Song of the day for July 21, 2024
Body and Soul by Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse is today’s featured song.
On this day in 2023 American singer Tony Bennett died at his home in New York City just two weeks short of his 97th birthday, following seven years of Alzheimer’s disease. Bennett had the 1955 UK No.1 single ‘Stranger In Paradise’ and the 1965 UK No.25 single ‘I Left My Heart In San Francisco’. In 1998, Bennett made an unlikely but highly successful appearance on the final day of a mud-soaked Glastonbury Festival in the UK dressed in an immaculate suit and tie, his whole set on this occasion consisting of songs about the weather. Bennett and Amy Winehouse recorded the duet ‘Body and Soul’ in March 2011 – the final recording made by Winehouse before her death on July 23, 2011 at the age of 27. When the song charted on the Billboard Hot 100 it made Bennett, at age 85, the oldest living artist ever to chart on the Hot 100.
