Tony Bennett left his heart to generations of music fans

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Bennett, who died at 96 on Friday, was indeed 'the last of the great saloon singers of the mid-20th century,' as Charles J. Gans wrote for The Associated Press. Yet that summation befits a man frozen in time, consigned to a specific era, and Tony Bennett was anything but that.

Oh, and Aretha Franklin, k.d. lang, Bono and Billy Joel. Not to mention Carrie Underwood, Judy Garland, John Legend and Placido Domingo. And let's not forget...

He was also admired by those who, if they left their hearts in San Francisco, it was at the corner of Haight-Ashbury, or a trendy dance club. Many of Bennett's successful late-career duets were a tribute to the savvy marketing of his son and manager, Danny, who kept his dad's career going long past most peers hit their expiration date.Don't think they didn't notice the sweet and tender manner he brought to the studio working with people like Lady Gaga and Amy Winehouse, Folds said. Bennett's duet with Winehouse on "Body and Soul" was the last studio recording she made before she died.

"He was a place of refuge for the American songbook," lang told the Associated Press. "He made sure that he loved a song. He would not sing any song that he didn't love." In all of the work he did with contemporary artists, he never sounded age inappropriate, said music critic Jim Farber. Bennett always bent them to his musical will, never the other way around, he said.

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