"For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business, the best exponent of a song. He excites me when I watch him. . . . He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more." - Frank Sinatra "As breezy and meaningful as one of his trademark songs as readers learn about the man by the company he kept and the heroes he worships. Bennett's ethereal still lifes and landscape paintings adorn...

The rags to riches story of Sophie Tucker, a superstar who ruled the worlds of vaudeville, Broadway, radio, TV, and Hollywood throughout the 20th century. Susan & Lloyd Ecker take you on a seven-year journey retracing Tucker's 60 year career in showbiz.

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett release their long-awaited collaborative album, which features handpicked selections from the Great American Songbook including Anything Goes; It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing); and Nature Boy.

"From his family's vast archives--a revelatory new pictorial life of the greatest entertainer of the twentieth century,"--Amazon.com.

Contains eighteen Cole Porter songs performed by a variety of artists, featuring Peggy Lee on "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," Louis Armstrong's version of "Let's Do It," and Dinah Washington's rendition of "I Get a Kick Out of You."

Frank Sinatra was the greatest entertainer of his age, invigorating American popular song with innovative phrasing and a mastery of drama and emotion. Drawing upon interviews with hundreds of his collaborators as well as with 'The Voice' himself, this book chronicles, critiques, and celebrates his five-decade career. Will Friedwald examines and evaluates all the classic and less familiar songs with the same astute, witty perceptions that earned him...