Tony Bennett’s son reveals his last words before death: ‘Can’t say it better than that’

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the late music legend’s last words to him were, “Thank you.”The pop, jazz and big-band vocalist died July 21 at the age of 96 in his hometown of New York, his publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed to The Post.Tony Bennett’s wife, Susan Benedetto, whom he wed in 2007, and Danny Bennett sat for their first joint interview since the singer’s death.“Can’t say it better than that,” Bennett told Hoda Kotb on Aug.

3’s episode of the TODAY show.The singer’s eldest child, from Tony Bennett’s 20-year marriage with ex-wife Patricia Beech, remembered his late father as a “man of the people.”“And so we experienced that as kids,” said Bennett, mentioning that he and his family “never took that for granted … It was an amazing journey.”The father-and-son duo worked together closely.

Bennett worked as his father’s manager from 1971 to 2021, to help broaden the singer’s fanbase to a younger set he referred to as the “MTV Generation.”The younger Bennett remembered: “He came into my office one time.

And he said, ‘I was watching MTV.’ He goes, ‘I think I can do that.'”Danny Bennett took on the challenge, booking the jazz icon for performances attended by a new generation of music lovers.“I put him on these shows that were, you know, 60,000 kids at RFK Stadium, between Nine Inch Nails and PJ Harvey,” Danny admitted.“It was a little nerve-wracking,” he added.