Porter won his first Tony for his Kiss Me, Kate score. Notable songs include, "Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)" for Paris, "Night and Day" for Gay Divorce, "Wunderbar" for Kiss Me, Kate, "All Through the Night," "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "Blow Gabriel Blow," and the title song for Anything Goes. Charming melodies and clever lyrics set Porter aside from other composers. Thier first album together, CHEECK TO CHEEK, released in 2014 won a Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.Īs you can read in the post from Lady Gaga this second album is to feature songs celebrating Cole PorterĬole Porter was a composer and lyricist who created a sophisticated and rich body of work that appeared on both Broadway and the Big Screen. Because of You Rags to Riches I Left My Heart in San Francisco Body and Soul Just in Time Living Together, Growing Together The Lady Is a. LOVE FOR SALE is the upcoming album from Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga, thier second album together. You can pre-order the album and listen to our first single "I Get A Kick Out Of You" everywhere now!" Today, I am so excited to announce that our new album "Love For Sale" will be released October 1. I'm always honored to sing with my friend Tony, so of course I accepted the invitation. One special friend, Lady Gaga posted on social media, The day we released "Cheek To Cheek" in 2014, called me and asked me if I wanted to record another album with him, this time celebrating the songs of Cole Porter. Fans all around the world on social media are sending thier love to Mr. Sony has honored Tony Bennett today by gifting him and all New Yorks with a dedicated bench in Central Park. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.Thats right today, August 3rd 2021 is Tony Bennetts 95th birthday and New York State has made it official with Robert Farnon – arrangement, conducting." Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" Ticker Freeman, Earl Brown/ Irving Berlin When we finally kiss good-night How I’ll hate going out in the storm But if you really hold me tight All the way home I’ll be warm. "I Love the Winter Weather/ I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" Man it doesn’t show signs of stoppin’ And I brought me some corn for poppin’ The lights are turned way down low Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Traditional/ Josef Mohr, Franz Xaver Gruber/ John Francis Wade/ James Pierpont/ Lionel Bart "Medley: We Wish You a Merry Christmas/ Silent Night/ O Come All You Faithful/ Jingle Bells/ Where Is Love?" It was reissued once more in 2007, again with different cover art and including a bonus DVD containing excerpts from Bennett's 1992 television special Tony Bennett: A Family Christmas.īennett later recorded two additional Christmas albums, Hallmark presents Christmas with Tony Bennett and the London Symphony Orchestra (2002) and A Swingin' Christmas (Featuring The Count Basie Big Band) (2008). The album was reissued on CD in 1994, with new cover art and a bonus track, " I'll Be Home for Christmas", recorded during a live appearance by Bennett on The Jon Stewart Show.
Quincy Jones subsequently threw a party for Farnon in New York City, and at the party there were so many famous musicians that Jones joked, "If a bomb goes off in this apartment, there won't be any more records made!" In Bennett's autobiography, he recalls that the New York session was attended by such notable American arrangers as Don Costa, Marion Evans and Torrie Zito, all curious to see how Farnon worked. Six tracks were recorded at Columbia's recording studios in New York City, and four in London.
Farnon, who normally recorded in London, came to New York City for one of the two sessions that produced this album. It was arranged and conducted by Robert Farnon.Įven though they had been friends since the early 1950s, Bennett and Farnon had not recorded together before, Bennett having such reverence for Farnon's work that he felt he "wasn't ready.(and) not developed enough as an artist to record with him". Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album is a 1968 studio album by Tony Bennett, his first Christmas album. Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album