In 1986, Blake Edwards directed That's Life, a film starring Jack Lemon as a grumpy aging architect frustrated by his aches and pains and lost youth. Julie Andrews plays his wife, uncertain of her own health until the end of the movie. The score was written by Henry Mancini, who co-wrote with Leslie Bricusse the film's ending song, Life in a Looking Glass. It received an Oscar nomination for Best Music for an Original Song but lost to Take My Breath Away from Top Gun, with music by Giorgio Moroder and lyric by Tom Whitlock. Tony Bennett recorded the Life in a Looking Glass vocal.
In 1986, Tony knew all about the fear of getting on in one's years. He had turned 60 then and just released The Art of Excellence, his first album after re-signing with Columbia. What Tony didn't know at the time is that the album would mark the start of his historic 30-year comeback. Which makes his performance of this song, with Mancini conducting, all the more timely and heartfelt. Here's Tony singing Life in a Looking Glass...
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