TONY BENNETT - THE LADY IS A TRAMP

THE LADY IS A TRAMP

TONY BENNETT

SONGWRITERS: LORENZ HART & RICHARD RODGERS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: PERFECTLY FRANK

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1992

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 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.

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 to date. 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.

Perfectly Frank is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1992, 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 in 1993 won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.

In 2006 it was reissued with the same contents as Perfectly Frank: An American Classic Celebrates 80, in conjunction with Bennett's 80th birthday.

She gets too hungry for dinner at eight (I'm starving)

She loves the theater and never comes late

I never bother with people that I hate

That's why this chick is a tramp

She doesn't like crap games with barons or earls

Won't go to Harlem in ermine and pearls

And I definitely won't dish our dirt with the rest of those girls

That's why the lady is a tramp

I love the free, fresh wind in my hair

Life without care

I'm so broke

It's "oke"

I hate California, it's crowded and damp

That's why the lady is a tramp (I'm a tramp)

Sometimes I go to Coney Island

Oh the beach is divine

And I love the yankees

Jeter Is just fine

I follow Rodgers and Hart

She sings every line

That's why the lady is a tramp

I love the prize fight

That isn't a fake (no fakes)

And I love to rowboat with you and your wife in Central Park Lake

She goes to the opera and stays wide awake (yes, I do)

That's why this lady is a tramp

She likes the green (green) grass (grass) under her shoes

What can I lose?

'cause I got no dough! oh no?

I'm all alone when I'm blowing my nails

That's why the lady is a tramp

I love your free, fresh, I love your handkerchief in my hand

Life without care

But I'm so broke

That's "oke"

Hates California, it's cold and it's damp

That's why the lady is a tramp

That's why this lady is a tramp

That's why the lady is a tramp.