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Tony Bennett Tickets-Reclaiming the Holiday Cheer?

Tony Bennett is going to try and squeeze all of the grinches out by Christmastime. It’s not really the grinches’ fault though. There are those un-payable mortgages, mounting student loans, layoffs galore and the prickly pear at the grocery store has doubled its price. So in the end, what suffers? The gifts, the toys, the big stuffed Elmo dolls and giant-jumbo sized packages of candy-canes. And the ham, what about the melt in your mouth honey-baked ham? Are we going to turn in droves to Subway sandwiches, or worse, start stockpiling cans of Spam?

Bloomingdales is against spam, and against record profit losses for that matter. The executives at the giant retail company have decided that there is only one man that can save Christmas, and he’s got a twinkling smile and cloudy white hair. Is it Saint Nick, you ask? Oh no…his stocks fell weeks ago. This jolly old man exudes Christmas warmth with his new holiday jingles found on A Swingin’ Christmas. Tony Bennett will perform when the holiday windows at Bloomingdales in New York City are introduced. Bennett stands as the centerpiece for Bloomingdales’ campaign to save Christmas, which they are marketing with the slogan, “Oh What Fun.” Will the promotion work? Will Tony Bennett be able to raise spirits and inject a little holiday joy into our bloodstreams? It’s still too early to tell, but Bloomingdales is certainly willing to take the bet and you can too, by checking out Tony Bennett tickets at http://www.stubhub.com.

Tony Bennett won the hearts of Americans after he found success in the 1950s and 1960s with his catchy renditions of pop music and jazz songs. Fans remember well songs like “Rags to Riches,” “Stranger in Paradise” and of course the unforgettable “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” Even through tough times, Bennett soldiered on, never once giving up on his adoring fans. He experienced a lull in sales when rock music became the preferred genre but staged an elaborate comeback in the 1980s with an unexpected audience: the younger crowd. His popularity kept rising on through the 1990s and 2000s. Today the talented big band singer has fans that span generations. A pair of tickets from http://www.stubhub.com/tony-bennett-tickets/ will allow you to enjoy a concert by a performer, whose success on the stage has enveloped decades.

Now, Bennett is being called upon once again. He is expected to rally the Christmas shopping base and inspire customers to come out in droves. The economy points to a pathetic holiday season, with many dejected Americans turning to a bottle of whiskey for warmth rather than the fireplace. But, in a statement Bennett gave to the New York Times, he claimed, “One thing about the holidays: no matter what happens, the holidays soften everybody.”

That is the sentiment that the execs at Bloomingdales want to believe in, and there certainly must be a bit of truth in Bennett’s beliefs. Sometimes after a painful thrashing on the stock markets, with weather storms on the horizon, and after weeks of eating into the cans of stockpiled Spams, Americans want to celebrate the holidays right: sitting by the fire, opening giant stuffed Elmos, smelling the savory hints of a honey-baked ham and listening to a classic Tony Bennett record.