An Appreciation of the Art and Music of Tony Bennett
The Twelve Days of Tony Bennett Christmas begins just after midnight on December 14, 2012 on The Year of Tony Bennett.
We’ll be featuring 12 of Tony Bennett’s greatest songs of the season every day for the next 12 days!
Come join us and celebrate the holidays with The Year of Tony Bennett.
The Year of Tony Bennett is very pleased to celebrate its six month anniversary. The very first article was posted on June 10, 2012 at 4:22 am and was titled Welcome to The Year of Tony Bennett.
It’s been a great ride and all we can do is say thank you very much. What started out as small little WordPress site has grown beyond our wildest dreams.
In the last six months, quite a lot has been accomplished, including:
In his recent book, Life is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett, Tony Bennett says that “If you follow your passion, you’ll never work a day in your life.” In writing this blog, I have discovered my passion and can honestly say that doing this has never felt like work.
Many thanks to each and every one of our readers. I love writing this blog and I hope you enjoy reading it.
Sometime around 2:30 this afternoon, November 30, 2012, The Year of Tony Bennett got its 10,000th page load.
This blog was created on June 10, 2012; since that time, pages in this blog have been viewed over 10000 times by our wonderful visitors. We cannot begin to express our enormous gratitude to those of you who somehow discovered us and come back to visit, leave comments and offer encouragement.
All of us are bound by our love for the music of Tony Bennett; I can’t think of a better and finer group of people to create a blog for. We are sincerely grateful to each and every visitor.
Just for kicks, you can click here to read the very first post.
Thanks!
The elves at The Year of Tony Bennett are busy preparing a Twelve Days of a Tony Bennett Christmas song fest. If there’s a Tony Bennett Christmas song you’d like to hear, please let us know.
You can leave a reply to this message or send an email to suzanne@bloggingtonybennett.com
Looking forward to sharing the holidays with you all.
The Year of Tony Bennett is grateful for many things this year.
I am grateful to our wonderful visitors. We’ve had visitors from every state in the union (except Vermont, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana) and the District of Columbia. We’ve had visitors from every continent, except Antarctica. Update: Welcome to our new reader from Minot, ND! Another update: Welcome to our new reader from Gillette, Wyoming! Yet another update: Welcome to our new reader from Burlington, Vermont!
I am grateful to the friends I’ve made who read the blog and offer their support. Tony Bennett fans are a great group of people.
I am grateful to WordPress for the technology that made it possible for me to create this blog.
I am grateful to Woo Themes for their design and their excellent support.
I am grateful to my colleagues at my day job. They support me in this endeavor every day and I could not do this without their understanding, encouragement and patience. Especially Pete, who listens to my ramblings during the day when I say things like “OMG … I just got a hit from Iran!”
I am grateful to Mr. Tony Bennett, who not only inspires me, but millions of people all over the world. By his example, he shows us truth and beauty in every thing he does as a performer, artist, author and humanitarian. He is a beacon of light in this world and I am very thankful that there are people like him who share and give so much to everyone.
I am profoundly grateful to my friend and co-blogger Lesley, who has shared this journey with me every step of the way. She is the one person in the world that I can call on the phone and say “You know, I’ve been listening to the Ellington album and I heard something in Sophisticated Lady that really blew me away …” and we can talk about that for hours. And have.
Have a wonderful day, everyone! And thank you. Very much.
Suzanne