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It was often performed in public by Bennett in concert as well as on special occasions. A statue of Tony Bennett was unveiled outside the Fairmont Hotel on 19 August 2016, in honor of his 90th birthday, the hotel performance, and the song's history with San Francisco. [10] Two years later, the block of Mason Street was renamed Tony Bennett Way ...
Danny Bennett continued to be Tony's manager while Dae Bennett is a recording engineer who worked on a number of Tony's projects and who opened Bennett Studios in Englewood, New Jersey in 2001, now shuttered due to the downturn of major label budgets combined with skyrocketing overhead. Tony's younger daughter Antonia is an aspiring jazz singer ...
Tony Bennett's version was featured in the opening sequence of the 1990 film Goodfellas. [9] The opening line of the song was sung regularly and exuberantly by the character Carmine Ragusa on the television series Laverne & Shirley, [10] typically when he had good news. Jackie Wilson's version of the song is featured in the 2010 video game ...
A ^ Tony Bennett's Greatest Hits, Vol. III was released under the title Tony's Greatest Hits in the United Kingdom. B ^ "The Moment of Truth" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 27 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, which acts as an extension to the Hot 100.
"The Good Life" was the theme song of the 2000 British gangster film, Gangster No. 1. The Tony Bennett version also features in the 1988 British feature film Buster, about the criminals responsible for the 1963 Great Train Robbery in Buckinghamshire. The song was also employed as a 2007 jingle for a line of pet foods of the same name.
A 1951 recording by Tony Bennett, Columbia Records catalog number 39362, recorded on April 4, 1951 with orchestral backing conducted by Percy Faith, was Bennett’s first major hit, reaching number one on the Billboard charts and staying there for 10 weeks. Due to its importance in establishing his fame, he continued to perform the song for the ...
The Movie Song Album is a 1966 studio album by Tony Bennett. [2] The album consists of songs from films, opening with the theme from The Oscar, in which Bennett had recently appeared. With this project of such high quality of song material and collaborators, he was to describe the album in his autobiography as his "all time favorite record". [3]
Jazz pianist Bill Evans recorded the song, both with his trio and with Tony Bennett. Nancy Wilson, on her 1965 album, Gentle Is My Love. [10] The Temptations, on their album In a Mellow Mood. [11] In 1966, Sarah Vaughan covered the song for her album The New Scene; Jazz pianist Bob Neloms recorded a solo-piano version on his 1982 album, Pretty ...