Breaking: Tony Bennett, Grammy Award winning singer whose career spanned generations, has died at the age of 96.
how his music director, Ralph Sharon, found the song as they were headed to San Francisco for the first time. The two rehearsed it one afternoon at a nightclub in Little Rock, Arkansas:"And the bartender said, 'I don't wanna interrupt you two fellows, but if you ever record that, I'm gonna be the first guy to buy the record.
"I Left My Heart in San Francisco" was actually released as the B-side of Bennett's 1962 record,"Once Upon a Time." But it was that B-side that would win the Grammy for record of the year, and earn Bennett a Grammy for his performance. It became his signature tune.
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