We Honor The Late Tony Bennett Who Passed Today At 96

The Michael Berry Show

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🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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0:00.0	The Michael Berry Show.
0:02.8	Tony Bennett has passed at 96.
0:08.3	Next month, he would have been 97.
0:12.6	Anthony Dominic Benedetto, known, of course, as Tony Bennett.
0:20.3	20 Grammy Awards.
0:23.8	20 Grammy Awards.
0:26.6	A lifetime achievement award.
0:29.0	Two prime time Emmys.
0:32.6	N.E.A. Jazzmaster, Kennedy Center Honorary, founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the
0:37.6	Arts in Queens.
0:40.3	He sold more than 50 million records worldwide.
0:48.1	Fought in the final stages of World War II as a U.S. Army infantryman, signed with Columbia
0:54.3	a record shortly after, had his first number one with because of you in 1951, saying
1:04.4	rags to riches, developed a jazz following.
1:12.2	What's incredible about Tony Bennett is not all the things he did when he was on top,
1:19.3	that with all those years in between, there would come a point where kind of like Dolly Parton,
1:29.8	there would come a point where the nation would go, let's bring Tony Bennett back.
1:36.9	Let's bring the guy that our grandparents used to love back and then Tony Bennett had
1:43.3	this sort of second act, third act, fourth act where he would appear with artists of a
1:54.7	wide ranging genre and everyone would cheer.
2:00.8	They didn't even remember Tony Bennett.
2:03.2	They just knew it was kind of cool that he was really old and he was loving it.
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