With the 1980s Great American Songbook revival, with The Simpsons, with Lady Gaga.
found himself in the most uncertain period of his life. “I’ve always tried to do the cream of the popular repertoire yet remain commercial,” he told thein 1974, shortly after he’d left Columbia Records and was about to strike out with Improv, his own independent label. “Hanging out with good songs is the secret… I love singing too much to cheat the public.
Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born on August 3, 1926 in Queens, to John Benedetto, an Italian grocer who immigrated to New York twenty years before his youngest son’s arrival, and Anna Benedetto , whose own Italian parents settled in the Lower East Side before the turn of the century. He was a creative kid, the sort who sang at school assemblies as he grew up in Astoria and soaked up his tap-dancer uncle’s stories about life on the road with the vaudeville circuit.
The ‘50s were kind to Bennett. He signed with Columbia Records in 1950, released the ornate, chart-topping ballad “Because of You,” and followed that with a cover of Hank Williams’ “Cold, Cold Heart,” another hit that was later heralded as the first pop-country crossover . He released nine albums — many of them featuring covers of Rodgers & Hammerstein show tunes and Gershwin standards — and hosted a nationally-broadcast variety show on NBC.
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