Friday, October 3, 2014

Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga 'Cheek to Cheek'

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga in July.
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga in July.
Singers Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga are sitting on top of Billboard’s Top Two Hundred Albums listTheir joint album of long-standing jazz hitsCheek to Cheek” was released September 23rd. 
Tony Bennett is now the oldest living artist to enter the Top 200 at number one.  He turned 88 in August.  The much younger Lady Gaga is enjoying her second number one album in less than a year
Cheek to Cheekpushed singer Barbara Streisand’s latest album, “Partners,” out of the top spot.  The album is also a collection of duets --- or songs produced with two performers.
Partners” is spending its second week out at number three on the chartCountry singer Kenny Chesney’s album “The Big Revivalentered the top 200 this week at number two.
Cheek to Cheekincludes songs from music greats Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn and others.  It opens with the humorous, lively Cole Porter songAnything Goes.” The 1934 song paints a picture of a world gone wild. It jokes about a modern society unrestrained in terms of public behavior and social interaction, especially between the sexes. Lady Gaga sings: In olden days a glimpse of stocking / was looked on as something shocking / but now, God knows / anything goes.


Words in this Story

jointadj. shared by two or more
topn. the upper edge or surface; the highest part; the cover of something adj. highest
humorousadj. funny
behaviorn. the way in which a person or animal acts

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