, low-paying jobs.[15] But mostly he set his sights on a professional singing career, returning to performing as a singing waiter, playing and winning amateur nights all around the city, and having a successful engagement at a Paramus, New Jersey nightclub.[9][15]
World War II and after[link]
Benedetto was drafted into the United States Army in November 1944, during the final stages of World War II.[2][16] He did basic training at Fort Dix and Fort Robinson as part of becoming an infantry rifleman.[17] Benedetto ran afoul of a sergeant from the South who disliked the Italian from New York City and heavy doses of KP duty or BAR cleaning resulted.[17] Processed through the huge Le Havre replacement depot, in January 1945, he was assigned as a replacement infantryman to the 255th Infantry Regiment of the 63rd Infantry Division, a unit filling in for the heavy losses suffered in the Battle of the Bulge.[18] He moved across France, and later, into Germany.[2] As March 1945 began, he joined the front line and what he would later describe as a "front-row seat in hell."[18]
As the German Army was pushed back to their homeland, Benedetto and his company saw bitter fighting in cold winter conditions, often hunkering down in foxholes as German 88 mm guns fired on them.[19] At the end of March, they crossed the Rhine and entered Germany, engaging in dangerous house-to-house, town-after-town fighting to clean out German soldiers;[19] during the first week of April, they crossed the Kocher River, and by the end of the month reached the Danube.[20] During his time in combat, Benedetto narrowly escaped death several times.[2] The experience made him a pacifist;[2] he would later write, "Anybody who thinks that war is romantic obviously hasn't gone through one,"[18] and later say, "It was a nightmare that's permanent. I just said, 'This is not life. This is not life.'"[21] At the war's conclusion he was involved in the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp near Landsberg,[2] where some American prisoners of war from the 63rd Division had also been held.[20]
Benedetto stayed in Germany as part of the occupying force, but was assigned to an informal Special Services band unit that would entertain nearby American forces.[2] His dining with a black friend from high school – at a time when the Army was still racially segregated – led to his being demoted and reassigned to Graves Registration Service duties.[22] Subsequently, he sang with the 314th Army Special Services Band under the stage name Joe Bari[23] (a name he had started using before the war, chosen after the city and province in Italy and as a partial anagram of his family origins in Calabria).[24] He played with many musicians who would have post-war careers.[23]
Upon his discharge from the Army and return to the States in 1946, Benedetto studied at the American Theatre Wing on the GI Bill.[7] He was taught the bel canto singing discipline,[25] which would keep his voice in good shape for his entire career. He continued to perform wherever he could, including while waiting tables.[2] Based upon a suggestion from a teacher at American Theatre Wing, he developed an unusual approach that involved imitating, as he sang, the style and phrasing of other musicians — such as that of Stan Getz's saxophone and Art Tatum's piano — helping him to improvise as he interpreted a song.[12][26] He made a few recordings as Bari in 1949 for small Leslie Records, but they failed to sell.[27]
In 1949, Pearl Bailey recognized Benedetto's talent and asked him to open for her in Greenwich Village.[9] She had invited Bob Hope to the show. Hope decided to take Benedetto on the road with him, and simplified his name to Tony Bennett.[27] In 1950, Bennett cut a demo of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and was signed to the major Columbia Records label by Mitch Miller.[7]
First successes[link]
Warned by Miller not to imitate Frank Sinatra[5] (who was just then leaving Columbia), Bennett began his career as a crooner singing commercial pop tunes. His first big hit was "Because of You", a ballad produced by Miller with a lush orchestral arrangement from Percy Faith. It started out gaining popularity on jukeboxes, then reached #1 on the pop charts in 1951 and stayed there for 10 weeks,[28] selling over a million copies.[27] This was followed to the top of the charts later that year[28] by a similarly-styled rendition of Hank Williams's "Cold, Cold Heart", which helped introduce Williams and country music in general to a wider, more national audience.[29] The Miller and Faith tandem continued to work on all of Bennett's early hits. Bennett's recording of "Blue Velvet" was also very popular and attracted screaming teenaged fans at concerts at the famed Paramount Theater in New York (Bennett did seven shows a day, starting at 10:30 a.m.)[30] and elsewhere.
A third #1 came in 1953 with "Rags to Riches". Unlike Bennett's other early hits, this was an up-tempo big band number with a bold, brassy sound and a double tango in the instrumental break; it topped the charts for eight weeks.[28] Later that year the producers of the upcoming Broadway musical Kismet had Bennett record "Stranger in Paradise" as a way of promoting the show during a New York newspaper strike.[31] The song reached the top, the show was a hit, and Bennett began a long practice of recording show tunes.[31] "Stranger in Paradise" was also a #1 hit in the United Kingdom a year and a half later[32] and started Bennett's career as an international artist.
Once the rock and roll era began in 1955, the dynamic of the music industry changed and it became harder and harder for existing pop singers to do well commercially.[7] Nevertheless, Bennett continued to enjoy success, placing eight songs in the Billboard Top 40 during the latter part of the 1950s, with "In the Middle of an Island" reaching the highest at #9 in 1957.[33]
For a month in August–September 1956, Bennett hosted a NBC Saturday night television variety show, called The Tony Bennett Show, as a summer replacement for The Perry Como Show.[34] Patti Page and Julius La Rosa had in turn hosted the two previous months, and they all shared the same singers, dancers, and orchestra.[34] In 1959, Bennett would again fill in for The Perry Como Show, this time alongside Teresa Brewer and Jaye P. Morgan as co-hosts of the summer-long Perry Presents.[35]
A growing artistry[link]
In 1954, the guitarist Chuck Wayne became Bennett's musical director.[36] Bennett released his first long-playing album in 1955, Cloud 7. The album was billed as featuring Wayne and showed Benett's leanings towards jazz. In 1957, Ralph Sharon became Bennett's pianist and musical director,[37] replacing Wayne. Sharon told Bennett that a career singing "sweet saccharine songs like 'Blue Velvet'" wouldn't last long, and encouraged Bennett to focus even more on his jazz inclinations.[5]
The result was the 1957 album The Beat of My Heart. It used well-known jazz musicians such as Herbie Mann and Nat Adderley, with a strong emphasis on percussion from the likes of Art Blakey, Jo Jones, Latin star Candido Camero, and Chico Hamilton. The album was both popular and critically praised.[5][38] Bennett followed this by working with the Count Basie Orchestra, becoming the first male pop vocalist to sing with Basie's band.[5] The albums Basie Swings, Bennett Sings (1958) and In Person! (1959) were the well-regarded fruits of this collaboration, with "Chicago" being one of the standout songs.[5][7]
Bennett also built up the quality, and therefore, the reputation of his nightclub act; in this he was following the path of Sinatra and other top jazz and standards singers of this era.[7] In June 1962, Bennett staged a highly-promoted concert performance at Carnegie Hall, using a stellar line-up of musicians including Al Cohn, Kenny Burrell, and Candido, as well as the Ralph Sharon Trio. The concert featured 44 songs, including favorites like "I've Got the World on a String" and "The Best Is Yet To Come". It was a big success, further cementing Bennett's reputation as a star both at home and abroad.[5][39] Bennett also appeared on television, and in October 1962 he sang on the first night of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.[40]
Also in 1962, Bennett released the song "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". Although this reached only #19 on the Billboard Hot 100,[33] it spent close to a year on various other charts and increased Bennett's exposure.[7][39] The album of the same title was a top 5 hit and both the single and album achieved gold record status.[7] The song won Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best Male Solo Vocal Performance. Over the years, this would become known as Bennett's signature song.[10][25] In 2001, it was ranked 23rd on an RIAA/NEA list of the most historically significant Songs of the 20th Century.
"For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more."
Bennett's following album, I Wanna Be Around (1963), was also a top-5 success,[7] with the title track and "The Good Life" each reaching the top 20 of the pop singles chart[33] along with the top 10 of the Adult Contemporary chart.[41]
The next year brought The Beatles and the British Invasion, and with them still more musical and cultural attention to rock and less to pop, standards, and jazz. Over the next couple of years Bennett had minor hits with several albums and singles based on show tunes – his last top-40 single was the #34 "If I Ruled the World" from Pickwick in 1965[33] – but his commercial fortunes were clearly starting to decline. An attempt to break into acting with a role in the poorly received 1966 film The Oscar met with middling reviews for Bennett; he did not enjoy the experience and did not seek further roles.[42][43]
A firm believer in the American Civil Rights movement,[25] Bennett participated in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.[44] Years later he would continue this commitment by refusing to perform in apartheid South Africa.[10]
Years of struggle[link]
Ralph Sharon and Bennett parted ways in 1965.[37] There was great pressure on singers such as Lena Horne and Barbra Streisand to record "contemporary" rock songs, and in this vein Columbia Records' Clive Davis suggested that Bennett do the same.[7] Bennett was very reluctant, and when he tried, the results pleased no one. This was exemplified by Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today! (1970),[7] before which Bennett became physically ill at the thought of recording.[45] It featured misguided attempts at Beatles and other current songs and a ludicrous psychedelic art cover.[45][46]
Years later Bennett would recall his dismay at being asked to do contemporary material, comparing it to when his mother was forced to produce a cheap dress.[47] By 1972, he had departed Columbia for the Verve division of MGM Records (Philips in the UK) and had relocated for a stint in London, where he hosted a television show from the Talk of the Town nightclub in conjunction with Thames Television, Tony Bennett from the Talk of the Town.[48][49][50] With his new label he tried a variety of approaches, including some more Beatles material, but found no renewed commercial success, and in a couple more years he was without a recording contract.[7][51]
Taking matters into his own hands, Bennett started his own record company, Improv.[7] He cut some songs that would later become favorites, such as "What is This Thing Called Love?", and made two well-regarded albums with jazz pianist Bill Evans, The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album (1975) and Together Again (1976),[39] but Improv lacked a distribution arrangement with a major label and by 1977, it was out of business.[7][52]
As the decade neared its end, Bennett had no recording contract, no manager, and was not performing many concerts outside of Las Vegas.[12] His second marriage was failing (they would completely separate in 1979, but not officially divorce until 2007).[53] He had developed a drug addiction, was living beyond his means, and had the Internal Revenue Service trying to seize his Los Angeles home.[12][52]
Turnaround[link]
After a near-fatal cocaine overdose in 1979, Bennett called his sons Danny and Dae for help. "Look, I'm lost here," he told them. "It seems like people don't want to hear the music I make."[12]
Danny Bennett, an aspiring musician himself, also came to a realization. The band Danny and his brother had started, Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends, had foundered and Danny's musical abilities were limited. However, he had discovered during this time that he did have a head for business. His father, on the other hand, had tremendous musical talent but was having trouble sustaining a career from it and had little financial sense. Danny signed on as his father's manager.[52]
Danny got his father's expenses under control, moved him back to New York, and began booking him in colleges and small theaters to get him away from a "Vegas" image.[12][52] After some effort, a successful plan to pay back the IRS debt was put into place.[52] In 1979, Tony Bennett had also reunited with Ralph Sharon as his pianist and musical director.[37] By 1986, Tony Bennett was re-signed to Columbia Records, this time with creative control, and released The Art of Excellence. This became his first album to reach the charts since 1972.[7]
An unexpected audience[link]
Danny Bennett felt that younger audiences who were unfamiliar with Tony Bennett would respond to his music if given a chance.[54] No changes to Tony's formal appearance, singing style, musical accompaniment (The Ralph Sharon Trio or an orchestra), or song choice (generally the Great American Songbook) were necessary or desirable.[7][55] Accordingly, Danny began regularly to book his father on Late Night with David Letterman, a show with a younger, hip audience.[54] This was subsequently followed by appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Simpsons, Muppets Tonight, and various MTV programs.[10][12] In 1993, Bennett played a series of benefit concerts organized by alternative rock radio stations around the country.[54] The plan worked; as Tony later remembered, "I realized that young people had never heard those songs. Cole Porter, Gershwin – they were like, 'Who wrote that?' To them, it was different. If you're different, you stand out."[12]
During this time, Bennett continued to record, first putting out the acclaimed look back Astoria: Portrait of the Artist (1990), then emphasizing themed albums such as the Sinatra homage Perfectly Frank (1992) and the Fred Astaire tribute Steppin' Out (1993). The latter two both achieved gold status and won Grammys for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance (Bennett's first Grammys since 1962) and further established Bennett as the inheritor of the mantle of a classic American great.[54]
As Bennett was seen at MTV Video Music Awards shows side-by-side with the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Flavor Flav, and as his "Steppin' Out With My Baby" video received MTV airplay,[54] it was clear that, as The New York Times said, "Tony Bennett has not just bridged the generation gap, he has demolished it. He has solidly connected with a younger crowd weaned on rock. And there have been no compromises."[56]
The new audience reached its height with Bennett's appearance in 1994 on MTV Unplugged.[52] (He quipped famously on the show, "I've been unplugged my whole career.") Featuring guest appearances by rock and country stars Elvis Costello and k.d. lang (both of whom had an affinity for the standards genre), the show attracted a considerable audience and much media attention.[54] The resulting MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett album went platinum and, besides taking the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Grammy award for the third straight year, also won the top Grammy prize of Album of the Year.[5][57] At age 68, Tony Bennett had come all the way back.
Painting[link]
Tony Bennett's career as a painter, done under his real surname of Benedetto, has also flourished.[58][59] He followed up his childhood interest with serious training, work, and museum visits throughout his life. He sketches or paints every day, even of views out of hotel windows when he is on tour.[57]
He has exhibited his work in numerous galleries around the world.[57] He was chosen as the official artist for the 2001 Kentucky Derby, and was commissioned by the United Nations to do two paintings, including one for their 50th anniversary.[57] His painting "Homage to Hockney" (for his friend David Hockney, painted after Hockney drew him) is on permanent display at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio.[58] His "Boy on Sailboat, Sydney Bay" is in the permanent collection at the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park in New York, as is his "Central Park" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.[57] His paintings and drawings have been featured in ARTnews and other magazines, and sell for as much as $80,000 apiece.[10][52] Many of his works were published in the art book Tony Bennett: What My Heart Has Seen in 1996. In 2007, another book involving his paintings, Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music, became a best-seller among art books.[30]
No retirement[link]
Since his comeback, Bennett has financially prospered; by 1999, his assets were worth $15 to 20 million.[52] He had no intention of retiring, saying "If you study the masters – Picasso, Jack Benny, Fred Astaire – right up to the day they died, they were performing. If you are creative, you get busier as you get older."[52] Indeed, Bennett has continued to record and tour steadily, doing 100 to 200 shows a year.[10][52] In concert Bennett often makes a point of singing one song (usually "Fly Me to the Moon") without any microphone or amplification, demonstrating his skills at vocal projection.[55][60][61] One show, Tony Bennett's Wonderful World: Live From San Francisco, was made into a PBS special. Bennett also created the idea behind, and starred in the first episode of, the A&E Network's popular Live By Request series, for which he won an Emmy Award.[52][57] In addition to numerous television guest performances, Bennett has had cameo appearances as himself in films such as The Scout, Analyze This, and Bruce Almighty. In 1998 he made an unlikely but successful appearance at a mud-soaked Glastonbury in an immaculate white suit and tie.[62] Bennett also published The Good Life: The Autobiography of Tony Bennett in 1998.[57]
A series of albums, often based on themes (such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, blues, or duets), has met with good acceptance; Bennett has won eight more Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance or Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Grammys in the subsequent years, most recently for the year 2011. Bennett has sold over 50 million records worldwide during his career.[57]
Accolades came to Bennett. For his contribution to the recording industry, Tony Bennett was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street.[63] Bennett was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1997, was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001, and received a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) in 2002.[64] In 2002, Q magazine named Tony Bennett in their list of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die".[65] On December 4, 2005, Bennett was the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor.[57] Later, a theatrical musical revue of his songs, called I Left My Heart: A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett was created and featured some of his best-known songs such as "I Left My Heart in San Francisco", "Because of You", and "Wonderful".[66] The following year, Bennett was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.[67]
Bennett frequently donates his time to charitable causes, to the extent that he is sometimes nicknamed "Tony Benefit".[68] In April 2002, he joined Michael Jackson, Chris Tucker and former President Bill Clinton in a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee at New York's Apollo Theater.[69] He has also recorded public service announcements for Civitan International.[70] Bennett and Susan Crow founded Exploring the Arts, a charitable organization dedicated to creating, promoting, and supporting arts education. At the same time they founded (and named after Bennett's friend) the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens, a public high school dedicated to teaching the performing arts, which opened in 2001 and would have a very high graduation rate.[2]
Danny Bennett continues to be Tony's manager while Dae Bennett is a recording engineer who has worked on a number of Tony's projects and who has opened Bennett Studios in Englewood, New Jersey. Tony's younger daughter Antonia is an aspiring jazz singer.[12]
In August 2006, Bennett turned eighty years old. The birthday itself was an occasion for publicity, which then extended through the rest of the following year. Duets: An American Classic reached the highest place ever on the albums chart for an album by Bennett[7] and garnered two Grammy Awards; concerts were given, including a high-profile one for New York radio station WLTW-FM; a performance was done with Christina Aguilera and a comedy sketch was made with affectionate Bennett impressionist Alec Baldwin on Saturday Night Live; a Thanksgiving-time, Rob Marshall-directed television special Tony Bennett: An American Classic on NBC, which would win multiple Emmy Awards;[30] receipt of the Billboard Century Award;[57] and guest-mentoring on American Idol season 6 as well as performing during its finale. He received the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' Humanitarian Award. Bennett was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award in 2006,[57] the highest honor that the United States bestows upon jazz musicians.
The year 2008 saw Bennett making two appearances on "New York State of Mind" with Billy Joel at the final concerts given at Shea Stadium, and in October releasing the album A Swingin' Christmas with The Count Basie Big Band, for which he made a number of promotional appearances at holiday time. In 2009, Bennett performed at the conclusion of the final Macworld Conference & Expo for Apple Inc., singing the "The Best Is Yet to Come" and "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" to a standing ovation,[71][72] and later making his Jazz Fest debut in New Orleans.[73] In February 2010, Bennett was one of over 70 artists singing on "We Are the World: 25 for Haiti", a charity single in aid of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[74] In October he performed "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" at AT&T Park before the third inning of Game 1 of the 2010 World Series and sang "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch. Days later he sang "America the Beautiful" at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington, D.C.
Regarding his choices in music, Bennett reiterated his artistic stance in a 2010 interview:
- "I'm not staying contemporary for the big record companies, I don't follow the latest fashions. I never sing a song that's badly written. In the 1920s and '30s, there was a renaissance in music that was the equivalent of the artistic Renaissance. Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and others just created the best songs that had ever been written. These are classics, and finally they're not being treated as light entertainment. This is classical music."[75]
In September 2011, Bennett appeared on The Howard Stern Show and named American military actions in the Middle East as the root cause of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.[21] He stated, "To start a war in Iraq was a tremendous, tremendous mistake internationally", before asking, "But who are the terrorists? Are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists? Two wrongs don’t make a right." He disagreed with Stern's premise that the 9/11 attacks led to U.S. military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying, "They flew the plane in, but we caused it."[76] Bennett also claimed that former President George W. Bush personally told him at the Kennedy Center in December 2005 that he felt he had made a mistake invading Iraq, to which a Bush spokesperson replied, "This account is flatly wrong."[77] Following bad press resulting from his remarks, Bennett clarified his position, writing: "There is simply no excuse for terrorism and the murder of the nearly 3,000 innocent victims of the 9/11 attacks on our country. My life experiences, ranging from the Battle of the Bulge to marching with Martin Luther King, made me a life-long humanist and pacifist, and reinforced my belief that violence begets violence and that war is the lowest form of human behavior."[78]
In September 2011, Bennett released Duets II, a follow-up to his first collaboration album, in conjunction with his 85th birthday. The album's pairing with Amy Winehouse on "Body and Soul" — reportedly the last recording she made before her death[79] — charted on the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100, making Bennett the oldest living artist to appear there, as well as the artist with the greatest span of appearances.[80] The single did well in Europe, where it reached the top 15 in several countries. The album then debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, making Bennett the oldest living artist to reach that top spot, as well as marking the first time he had reached it himself.[81] A model of Koss headphones, the Tony Bennett Signature Edition (TBSE1), was created for this milestone[82] (Bennett having been one of the early adopters of the Koss product back in the 1960s).[83] In November 2011, Columbia released Tony Bennett – The Complete Collection, a 73 CD plus 3 DVD set, which although not absolutely "complete", finally brought forth many albums that had not had a previous CD release, as well as some unreleased material and rarities.[49][84] In December 2011, Bennett appeared at the Royal Variety Performance in Salford in the presence of HRH Princess Anne.[85] In the wake of the premature deaths of Winehouse and Whitney Houston, Bennett called for the legalization of drugs in February 2012.[86]
Personal life[link]
On February 12, 1952,[87] Bennett married Ohio art student and jazz fan Patricia Beech, whom he had met the previous year after a nightclub performance in Cleveland.[27] Two thousand female fans dressed in black gathered outside the ceremony at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral in mock mourning.[10] Bennett and Beech had two sons, D'Andrea (Danny, born around 1954) and Daegal (Dae, born around 1955).[88] They separated in 1965, their marriage a victim of Bennett's spending too much time on the road, among other factors.[10] In 1971, their divorce became official. Bennett became involved with aspiring actress Sandra Grant while filming The Oscar in 1965, and on December 29, 1971 they married.[87][88] They had two daughters, Joanna (born around 1969) and Antonia (born 1974), and moved to Los Angeles.[88]
In the late 1980s, Bennett entered into a long-term romantic relationship with Susan Crow (born 1966),[89] a former New York City schoolteacher.[12][90] On June 21, 2007, Bennett married Susan in a private civil ceremony in New York that was witnessed by former Governor Mario Cuomo.[90][91]
Awards and recognition[link]
Bennett has won sixteen Grammy Awards and has also received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award,[92][93] as follows (years shown are the year in which the ceremony was held and the award was given, not the year in which the recording was released):
- Best Solo Vocal Performance, Male, 1963, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
- Record of the Year, 1963, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, 1993, Perfectly Frank
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, 1994, Steppin' Out
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, 1995, MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett
- Album of the Year, 1995, MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, 1997, Here's to the Ladies
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, 1998, Tony Bennett on Holiday
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, 2000, Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool
- Lifetime Achievement Award, 2001
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, 2003, Playing with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, 2004, A Wonderful World (with k.d. lang)
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, 2006, The Art of Romance
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, 2007, Duets: An American Classic
- Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, 2007, "For Once in My Life" (with Stevie Wonder)
- Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, 2012, "Body and Soul" (with Amy Winehouse)
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, 2012, Duets II
Bennett has won two Emmy Awards,[94] as follows (years shown are the year in which the ceremony was held and the award was given, not the year in which the program aired):
- Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, 1996, Live by Request
- Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, 2007, Tony Bennett: An American Classic
Bennett has gained other notable recognition:
- New York City's Bronze Medallion, 1969
- Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[63]
- Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame, 1997
- Lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, 2002[64]
- Kennedy Center Honoree, 2005[57]
- Inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame[67]
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Humanitarian Award, 2006
- National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award, 2006[57]
- Received honorary doctorate from the Cleveland Institute of Music, 2010
- Inducted into New Jersey Hall of Fame, 2011[95]
Works[link]
Discography[link]
Main article: Tony Bennett discography
Bennett has released over 70 albums during his career, with almost all being for Columbia Records. The biggest selling of these in the U.S. have been I Left My Heart in San Francisco, MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett, and Duets: An American Classic, all of which went platinum for shipping one million copies.[96] Eight other albums of his have gone gold in the U.S., including several compilations.[96] Bennett has also charted over 30 singles during his career, with his biggest hits all occurring during the early 1950s and none charting between 1968 and 2010.
Books[link]
- Bennett, Tony. Tony Bennett: What My Heart Has Seen. Rizzoli, 1996. ISBN 0-8478-1972-8.
- Bennett, Tony, with Will Friedwald. The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett. Pocket Books, 1998. ISBN 0-671-02469-8.
- Bennett, Tony, with Robert Sullivan. Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music. Sterling Publishing, 2007. ISBN 1-4027-4767-5.
See also[link]
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- Whitburn, Joel (1983). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: 1955 to present. Billboard Publications. ISBN 0-8230-7511-7.
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