A happy 95th birthday to Tony Bennett, born Anthony Dominick Benedetto in New York on this day in 1926. He’s sold over 50 million records and won 19 Grammy awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award. "The Way You Look Tonight" is a standard by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and was originally sung by Fred Astaire in the 1936 movie Swing Time.
We saw hi in concert a few years ago, he was amazing. Lady Gaga plans to do another concert with him, but I don’t think he’s got the energy for an entire live show.
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Birgit told me he had Alzheimer’s, plus the guy is 95 years old…
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Such a very lovely song!
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People knew how to write songs back then.
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I immediately thought of the song by Elton John and thought, I didn’t know Tony Bennett sang that too – LOL.
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Elton did it, too? It’s an old standard. I’m pretty sure Sinatra did it, and most likely others. Glad you liked it.
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No, Elton’s song is different. Thats why I was surprised.
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He is the last of those great singers from the 40s and 50s and worked with all the greats. It is a shame that he now suffers from Alzheimers. Apparently he can still sing the standards.
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Amazing how that works. I saw a video of Glen Campbell just a couple of days before he died, and he could still play guitar pretty well. I know Tony sang with Count Basie. Ed Sullivan would usually schedule both on the same show. If MTV got one thing right, it was having him on one of their “Unplugged” shows: it introduced him to a whole new audience and revived his career.
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What a great singer, performer and his paintings are wonderful also.
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He’s pretty much the end of the line for that whole group of singers that came up in the ’40’s and ’50’s. They were the real pros….
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Another wonderful song and performance.
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You’d expect nothing less from him, would you?
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He’s amazing!
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He is. They broke the mold after him.
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