Last Of The Great Saloon Singers Dead In NY Age 96 Career Spanned 8 Decades https://apnews.com/article/tony-bennett-dies-c3b3a7e2360449fb936a38794c7c3266
EXCERPT: In December 1961, in the famous Venetian Room at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, Tony Bennett first sang "I Left My Heart in San Francisco".
I Left My 💔 in San Francisco - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Left_My_Heart_in_San_Francisco
"Saloon Singer" is what Frank Sinatra called himself, meaning that lyrics were as important to him as the music. That description fits the singers on this list whether they're commercially labeled jazz, country, folk, pop, musical theatre, or gospel.
-Jazz Singers-
Both Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney were proud exemplars of the saloon singing tradition. Even when they worked with masters of jazz improvisation, they stuck to the melody as written and sold the lyrics with deep sensitivity. Cleo Laine often veered several octaves away from the melody in her heyday, but she was equally exciting with just a piano and a set of good lyrics.
Lyrics The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gay The glory that was Rome is of another day I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan I'm going home to my city by the Bay I left my heart in San Francisco High on a hill, it calls to me To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars
The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care My love waits there in San Francisco Above the blue and windy sea When I come home to you, San Francisco
