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Virginia Sherwood/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Imagesat age 96 on the morning of July 21, 2023, the world lost one of the last vocal titans of the Great American Songbook.
Bennett – who was born Antonio Dominick Benedetto in Long Island, NY back when Calvin Coolidge was president – enjoyed an illustrious career that spanned nine decades.
“I just love the fact that in an era where everything’s based on youth, I can communicate with everybody — the young, the middle-aged and the old like me. I’m very content,”in 2016 of his cross-generational appeal.
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