" The Lady's in Love with You" (Solo by Tony)." It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"." Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" (Solo by Gaga)."How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" (Solo by Tony).The DVD and Blu-ray editions include additional songs originally not aired on television including, " They All Laughed", " The Lady's in Love with You", " Goody Goody", " Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered", " Don't Wait Too Long" and " Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye". I just want to spread that around the world.Songs set to be featured during the special, which features classic selections from the Great American Songbook, are " It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)", " Sophisticated Lady", " Lush Life", " Anything Goes", " Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", and the title track from their album, Cheek to Cheek.
"It's really of another time, and I hope with this music we can bring back that sentiment of love, kindness and joy that I'm getting to experience working with him every day. "He calls me 'Lady,' and when I walk in the room, he stands up and so do all his friends. "There might be 60 years between me and Tony, but there's no distance between us when we sing jazz," says Gaga, who praises the crooner as a true gentleman. The admiration is mutual between Gaga, 28, and Bennett, who turns 88 next week.
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"She's so uninhibited and talented, and has a wonderful talent of knowing how to improvise very well. "The reason I chose to do (this project) with her is to show how wonderful she really sings," Bennett says. Gaga and Bennett will promote the new album with a PBS Great Performances concert special, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE!, filmed in New York Monday night and slated to air Oct. The pair has dropped numerous hints about what to expect: They performed together recently at Montreal Jazz Festival and New York's Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, and Gaga posted studio snapshots to Instagram, captioned "Studio Rattin' with the Bennett Boys" and "It's a Standard night #CheekToCheek." Recorded over the past two years amid Gaga's Artpop release last November and ongoing ArtRave world tour, the set has been highly anticipated since the duo collaborated on the sultry The Lady Is a Tramp, off Bennett's Grammy Award-winning 2011 album Duets II. "It's got this real sexy, powerful vibe to it, and it's just because we're having fun singing it." "I'm familiar with all the songs in the Great American Songbook, but we thought that this song was so much fun and we love singing it together," she says of the duet.
Gaga is no stranger to the Cole Porter classic, covered by Bennett more than 50 years ago on his 1959 album Strike Up the Band and introduced to the pop sensation as a 13-year-old, when she began performing jazz. The first song off the album, Anything Goes, goes on sale at iTunes Tuesday.
It's safe to say that anything goes in Lady Gaga's world, where slabs of meat become dresses and giant eggs are modes of transportation.Īlways one to keep her Little Monsters guessing, the eccentric singer is trading in her provocative pop melodies for the Great American Songbook, teaming with close friend Tony Bennett for an album of jazz standards called Cheek to Cheek, out Sept.