August 3 - Tony Bennett (The Musical Birthday Series, 2nd Annual Cycle)

Tony Bennett (b. 3 August 1926) is one of the great stylists of American popular song.

[For last year's verse, also on Mr. Bennett, click here.]

Toney Tony

A singer named Bennett (called Tony)

Was trained before tuning was phony.

He did all his crooning

Without Auto-Tuning

Because in those years

Your tuned with your ears,

And not pitch-adjusting baloney.

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