❤ I Left My Heart in San Francisco: Tony Bennett, Iconic Singer, WW2 Vet, Lifelong Democrat

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Tony Bennett's memorable song about the beautiful city of San Fran. Bennet passed away on July 21, 2023, at age 96. His music lives on.
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- Anthony Dominick Benedetto (Aug. 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023), known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award, and 2 Primetime Emmy Awards.. He sold more than 50 million records worldwide and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He fought in the final stages of World War II as a U.S. Army infantryman in the European Theater, the Battle of the Bulge. Afterward, he developed his singing technique, signed with Columbia and had his first no.1 popular song with "Because of You" 1951. Several popular tracks followed, he then refined his approach to encompass jazz singing. Bennett reached an artistic peak in the late 1950s. In 1962, he recorded his signature song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco".. Civil Rights support...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Bennett
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🇺🇸 Wiki. The Greatest Generation, also known as the G.I. Generation and the World War II Generation, is the demographic cohort following the Lost Generation and preceding the Silent Generation. The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1901 to 1927.
They were shaped by the Great Depression and were the primary generation composing the enlisted forces in World War II.. The term was further popularized by the title of a 1998 book by American journalist Tom Brokaw...
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