TONY BENNETT & DIANA KRAL - LOVE IS HERE TO STAY

LOVE IS HERE TO STAY

TONY BENNETT & DIANA KRALL

COMPOSERS: GERSHWIN IRA & GERSHWIN GEORGE

COUNTRY: USA/CANADIAN

ALBUM: LOVE IS HERE TO STAY

LABEL: VERVE/COLUMBIA

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 2011

Love Is Here to Stay is a collaborative studio album by Tony Bennett and Diana Krall, released on September 14, 2018, via Verve Records/Columbia Records. The album features the New York-based jazz group the Bill Charlap Trio. The album was released both as a CD containing tracks 13 & 14 exclusive to this version and an exclusive red-colored vinyl LP.

Anthony Dominick Benedetto(born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. He is also a painter, having created works under the name Anthony Benedetto 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.

Born and raised in Astoria to an Italian-American family, 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 top hits 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 Heart in San Francisco". His career and personal life experienced an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era.

Bennett staged a comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s, putting out gold record albums again and expanding his reach to the MTV generation while keeping his musical style intact. He remains a popular and critically praised recording artist and concert performer in the 2010s. He has won 19 Grammy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award, presented in 2001) and two Emmy Awards, and was named an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree. Bennett has sold over 50 million records worldwide.

Diana Jean Krall (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million albums worldwide. On December 11, 2009, Billboard magazine named her the second Jazz Artist of the Decade (2000–09), establishing her as one of the best-selling artists of her time.

Krall is the only jazz singer to have had eight albums debuting at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums. To date, she has won three Grammy Awards and eight Juno Awards. She has also earned nine gold, three platinum, and seven multi-platinum albums.]]

[Tony Bennett:]

The more I read the papers

The less I comprehend

The world and all its capers

And how it all will end

[Diana Krall:]

Nothing seems to be lasting

But that isn't our affair

[Tony Bennett:]

We've got something permanent

I mean in the way we care

It's very clear

Our love is here to stay

Not for a year

But ever and a day

The radio and the telephone

And the movies that we know

May just be passing fancies

And in time may go

But oh, my dear

Our love is here to stay

Together we're

Going a long, long way

In time the Rockies may crumble

Gibraltar may tumble

They're only made of clay

But...

Our love is here to stay

[Diana Krall:]

It's very clear

Our love is here to stay

Not for a year

But ever and a day

The radio and the telephone

And the movies that we know

May just be passing fancies

And in time may go

[Tony Bennett:]

But oh, my dear

Our love is here to stay

Together we're

Going a long, long way

[Diana Krall:]

In time the Rockies may crumble

Gibraltar may tumble

They're only made of clay

But...

[Both:]Our love is here to stay