--- title: Tony Bennett Just Secured a Very Obscure Guinness Record description: The famous crooner just won himself a new Guinness World Records title, thanks to his latest collaboration with Diana Krall. canonical: https://time.com/5395612/tony-bennett-guinness-record/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-13T19:30:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:50.607Z og:title: Tony Bennett Just Locked Down a Very Obscure Guinness Record og:description: It all has to do with the jazz standard "Fascinating Rhythm" og:url: https://time.com/5395612/tony-bennett-guinness-record/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt06cb80dc2b6c5b6f/69893a2a656a3f05ccbd578a/tony-bennett-record.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Tony Bennett And Diana Krall Celebrate Release Of Their New Album og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tony Bennett Just Locked Down a Very Obscure Guinness Record twitter:description: It all has to do with the jazz standard "Fascinating Rhythm" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt06cb80dc2b6c5b6f/69893a2a656a3f05ccbd578a/tony-bennett-record.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Tony Bennett Just Locked Down a Very Obscure Guinness World Record > Sponsored content. 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Singer Tony Bennett performs as he celebrates the release of a new album with Jazz pianist/singer Diana Krall at The Rainbow Room on September 12, 2018 in New York City. Mike Coppola—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 13, 2018 7:30 PM UTC At 92, iconic jazz crooner [Tony Bennett](http://time.com/4142581/tony-bennett-frank-sinatra/) is still setting records. His latest: the timeless singer just nabbed a Guinness World Records title this week for “longest time between the release of an original recording and a re-recording of the same single by the same artist.” The song is “Fascinating Rhythm,” a beloved jazz standard. And the time? 68 years and 342 days, according to the Guinness adjudicator who presided over the record-setting. “Fascinating Rhythm” was originally written by [George and Ira Gershwin](http://time.com/3916642/america-songwriting-history/) in 1924, and has been covered by music greats like Fred Astaire, Ella Fitzgerald and The Carpenters over the years, among many others. Bennett himself put out his original recording [back in 1949](https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8468593/tony-bennett-fascinating-rhythm-diana-krall-debut-single) of the upbeat American Songbook tune. This year, he followed it up by including the song on his new album _Love Is Here to Stay_, a collaborative project between Bennett and jazz singer Diana Krall that comes out on Sept. 14\. (Bennett also has a history of successful duet albums: 2014’s _Cheek to Cheek_ with [Lady Gaga](http://time.com/3651456/watch-lady-gaga-and-tony-bennett-sing-cheek-to-cheek/) topped charts and won Grammys.) Over his lengthy career, Bennett has proved himself to be quite a record-setter; this is actually his third Guinness title. He was the oldest person to top a U.S. album chart, thanks to _Cheek to Cheek_; and he also received kudos as the artist with the longest time between U.K. top 20 albums, according to Universal Music Group. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5395612/tony-bennett-guinness-record/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5395612/tony-bennett-guinness-record/"},"headline":"Tony Bennett Just Locked Down a Very Obscure Guinness World Record","datePublished":"2018-09-13T19:30:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:50.607Z","description":"It's his third Guinness World Record","url":"https://time.com/5395612/tony-bennett-guinness-record/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt06cb80dc2b6c5b6f/69893a2a656a3f05ccbd578a/tony-bennett-record.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt06cb80dc2b6c5b6f/69893a2a656a3f05ccbd578a/tony-bennett-record.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tony Bennett And Diana Krall Celebrate Release Of Their New Album","caption":"Tony Bennett And Diana Krall Celebrate Release Of Their New Album","creditText":"Mike Coppola—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5395612/tony-bennett-guinness-record/","name":"Tony Bennett Just Locked Down a Very Obscure Guinness World Record"}}]}] ```