Tony Bennett

Anthony Dominick "Tony" Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), better known by his stage name Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. He is also a painter, having created works under the name Anthony Benedetto that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York.

Born and raised in Astoria to an Italian-American family, Bennett began singing at an early age. He fought in the final stages of World War II as a U.S. Army infantryman in the European Theater. Afterward, 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. He then 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 experienced an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era.

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Tony Bennett (basketball, born 1984)

Tony Bennett (born August 22, 1984) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Windsor Express of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL). He was part of an Express team that won the championship in 2014–15. Bennett was a Premier Basketball League All-Star in 2010 and an Independent Basketball Association All-Star in 2012. He played college basketball for the Bradley Braves and led them to a Sweet 16 appearance in the 2006 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. Prior to that, Bennett attended George Westinghouse College Prep in Chicago, Illinois.

Professional career

On May 8, 2015, Bennett was suspended indefinitely from the Windsor Express and the National Basketball League of Canada following a pre-game altercation in the 2015 NBL Canada Finals, after which the Halifax Rainmen forfeited Game 7. His team was awarded the championship, but his head coach Bill Jones received a one-year suspension and a $4,000 fine. Even more suspensions were faced by the Rainmen, including those of Kevin Young and Cliff Clinkscales.

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Tony Bennett (sociologist)

Tony Bennett is an English academic who has also worked in Australia. Bennett is an important figure in the development of the Australian approach to cultural studies known as "cultural policy studies."

His works include The Birth of the Museum, a study of the birth and cultural function of the modern museum, and Outside Literature. He is professor of sociology at the Open University in the UK, and Director of the Economic and Social Science Research Centre on Socio-Cultural Change.

Tony Bennett is Visiting Research Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and an associate member of CRESC, the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change. Professor Bennett was the Professor of Sociology at The Open University from 1998 to 2009, and a Founding Director of CRESC, before leaving to take up his current position as Research Professor in Social and Cultural Theory in the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney. He also worked at The Open University in the 1970s and early 1980s, initially as a Staff Tutor in Sociology and subsequently as Chair of the Popular Culture course before leaving for Griffith University where he was Professor of Cultural Studies and also served as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Director of the ARC Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy. He is a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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Famous quotes by Tony Bennett:

"I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing."
"My favorite song is "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" because it's become my signature song. I sang it for six American presidents and five command performances... it's made me a world citizen."
"I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world."
"I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world."
"I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today."
"Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had."
"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."
"We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't."
"We used to do seven shows at day at the Capitol Theater in Washington and the Paramount in New York. The manager said you are doing the young crowd in the morning, the senior citizens in the afternoon, the engaged and married couples in the evening. And he said just sing good songs and everyone would like it. I stayed with that."
"[Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing] I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time."
"More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform."
"To work is to feel alive."

Tony Bennett

ALBUMS

Tony Bennett

ALBUMS

The Classics

Released 2014

Cheek to Cheek

Released 2014

The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album

Released 2014

As Time Goes By: Great American Songbook Classics

Released 2013

Viva Duets

Released 2012

Coleção Folha grandes vozes, Volume 8: Tony Bennett

Released 2012

The Classic Christmas Album

Released 2011

Duets II

Released 2011

Through the Years

Released 2008

A Swingin' Christmas

Released 2008

Night and Day

Released 2007

Collections

Released 2007

Sings the Ultimate American Songbook, Volume 1

Released 2007

Forever Gold

Released 2006

Here's Tony Bennett

Released 2006

Tony Bennett's Greatest Hits of the 60's

Released 2006

Sings for Lovers

Released 2006

Solitare

Released 2005

A Life in Song

Released 2005

Jazz Moods - Cool

Released 2005

Tony Bennett Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook

Released 2005

The Complete Improv Recordings

Released 2004

Chicago

Released 2004

Fifty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett

Released 2004

The Art of Romance

Released 2004

While We're Young

Released 2003

The Good Life

Released 2003

Together Again

Released 2003

Blue Velvet

Released 2003

On the Town - 20 Easy Listening Favourites

Released 2002

The Legendary Tony Bennett

Released 2002

Hallmark Presents Christmas with Tony Bennett and the London Symphony Orchestra

Released 2002

The Essential Tony Bennett

Released 2002

Duets II

Released 2001

Our Favorite Things: Christmas in Vienna

Released 2001

Jazz

Released 2000

The Ultimate Tony Bennett

Released 2000

The Incomparable Tony Bennett

Released 1999

Tony Bennett

Released 1999

Sings Rodgers & Hart Songs

Released 1999

In Person!

Released 1999

Anything Goes

Released 1999

Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool

Released 1999

This Is Jazz 33

Released 1998

The Playground

Released 1998

The Essential Tony Bennett (A Retrospective)

Released 1998

As Time Goes By

Released 1998

Life Is A Song

Released 1997

At Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert

Released 1997

Tony Bennett Sings His All-Time Hall of Fame Hits

Released 1997

On Holiday

Released 1997

40 Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett, Volume 4

Released 1997

40 Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett, Volume 3

Released 1997

Tony Bennett's All-Time Greatest Hits

Released 1997

I Wanna Be Around

Released 1996

Tony Bennett Sings for Two

Released 1995

Who Can I Turn To

Released 1995

Something

Released 1995

The Very Thought of You

Released 1995

The Essence of Tony Bennett

Released 1993

His 28 Greatest Hits

Released 1992

The Special Magic of Tony Bennett

Released 1991

The Good Life

Released 1990

Count Basie and His Orchestra Swings, Tony Bennett Sings

Released 1990

Tony Bennett in Concert With Count Basie

Released 1990

The Art of Excellence

Released 1990

Astoria: Portrait of the Artist

Released 1990

Tony Bennett with the Count Basie Orchestra

Released 1989

Movie Song Album

Released 1988

Bennett/Berlin

Released 1987

Chicago

Released 1986

The Very Best Of

Released 1976

Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album

Released 1968

For Once in My Life

Released 1967

I Left My Heart in San Francisco

Released 1962

My Heart Sings

Released 1961

Tony's Greatest Hits

Released 1958

Blue Velvet

Released 1958

Tony

Released 1957

The Beat of My Heart

Released 1957

Alone at Last with Tony Bennett

Released 1955

Cloud 7

Released 1955

Hometown, My Town

The Crooners

Guard Sessions

Tony Bennett Swings

Life Is A Song

Dean Martin & Tony Bennett

Duets: An American Classic

Take My Hand

All the Best

Tony Bennett - 14 Special Hits

Basie Swings, Bennett Sings

I Left My Heart in San Francisco / I Wanna Be Around

I Left My Heart in San Francisco

When I Fall in Love

Bennett and Basie

The Bravo Card Collection

Listener's Choice

Tony Bennett's All-Time Greatest Hits

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PLAYLIST TIME:

Best Thing Is To Be A Person

by: Tony Bennett

There was a man
Looked up to Heaven
And he said, “Lord, what good am I?
I feel so unimportant that it makes me want to cry.
What should I do, Lord? Please answer me.”
The Lord said, “Sure son, I’ll tell you what to be:
The best thing to be is a person.
Just a person who loves is fellow man.
The best thing to be is a person.
Just a person who does the best he can.”
The Lord said, “You can be a big man,
And I can tell you where to start.
Just let the world around you
Know the love that’s in your heart.”
The Lord said softly, “Listen to me.
There’s only one thing that I want you to be.
The one thing to be is a person.
Just a person who does the best he can.”




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Coloradoan 21 Mar 2025
Medved is also close with former Virginia coach Tony Bennett and his father Dick (CSU graduate assistant Lucas Stieber is the grandson of Dick and nephew of Tony) ... Tony Bennett's full-time replacement.

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Yahoo Daily News 21 Mar 2025
There will be no repeat in 2025 ... In the past four years, head coaches Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams, Tony Bennett, Jim Boehiem, Leonard Hamilton, Jim Larrañaga and Mike Brey have retired ... -Jason OwensThe Pitino-Calipari showdown is set ... -Jason Owens .

Robert De Niro on lunch with Noel Gallagher: “Did I go away and listen to ...

NME 21 Mar 2025
Actually happened!!!” ... Watch the full video interview above ... It’s unsurprising De Niro isn’t au fait with the Britpop era, because he namechecked classic American singers Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Nat King Cole as his go-to artists of the moment.

Well … what do you know? | City Insider

Chico Enterprise Record 21 Mar 2025
It’s been a busy week in local government circles. The Chico City Council held two meetings — one for the usual array of business, one for an unusual (for the council) exercise in strategic planning ... 1 ... c) St ... 2 ... b) Dale Bennett ... d) Toni Scott.

Hamtramck Blowout leads the music madness in the metro area this weekend

Press & Guide 20 Mar 2025
The madness isn’t limited to basketball courts this weekend ... Fourth St ... • Rain ... • DJ Matt Bennett presides over a Party101 show at Saint Andrew’s Hall, 431 E ... • Longtime Tony Bennett pianist Bill Charlap and his Trio play at 6 and 8.30 p.m ... .

March Madness History: Best moments in NCAA Division I Men’s, Women’s Basketball Tournament

Yahoo Daily News 19 Mar 2025
But it also changed Virginia and head coach Tony Bennett, who used the loss as a chance to pull himself and his team closer together. One year later, in 2019, Bennett and the Cavaliers were cutting down the nets as National Champions.Women’s 1998 ... No ... .

March Madness upset picks: 5 bracket buster first-round predictions

Usatoday 19 Mar 2025
The Tigers play at a relatively fast pace while the Bulldogs are the slowest team in the country, with a KenPom adjusted tempo ranking lower than all but one of Tony Bennett’s 15 teams at Virginia.

Letter of the week: The state of education

New Statesman 19 Mar 2025
A pledge of allegiance? ... In the period of time that Kate Mossman declares Lady Gaga faded from view (The Critics, 14 March), she recorded two albums of grown-up jazz with Tony Bennett, the first of which went platinum on release, and toured with him.

Keeler: CU Buffs fans who want Tad Boyle out the door need to be careful ...

Denver Post 19 Mar 2025
They wanted more ... Dr ... Peers such as Villanova’s Jay Wright and Virginia’s Tony Bennett recently walked away at ages 60 and 55, respectively, and neither seemed thrilled with a world of transfer portals and Name/Image/Likeness contracts ... ....

30 Bayside South Baseball players to watch during the 2025 Spring season

Delmarva Now 18 Mar 2025
Bennett, and Snow Hill have been mainstays competing at the top of their classes in the MPSSAA playoffs ... Bennett) ... All-Bayside South Second Team in 2024Brady Colwell (Mardela) ... Bennett) ... Bennett) ... Bennett) ... Tony Martin (Pocomoke) ... Bennett) ... Bennett).

Lady Gaga calls out 'ageism' in the music industry with powerful speech

RTE 18 Mar 2025
David Bowie, Grace Jones, Carole King, Elton John, Lady Starlight, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Duke Ellington, Cher and, of course, my dear friend Tony Bennett, who taught me to embrace the classics but never be bound by them."

Lady Gaga fights back against ageism: 'I'm just getting started'

Music News 18 Mar 2025
Elsewhere in her moving speech, Gaga acknowledged the artists who paved the way for her and other performers, such as Elton John, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, and Cher, as well as her late friend and frequent collaborator, Tony Bennett ... Break the mould ... .

Iowa Senate advances bill to strengthen rules against drones over farmland

Atlantic News Telegraph 18 Mar 2025
(Stock photo via Canva) ... Sen ... The Sierra Club Iowa Chapter is the only lobbyist registered against the bill ... The bill advances to the Iowa House after a 46-3 vote, with Senate Democrats Herman Quirmbach, Tony Bisignano and Liz Bennett dissenting ... .

Bord Gáis Energy Theatre offers anniversary giveaway

RTE 18 Mar 2025
... Bernie Sanders, William Shatner, Tony Bennett, Angela Lansbury, Katherine Jenkins, Joanna Lumley, Joan Baez, Michael Parkinson, Steve Coogan, Robert Plant, Kraftwerk, Cynthia Erivo, and Idina Menzel.

Bracket Breakdown II: SEC wins conference call, but will Auburn take the South?

Wtop 18 Mar 2025
File photo of Auburn forward Johni Broome. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)(AP/John Bazemore) File photo of Auburn forward Johni Broome ... Bracket Breakdown I ... Closer to home, Virginia is in the middle of a coaching search after Tony Bennett’s autumn exit.

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