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The song describes, in several choruses, the simple delights of Manhattan for a young couple in love. The joke is that these "delights" are really some of the worst, or cheapest, sights that New York has to offer; for example, the stifling, humid stench of the subway in summertime is described as "balmy breezes", while the noisy, grating pushcarts on Mott Street are "gently gliding by".
"First We Take Manhattan" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. It was originally recorded by American singer Jennifer Warnes on her 1986 Cohen tribute album Famous Blue Raincoat , which consisted entirely of songs written or co-written by Cohen.
I'll Take Manhattan is a four-part 1987 American television miniseries, adapted from Judith Krantz's 1986 novel of the same name. Screened by CBS, it tells the story of the wealthy Amberville family, who run their own publishing company in New York. After the death of the patriarch of the family, the company is taken over by his unscrupulous ...
I'll Take Manhattan: Broadway Is My Beat, a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. [1] ... Bern Bennett was the original announcer.
"Manhattan" was done as a duet with Florence Ballard and Diana Ross. They promoted the album as special guest stars in an hour-long tribute to Rodgers & Hart on a network television special. The album peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard R&B Album chart and at No. 20 on the magazine's more heterogeneous Top 200 chart.
There's a 1925 Rogers and Hart song commonly called "I'll Take Manhattan". Could that be the source ? StuRat 13:27, 20 March 2009 (UTC) According to that link, that wasn't the original title (it doesn't say when it become the commonly used title) and the lyrics don't include the phrase "take Manhattan", so I'm not convinced.
Allen Richard Toussaint (/ ˈ t uː s ɑː n t /; January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer.He was an influential figure in New Orleans rhythm and blues from the 1950s to the end of the century, described as "one of popular music's great backroom figures."
I'll Take Manhattan is a 1986 novel by American author Judith Krantz, [1] originally published on April 20, 1986, by Crown Publishers. [2] It has been described as Krantz's best novel because it is the one most closely rooted in her own experience as a writer and socialite.