American Idol Top 9: Performances  Episode Report Card Grade It
Now! Top 9: Performances In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a
nutshell description!  When it comes to singing a song and
telling a story, or in fact talking forever about nothing in
particular, we got Tony Bennett. He's spent sixty years having
hits in every decade, starting with 1950. 106 albums and $50M
worldwide sales, 15 Grammies and eighty years of age later, he's
a legend. He sings with Xtina and is beloved by Stevie, Barbra,
and Bono. His Duets is his biggest album ever. Everybody loves
him, he's a legend. He jumped on the "ironic cover" bandwagon
after everybody else had finally jumped off it, desperately
grasping for the tweener buck, and still couldn't equal the
emotional power in one pinkie toe of "Hurt." He represents a
bygone age when men were men and women were women, and he's
still stuck there, along with countless fans and members of the
Greatest Generation. Like so many of his fans and fans of the
show, he prefers to hear the song