Whether Tony Bennett went solo or shared a spotlight with singers half his age, the indefatigable and self-effacing singer always put the song first.
for the same reason he loved Louis Armstrong: “The minute you heard him, just the first two bars, everyone started smiling. He made everybody smile."
Thirty years passed before Bennett won another Grammy in 1993, but after that, the floodgates opened.
Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born in New York City on Aug. 3, 1926, to John Benedetto Sr., a grocer, who emigrated from Reggio Calabria, Italy, and Anna Suraci Benedetto, an American-born Italian seamstress. Tony shared a flat above his father’s grocery store with his parents and an older brother and sister—John Jr. and Mary. Shortly before their father became ill and succumbed to heart disease, John Sr. was forced to sell his grocery store, and the Benedetto family fell into poverty.
The atrocities of war did little to mend divisions along racial lines. Rampant racism compounded an already hellish experience. Back in boot camp, it was bad for an Italian kid under the authority of an “old-fashioned Southern bigot” drill sergeant, and, as Bennett recalled, “it was just as bad for other ethnic groups, especially the Blacks and Jews.” It did not get better.
In 1950, Bennett signed with Columbia Records, and had a few hits under his belt, “Because of You” and “Just in Time,” and he had a nice run with Count Basie, a pairing he credits to the oft-criticized record producer Mitch Miller—the same Mitch Miller who conceived the first country-to-pop crossover when he had Tony cover Hank Williams’ “Cold, Cold Heart.”
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