A Kennedy Center Tribute to Tony Bennett (1926-2023)
– An artist with a voice you know in two seconds is Tony Bennett. (audience applauds) ♪ Love, I can make it ♪ ♪ For once in my life I’ve got someone who needs me ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey, someone ♪ – Tony’s family name is Benedetto, which means blessed one and it could not be more appropriate for a man who always has this beautiful, sweet light and sound glowing over him. ♪ Wait ’til you see that sunshine ♪ ♪ You ain’t something yet ♪ ♪ The best is yet to come ♪ – His essence
is to give, whether it’s his music, his painting, or just himself, and that’s enough. ♪ Let me sing forevermore, as long as I’m singing with you ♪ ♪ You are all I long for, all I worship and adore ♪ – Tony knows who he is, not just as a man, but as an artist. He knows that the Great American Songbook is our country’s 20th century musical treasure chest. ♪ And I think to myself ♪ ♪ What a wonderful world ♪ – What those songs need is someone to constantly redirect the beauty and the light that
comes from them to make us feel warm all over. He is a soulful messenger of American songs, always has and always will be, and that’s what Tony Bennett’s about. (audience
