TV / FILM: TV Special: Tony and Lena in 1973

In London in July 1973, Tony Bennett and Lena Horne (above) performed an hour-long concert together before a live audience on BBC television. Later that year in September, ABC broadcast the British TV special in the U.S. The ratings were so strong that producers decided to book the pair into Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre the following fall for a 37-performance run of Tony Bennett and Lena Horne Sing…