BLUE
VELVET
TONY
BENNETT
SONGWRITERS:
LEE MORRIS & BERNIE WAYNE
COUNTRY:
u. s. a.
ALBUM: DUETS II
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR:2011
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. 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
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. His
work includes a collaboration with Lady Gaga,
having toured and recorded two albums together, Cheek to
Cheek(2014) and Love for Sale(2021).
He has won 20 Grammy Awards (including a Lifetime
Achievement Award presented in 2001) and two Primetime
Emmy Awards, and was named an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy
Center Honoree. Bennett has sold over 50 million
records worldwide.
In February 2021, it was revealed that
Bennett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's
disease in 2016. Due to the slow progression
of his illness, he continued to record, tour, and perform until his unrelated
retirement from concert performances in August 2021.
"Blue Velvet" is a popular song written and
composed in 1950 by Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris. A top 20 hit for Tony Bennett in its
original 1951 version, the song has since been re-recorded many
times, with a 1963 version by Bobby Vinton reaching Nº 1.
Songwriter Bernie Wayne was inspired to begin
writing "Blue Velvet" on a 1951 visit to Richmond, Virginia where he stayed at the Jefferson
Hotel: at a party at the hotel Wayne continually
caught sight of a female guest dressed in blue velvet with whom he would have a
holiday romance.
She wore blue velvet
Bluer than velvet was the night
Softer than satin was the light
From the stars
She wore blue velvet
Bluer than velvet were her eyes
Warmer than may her tender sighs
Love was ours
Ours a love i held
tightly
Feeling the rapture grow
Like a flame burning brightly
But when she left gone was the glow of
Blue velvet
But in my heart
there'll always be
Precious and warm a memory
Through the years
And i still can see blue velvet through my tears.
Precious and warm a
memory
Through the years
And i still can see blue velvet through my tears.
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