![]() ![]() He recorded with orchestras, with major jazz musicians, with big bands and, for more than 50 years, with the pianist and arranger Ralph Sharon and his trio. ![]() They’re songs mostly about grown-up love, about courtship, yearning and fulfillment, with elegant rhymes and ingenious melodies that invite a little improvisation. He welcomed them to a repertoire of songs he admired, knew intimately and was happy to share.īennett sang vintage pop standards, the pre-rock canon sometimes called the Great American Songbook. Instead, he let listeners - and, in recent decades, much younger duet partners - come to him, generation after generation. He didn’t chase trends he didn’t get defensive, either. Throughout a career that began in the 1940s, Bennett, who died on Friday at 96, maintained one mission, amiably and unswervingly. Has there ever been a more purely likable pop figure than Tony Bennett? Stay tuned for more news from Wild Rivers.Tony Bennett and Billy Joel performing during the 44th Annual Grammy Awards in 2002. Guess we caught up with telling a lie Now you're leaving me lonely I could get in my car, end up drunk at some bar But that was the old me Remember the night that we slept on My sweater on your bedroom floor You can take that You don’t want my love no more Honey i can shake that I come you go Back around, back around I see your ghost on I am westward on a rolling track Got your cold steel on my back I done my time babe, I played the fool I made my mind up on lovin' you Cuz you’ve had lovers, I'm We took a damn long drive You were singing death cab While I harmonized Your chest can fall and rise Moving like a needle drop On my 45 But I don’t wanna go IĪll day we wait Just to go back to the places that we know Light grey, day breaks Over my head and pouring down my throat Ooh, oooh Howlin' out here for the morning
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