found: Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Dinah Shore [SR] p1983:program notes (b. Aug. 1926, Astoria, Queens, N.Y.)
found: Tony Bennett [SR] p1986:notes (Anthony Dominick Benedetto; Joe Bari)
found: New Grove dic. of Am. music(Bennett, Tony; Benedetto, Anthony Dominick; Bari, Joe; b. Aug. 3, 1926, New York; popular singer)
found: New York Times WWW site, July 21, 2023(Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96; died Friday [July 21] at his home in Manhattan)
found: New York times, 22 July 2023:in a front page obituary (Tony Bennett; born Anthony Dominick Benedetto on Aug. 3, 1926 in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, grew up in Astoria, died Friday [July 21, 2023] in Manhattan [New York], aged 96; a singer whose melodic clarity, jazz-influenced phrasing, audience-embracing persona and warm, deceptively simple interpretations of musical standards helped spread the American songbook around the world and won him generations of fans; Mr. Bennett's career of more than 70 years was remarkable not only for its longevity, but also for its consistency; from his initial success as a jazzy crooner who wowed audiences at the Paramount in Times Square in the early 1950s, through his late-in-life duets with younger singers gleaned from a range of genres and generations, [Bennett] was an active promoter of both songwriting and entertaining as timeless, noble pursuits; when starting out before being drafted and serving in Germany during World War II, he performed at amateur shows using the stage name Joe Bari; during the mid-1970s when his relationship with Columbia soured, Mr. Bennett formed his own company, Improv Records which went out of business in 1977)