Anthony Dominick Benedetto,known professionally as Tony Bennett,was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades,including 20 Grammy Awards,a Lifetime Achievement Award,and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Bennett was named a National Endowments for the Arts Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree. He founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria,Queens,New York,along with Exploring the Arts,a non-profit arts education program. He sold more than 50 million records worldwide and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
"I Get a Kick Out of You" is a song by Cole Porter,which was first sung in the 1934 Broadway musical Anything Goes,and then in the 1936 film version. Originally sung by Ethel Merman,it has been covered by dozens of prominent performers,including Frank Sinatra,Dolly Parton,and Ella Fitzgerald. MF DOOM also used this in his song One Beer. A cover by Mel Torméwon the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement with Accompanying Vocal(s) for arranger Rob McConnell,while a duet version by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga was nominated for three awards at the 2022 ceremony,including Record of the Year.
The discography of American traditional pop and jazz singer Tony Bennett consists of 61 studio albums,11 live albums,33 compilation albums,three video albums,one extended play and 83 singles.
"Let's Do It,Let's Fall in Love" is a popular song written in 1928 by Cole Porter. It was introduced in Porter's first Broadway success,the musical Paris (1928) by French chanteuse Irène Bordoni,for whom Porter had written the musical as a starring vehicle.
"Winter Wonderland" is a song written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and lyricist Richard Bernhard Smith. Due to its seasonal theme,it is often regarded as a Christmas song in the Northern Hemisphere. Since its original recording by Richard Himber,it has been covered by over 200 different artists. Its lyrics are about a couple's romance during the winter season.
"Nature Boy" is a song first recorded by American jazz singer Nat King Cole. It was released on March 29,1948,as a single by Capitol Records,and later appeared on the album The Nat King Cole Story. It was written by eden ahbez as a tribute to Bill Pester,who practiced the Naturmensch and Lebensreform philosophies adopted by Ahbez. The lyrics of the song relate to a 1940s Los Angeles–based group called "Nature Boys",a subculture of proto-hippies of which Ahbez was a member.
"My Baby Just Cares for Me" is a jazz standard written by Walter Donaldson with lyrics by Gus Kahn. Written for the film version of the musical comedy Whoopee! (1930),the song became a signature tune for Eddie Cantor who sang it in the movie. A stylized version of the song by American singer and songwriter Nina Simone,recorded in 1957,was a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom after it was used in a 1987 perfume commercial and resulted in a renaissance for Simone.
"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" is the second single by American singer-actress Cher from her second album,The Sonny Side of Chér (1966). It was written by her husband Sonny Bono and released in 1966. It reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a week (behind "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" by The Righteous Brothers),eventually becoming one of Cher's biggest-selling singles of the 1960s.
"I've Got the World on a String" is a 1932 popular jazz song composed by Harold Arlen,with lyrics written by Ted Koehler. It was written for the twenty-first edition of the Cotton Club series which opened on October 23,1932,the first of the Cotton Club Parades.
"Just One of Those Things" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the 1935 musical Jubilee.
"I Can't Give You Anything but Love,Baby" is an American popular song and jazz standard by Jimmy McHugh (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics). The song was introduced by Adelaide Hall at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York in January 1928 in Lew Leslie's Blackbird Revue,which opened on Broadway later that year as the highly successful Blackbirds of 1928,wherein it was performed by Adelaide Hall,Aida Ward,and Willard McLean.
"Anything Goes" is a song written by Cole Porter for his 1934 musical of the same name. Many of the lyrics include humorous references to figures of scandal and gossip from Depression-era high society.
"Poker Face" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga from her debut studio album,The Fame (2008). It was released on September 23,2008,as the album's second single. It is a synth-pop song in the key of G♯ minor,following in the footsteps of her previous single "Just Dance",but with a darker musical tone. The main idea behind the song is bisexuality and was a tribute by Gaga to her rock and roll boyfriends. The song's lyrics feature various sexual innuendos.
American singer Lady Gaga has released five solo studio albums,two collaborative studio albums,four film soundtracks,three remix albums,two compilation albums,four EPs,two live albums,40 singles,and 14 promotional singles. Gaga made her debut in August 2008 with the studio album The Fame,which peaked at number two in the United States,where it was subsequently certified triple Platinum,while topping the charts in Austria,Canada,Germany,Switzerland,and the United Kingdom. Its first two singles,"Just Dance" and "Poker Face",reached number one in Australia,Canada,the United Kingdom,and the United States,and for the latter,becoming the world's biggest single of the 2009 calendar year. The album spawned three more singles:"Eh,Eh ","LoveGame" and "Paparazzi". The latter reached the top ten in many countries worldwide,and number one in Germany.
"Little Green Apples" is a song written by Bobby Russell that became a hit for three different artists,with their three separate releases,in 1968. Originally written for and released by American recording artist Roger Miller,"Little Green Apples" was also released as a single by American recording artists Patti Page and O. C. Smith that same year. Smith's version became a #2 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Hot Rhythm &Blues Singles charts,while Miller's version became a Top 40 hit on the Hot 100 as well as the UK Singles Chart. Page's version became her last Hot 100 entry. The song earned Russell a Grammy Award for Song of the Year and for Best Country Song. In 2013,"Little Green Apples" was covered by English recording artist Robbie Williams featuring American recording artist Kelly Clarkson,which became a top 40 hit in Mexico.
"You and I" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga,taken from her second studio album,Born This Way (2011). She also co-produced it with Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The track samples Queen's "We Will Rock You" (1977) and features electric guitar by Queen's Brian May. Gaga debuted "You and I" in June 2010 during her performance at Elton John's White Tie and Tiara Ball. Footage of the performance appeared on the Internet,and positive response encouraged her to include the song on her setlist for The Monster Ball Tour. She later performed the song on Today to a record crowd in July 2010,and on The Oprah Winfrey Show in May 2011. On August 23,2011,Interscope Records released the song as the fourth single from the album.
"This Is All I Ask" is a popular song written by Gordon Jenkins in 1958.
A Very Gaga Thanksgiving is a Thanksgiving television special that originally aired on November 24,2011,in the United States on the ABC network. Conceived and directed by Lady Gaga,it discusses her personal life and the inspiration behind her music. A 30-second preview of the special premiered on November 20,2011 on Lady Gaga's YouTube channel. Principal photography took place at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York City.
Cheek to Cheek is the first collaborative album by American singers Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga,released on September 19,2014,by Columbia and Interscope Records. It is Bennett's fifty-eighth studio album,and Gaga's fourth. The two first met at the Robin Hood Foundation gala in New York City in 2011,and later recorded a rendition of "The Lady Is a Tramp" together,after which they began discussing plans of working on a jazz project. Cheek to Cheek consists of jazz standards by popular composers such as George Gershwin,Cole Porter,Jerome Kern,and Irving Berlin. It was inspired by Bennett and Gaga's desire to introduce the songs to a younger generation,since they believed these tracks have a universal appeal.
Love for Sale is the second collaborative album by American singers Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga,released on September 30,2021,by Columbia and Interscope Records. It is the sixty-first and final studio album of Bennett's career. Following Cheek to Cheek (2014),the duo's first collaborative album,Love for Sale was recorded between 2018 and early 2020,consisting of their renditions of various jazz standards by American composer Cole Porter,to whom the record is a tribute.
