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Tony Bennett
Solo artist Long Island City United States US jazz/standards vocalist
Tony Bennett is an artist from Long Island City. Tony Bennett has 6 chart appearances on 5 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 1993–2020. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I Left My Heart In San Francisco”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #784. The station that charted Tony Bennett most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1993.
Tony Bennett, born Anthony Dominick Benedetto in Long Island City in 1926, recorded "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" in 1962, and it became his signature song. He had already lived a lot by then: infantry service in Europe at the tail end of World War II, a Columbia contract, a first number-one with "Because of You" in 1951 and "Rags to Riches" after it. Then he leaned into jazz, and The Beat of My Heart and Strike Up the Band in the late '50s caught him at his artistic peak.
The rock years were lean ones for him, but the comeback that began in the late '80s was the real deal: gold albums again, and a whole MTV generation finding out that the old crooner could swing, with his style left exactly as it was. Steppin' Out, in 1993, with "Steppin' Out With My Baby", came out of that second wind.
The honors piled up, 20 Grammys among them, along with the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005 and the Gershwin Prize in 2017. Late in life he found an unlikely partner in Lady Gaga, starting with Cheek to Cheek in 2014, and their Love for Sale in 2021 stretched his run of top-10 albums to the longest span of any living artist. He revealed an Alzheimer's diagnosis that year, gave his final concerts at Radio City Music Hall that August, and died in 2023.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Tony Bennett on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Left My Heart In San Francisco | 2 | #784 | – | – | |
| 2 | Crazy Rhythm | 1 | #662 | – | – | |
| 3 | Smile | 1 | #471 | – | – | |
| 4 | Steppin' Out With My Baby | 1 | #105 | – | 1993 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1374 | I Left My Heart In San Francisco | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2012 | 471 | Smile | WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown |
| 2006 | 269 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
| 2001 | 662 | Crazy Rhythm | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2001 | 784 | I Left My Heart In San Francisco | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 1993 | 105 | Steppin' Out With My Baby | Live 105 Top 105 Songs of 1993 |
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