Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga sing Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. And they swing like nobody’s business! Pure joy! Pure energy!
A Little Anniversary
The Year of Tony Bennett is fourteen days old today. Yes, we’ve been here since June 11, 2012! A mere blog infant, we are.
We are profoundly grateful to all of our readers and especially to the followers of this blog. We’re getting ready to cut our first check to the Exploring the Arts Foundation: $1 for each follower. Help us reach the $300 mark by the end of June.
Frances W. Preston
The Year of Tony Bennett would like to acknowledge the passing of someone most of us have never heard of: Frances W. Preston. Ms. Preston died on June 13 at the age of 83.
Ms. Preston, who was a past president and chief executive officer of Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), spent her career defending the copyrights held by songwriters. She testified before Congress in support of the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992. We admire her for her unwavering support of composers, lyricists, and performers.
You can read her obituary in The New York Times.
The Tony Bennett connection? Ms. Preston’s first job included answering fan mail for Hank Williams, who composed Cold, Cold Heart.
Tony and Alec Baldwin on Saturday Night Live
Here’s the full skit of Alec Baldwin playing Tony Bennett. Enjoy! Thanks, Hulu! Thanks, Yahoo! Thanks, NBC!
Update: Hulu seems to have pulled this video. We’ll keep looking for it, though.
Good news! The segment is up on Yahoo; just click here.
The clip is up on the NBC site. Click here to view … it starts off with Adam Sandler; Tony’s segment starts about 1:43. This page on the NBC site has all five of the Alec Baldwin impersonations of his good friend Tony Bennett.
What To Do Until Your Next Live Tony Bennett Concert
If you’re like The Year of Tony Bennett, you’re waiting (somewhat impatiently) for your next live Tony Bennett concert. (Scroll to the bottom of the page to see how long The Year of Tony Bennett has to wait for their next concerts.)
As this is summer and we’re in a jazz festival state of mind, we’d like to draw your attention to a collection of videos from the Newport Jazz Festival in 2002 that are hosted on Wolfgang’s Vault.
This link will take to the page where you can choose from the many films available.
Enjoy! And remember: The Best Is Yet To Come!
Thanks to Wolfgang’s Vault.
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