The Year of Tony Bennett

An Appreciation of the Art and Music of Tony Bennett

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Song of the Day: Steppin’ Out With My Baby

The song of the day for Sunday, January 26, 2014 is “Steppin’ Out With My Baby.”

About This Song

“Steppin’ Out With My Baby” was written by Irving Berlin for the 1948 movie Easter Parade, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire. The song has been widely recorded by many jazz and popular singers, though today it is strongly associated with Tony Bennett.

About This Version

Today’s version of “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” is from Tony Bennett’s 1994 MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett album, as presented live on MTV. On this album, Bennett is accompanied by the Ralph Sharon Trio, with Doug Richeson on bass and Clayton Cameron on drums. Tony Bennett and Ralph Sharon did all of the arrangements for the album.

MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett not only won Tony Bennett the Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, but took the coveted Album of the Year Grammy award.

The Year of Tony Bennett wishes Mr. Bennett the very best of luck at tonight’s Grammy Awards, where Viva Duets is nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.

http://open.spotify.com/track/0m8gkoSVEsZFNa6n3zBPhl
“Steppin’ Out With My Baby,” as well as the MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett album, is available from iTunes.

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Tony Bennett: Grammy Awards

Over his career, Tony Bennett has won many awards and has been recognized for his artistic and philanthropic endeavors.

In this post, we recognize his sixteen awards from The Recording Academy. In addition to the sixteen seventeen eighteen Grammy awards won by Mr. Bennett, he received The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

Year Award Song or Album
1963 Best Solo Performance, Male “I Left My Heart In San Francisco”
1963 Record of the Year I Left My Heart In San Francisco
1993 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Perfectly Frank 
1994 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Steppin’ Out 
1995 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett
1995 Album of the Year MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett
1997 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Here’s To The Ladies 
1998 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Tony Bennett On Holiday
2000 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool 
2001 Lifetime Achievement Award
2003 Best Traditional Pop Album Playin’ With My Friends: Bennett Sings The Blues
2004 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album A Wonderful World (with k.d. lang)
2006 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album The Art of Romance 
2007 Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals For Once In My Life (with Stevie Wonder)
2012 Best Pop Duo/Group Performance “Body and Soul” (with Amy Winehouse)
2012 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Duets II 
2015 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Cheek To Cheek (with Lady Gaga)
 2016 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern (with Bill Charlap)