Rags to Riches (song) recordings by Sunny & the Sunliners (#45 in 1963) and Elvis Presley (#33 in 1971) also made the Billboard charts. Tony Bennett's version was used at the beginning of the film "Goodfellas", just after Henry Hill closes the trunk of the car and says in voice-over, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." The song was also used in an episode of "Columbo". The opening line of the song was sung regularly and exuberantly by the character Carmine Ragusa on the television series "Laverne & Shirley", typically when he had good news. "Rags
Tony Bennett 1996. In 2007, another book involving his paintings, "Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music", became a best-seller among art books. Regarding his choices in music, Bennett reiterated his artistic stance in a 2010 interview: Bennett has won 20 Grammy Awards including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, as follows (years shown are the year in which the ceremony was held and the award was given, not the year in which the recording was released): Bennett has won two Emmy Awards, as follows (years shown are the year in which the ceremony was held and the award