[Applause] uh my next guest is truly one of the great singers of all time his latest album
which i have a copy of right here is called the art of excellence and this man can be
seen in person on the 10th and 11th of may right across the street here in manhattan
at radio city music hall here now singing james taylor's james taylors everybody has
the blues right paul yeah okay it's a pleasure to welcome to this show tony bennett
[Applause]
hey paul [Music] i feel so bad i guess you're thinking no one ever felt so bad before ah
come on tony join the club
everybody got the blues [Music] everybody gets the blues [Music]
everybody knows the way that you feel today [Music] everybody gets to sit and cry [Music]
everybody gets to wonder why
everybody gets to watch that sky turned grey [Music]
now some people lose their jobs all right
some fellas lose that girl [Music] maybe i feel like i'm losing my mind but that's not
the end of the world [Music]
everybody gets to feel something
everybody gets caught out in the rain
everybody has some days that they can't explain play the blues fall play the blues play the
blues
[Music] one more time one more time
wow
[Music] dallas even j.r gets the blues
sometimes even david letterman gets the blues from paying all those dudes tv anchor people
they even get the blues from reading all that news everybody everybody everybody gets the
blues
[Music] rachaels [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]
come on over tony
thanks paul
that was great that was that was a lot of fun it wasn't it really was that was exciting
getting right down to it thank you very much for being here it's really a thrill for us
to have you here thank you uh you're going to be working across the street at radio city
musical i'm guessing you've been there before big one other times another time when was
that oh yeah yeah that was a lot of fun uh are you gonna be nervous now 5800 folks you
know usually i i do get slight butter flies before a show but boy you get a big gulp at
radio city you go out there and there's 5 800 seats and that magnificent theater that
vincente minnelli designed and it's a great thrill to be there it'd be a lot of fun i'm
sure yeah they've commissioned me to sing all the great songs that were introduced right
at radio city in uh the movies that we're playing all the famous movies right through
the years and boy what a great selection of songs yeah that'll be nice you also now this
is interesting this man unless uh i've got some bum information here you were if not
the first one of the first people to to walk across the triboro bridge here in new york
is that right how did you get that is that true that's really true yes uh my uncle was
commissioner libraries in queens and uh he knew the two biggest men in the world at the
time franklin roosevelt and mae laguardia and my mom explained it to me because i was
six years old at the time and she told me about it through the years and we cut the
ribbon and all of the citizens of new york city marched across the triboro bridge yeah
do you have do you have any vivid memories of that day i was only six years old i had
very little recall it doesn't when you when you cross the bridge now it means nothing
to you it means a lot no i still get goosebumps just from hearing those stories do you have
to pay when you get to the other end you have to pay yes well that stinks doesn't it especially
when they said that it would be all cleared up in five years and no one would have to
pay for it uh now when you when you first started out singing you weren't always uh
tony bennett where you were somebody else for a while no you know you started on an
amateur and i in those days you had to have a name that was easily recognizable and it
was joe barry joe berry now why joe berry b-a-r-r-y well because i was an amateur and
i didn't know any better you know [Laughter] that barry is where my people came from and
uh the italian you know from calabria yeah and when did you switch it why did you switch
it well bob hope said hey wait a minute that's that sounds kind of plastic that name he said
what's your real name i said anthony dominic benedetto he said well let's uh americanize
it and call you tony bennett he came out on the paramount stage and announced me that
way and then show business we're all a little superstitious so uh when he did that it worked
so well i just kept it in a sense why not i want to show this now this was i thought
this was a very nice gesture on your part because as i mentioned we have not really
met before tonight and this past holiday season i received up in the office this painting
oh thank you from from you this is something you do you're you're yeah and this is now
what are we looking at there what is that that's the south of france and uh it's a painting
that carrie grandpa at the original of and it's a this is a trend of a painting now what
did the original go for a lot of money big dough yeah how long have you been painting
uh well i've been painting my whole life but i'm thrilled that at the end of 85 when this
painting was released as a print it just everything started happening for me well that's only
constant so with my paintings and said bring your paintings along on the show and that
started it all happening but what i have here is a copy that's a copy
uh gee tony it was uh really a thrill to have you here and to uh sorry i said the wrong
no no no no no no but i mean it was a great fun to hear you with paul in the band anytime
you want to do that again if you're around next week or something drop in and we'll come
up with another blues for you it sounded great thank you very much tony bennett ladies and
gentlemen we'll be back here with george miller
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