Perfectly Frank
''Perfectly Frank'' is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1992 and recorded as a tribute to Frank Sinatra. Part of Bennett's late-in-life comeback to commercial success, it achieved gold record status in the United States and won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance in 1993. In 2006, the album was reissued with the same contents as ''Perfectly Frank: An American Classic Celebrates 80'', in conjunction with Bennett's 80th birthday. Track listing # " Time After Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:32 # " I Fall in Love Too Easily" (Cahn, Styne) – 2:01 # "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 4:11 # "Nancy (with the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:14 # "I Thought About You" (Johnny Mercer, Van Heusen) – 2:55 # " Night and Day" (Cole Porter) – 3:35 # "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:52 # "I'm Glad There Is You" (Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Madeira) – 3:14 # "A Nightingale Sang in ...
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Tony Bennett
Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American retired singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett is also a painter, having created works under his birth name that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York. Bennett began singing at an early age. He fought in the final stages of World War II as a U.S. Army infantryman in the European Theater. Afterward, he developed his singing technique, signed with Columbia Records and had his first number-one popular song with " Because of You" in 1951. Several tracks such as "Rags to Riches" followed in early 1953. He then refined his approach to encompass jazz singing. He reached an artistic peak in the late 1950s with albums such as ''The Beat of My Heart'' and ''Basie Swings, Bennett Sings''. In 1962, Bennett recorded his signature song, "I Left My ...
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