| LC control no. | n 85006632 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | ML420.B3438 Biography |
| Personal name heading | Bennett, Tony, 1926-2023 |
| Variant(s) | Benedetto, Anthony Dominick, 1926-2023 Bari, Joe, 1926-2023 |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Improv (Sound recording label) |
| Other standard no. | 0000 0001 1476 2370 500197639 84563171 Q296729 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1926-08-03 |
| Death date | 2023-07-21 |
| Place of birth | Queens (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Musicians |
| Found in | Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Dinah Shore [SR] p1983: program notes (b. Aug. 1926, Astoria, Queens, N.Y.) Tony Bennett [SR] p1986: notes (Anthony Dominick Benedetto; Joe Bari) New Grove dic. of Am. music (Bennett, Tony; Benedetto, Anthony Dominick; Bari, Joe; b. Aug. 3, 1926, New York; popular singer) New York Times WWW site, July 21, 2023 (Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96; died Friday [July 21] at his home in Manhattan) New York times, 22 July 2023: in a front page obituary (Tony Bennett; born Anthony Dominick Benedetto on Aug. 3, 1926 in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, grew up in Astoria, died Friday [July 21, 2023] in Manhattan [New York], aged 96; a singer whose melodic clarity, jazz-influenced phrasing, audience-embracing persona and warm, deceptively simple interpretations of musical standards helped spread the American songbook around the world and won him generations of fans; Mr. Bennett's career of more than 70 years was remarkable not only for its longevity, but also for its consistency; from his initial success as a jazzy crooner who wowed audiences at the Paramount in Times Square in the early 1950s, through his late-in-life duets with younger singers gleaned from a range of genres and generations, [Bennett] was an active promoter of both songwriting and entertaining as timeless, noble pursuits; when starting out before being drafted and serving in Germany during World War II, he performed at amateur shows using the stage name Joe Bari; during the mid-1970s when his relationship with Columbia soured, Mr. Bennett formed his own company, Improv Records which went out of business in 1977) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | no 00062280 |
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