When Lady Gaga recalls her aboriginal affair with golden-throated accompanist Tony Bennett, she still sounds impressed. She had just performed a set of pop hits and a awning of Nat King Cole's "Orange Colored Sky" – "a applesauce song," she credibility out – at the Robin Hood Foundation account bright in New York City in 2011, if she got chat he capital to see her afterwards the show. "He heard me sing that song, and he asked to accommodated me," she says now. "I said, 'Oh, my gosh, Tony Bennett's here.' And I was so nervous. I anchored my hair, and my mom was acclimation her makeup. We went aback to accommodated him, and he said, 'Do you wish to do a applesauce anthology together?' I said, 'Yes, of advance I do.' And we were fast accompany and accompany anytime since."
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Last night, Gaga and Bennett absolved side-by-side down a red carpet, with the above cutting a décolleté atramentous dress and the closing dressed in a tux and ear-to-ear smile, in New York City above-mentioned to singing calm at the Rose Theater at Applesauce at Lincoln Center. The concert, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek Live!, will air on PBS Abundant Performances this fall, and it preceded the advertisement of Cheek to Cheek, the singers' anthology of archetypal applesauce standards that is aswell advancing out in autumn.
Previously, Gaga and Bennett recorded "The Lady Is a Tramp" for the crooner's 2011 Duets II album. "She's as acceptable as Ella Fitzgerald," he said to Rolling Stone at the time (around which he aswell sketched her nude and joked about it on Gaga's Thanksgiving special). The brace began discussing authoritative a duets almanac calm as aboriginal as September 2012, and began recording in the bounce of 2013 admitting Gaga's hip injury. Now it's assuredly happening, mostly how they had been adage it would.
Although Bennett had reportedly told a French website that Gaga had accounting new actual for the album, accurately a song alleged "Paradise," Gaga told Rolling Stone on the red carpeting that the almanac would abide alone of standards, at atomic at this point. "It's all songs from the abundant American songbook," she says. "How did we aces the songs, Tony?"
"It's all the abundant songs of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, all the greatest composers," Bennett says. "No added country has anytime accustomed the blow of the apple so abounding arresting songs, and they're gonna reside forever. Wait 'til you acquisition out if she sings those songs."
"He capital me to sing a lot of altered songs," Gaga rejoins. But, she says she knows his favorite. "He absolutely brand if I sing 'Lush Life,'" she says, apropos to the Billy Strayhorn–penned accepted that has been recorded by anybody from Nancy Wilson and Sarah Vaughan to Donna Summer and Linda Ronstadt.
"It's appealing special," he says with a smile.
Gaga has been so taken with the acquaintance of authoritative Cheek to Cheek that, in June, she got a tattoo of a sketch Bennett had fabricated of Miles Davis' trumpet on her central appropriate bicep. On the red carpet, she says it's "just so I can consistently bethink this time together."
Earlier on the red carpet, Gaga's assistant Lady Starlight told Rolling Stone that, even admitting Gaga had said in an Instagram caption that she had been singing applesauce back age 13, she couldn't accept Gaga could sing applesauce the way she does. "I accept accepted her for about 10 years and accept heard aggregate she's done, and this is absolutely believable," Starlight said. "It just didn't complete like her singing; the superior of the voice, the phrasing, everything, it was so interesting. For me to apprehend her sing pop and bedrock ballads, it fabricated me accept added about her. I could apprehend how she afflicted her voice. It was a actual air-conditioned acquaintance for me."
Gaga's Cheek to Cheek collaborator, however, sees something abroad in his foil. "She phrases like I phrase," Bennett says on the carpet. "She's a admirable singer. Everybody knows and loves her actual much. I anticipate if they apprehend this anthology that we're doing, they're traveling to say, 'We had no abstraction that she sings that well.'"
Watch the music video for their yield on Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," aboriginal song from the new LP, below.
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