Well Tony Bennett was a very fine singer, and a great supporter of equality and human rights, but I'm not sure what he's doing here on Mudcat. My view, as a bit of a folkie, is that, like Crosby and Sinatra, he sang mostly awful, trivial songs superbly. I'm reminded of this quote from Woody Guthrie:

I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think that you've not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.

? Woody Guthrie