Review - - Tony Bennett - - Duets: An American Classic

• "Lullaby Of Broadway" featuring the Dixie Chicks
• "Smile" featuring Barbra Streisand
• "Put On A Happy Face" featuring James Taylor
• "The Good Life" featuring Billy Joel
• "The Shadow Of Your Smile" featuring Juanes
• "Rags to Riches" featuring Elton John
• "The Very Thought Of You" featuring Paul McCartney
• "Cold, Cold Heart" featuring Tim McGraw
• "If I Ruled The World" featuring Celine Dion
• "The Best Is Yet To Come" featuring Diana Krall
• "For Once In My Life" featuring Stevie Wonder
• "Are You Havin' Any Fun" featuring Elvis Costello
• "Because Of You" featuring k.d. lang
• "Just In Time" featuring Michael Bublé
• "The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" featuring Sting
• "I Wanna Be Around" featuring Bono
• "Sing, You Sinners" featuring John Legend
• "I Left My Heart In San Francisco"
• "How Do You Keep The Music Playing?" featuring George Michael

NEW YORK (RPM Records/ Columbia Records/www.tonybennett.net) - Tony Bennett will mark his 80th Birthday on August 3 this year, launching the beginning of a multi-tiered celebration honoring this milestone. RPM Records/Columbia Records will release a new recording, TONY BENNETT: DUETS/An American Classic, which will be in-stores internationally on September 26. Recorded live in the studio, the CD features Tony performing duets of his best loved songs with many of the top names in music: Bono, Michael Buble, Elvis Costello, Dixie Chicks, Juanes, Billy Joel, Diana Krall, k.d. lang, John Legend, Paul McCartney, George Michael, Sting, Barbra Streisand, James Taylor and Stevie Wonder. Instrumental musical guests on the album include trumpeter Chris Botti and violinist Pinchas Zukerman.

"I was on the road all last year and there is nothing like that live dynamic, so working live in the studio with Tony has been a great experience," commented John Legend, who received the "Best New Artist" Grammy Award the night before recording his duet with Tony. "I would like to try that for my own recordings."

Tony Bennett, who first joined Columbia Records in 1950, has been signed to the label longer than any other recording artist in its history. With over 50 million records sold worldwide, more than 100 recordings to his credit and thirteen Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Grammy Album of the Year Award, Bennett's career is unparalleled in the industry.