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The song seems to have first been recorded (as "Tomato") in New York in 1949, by singer June Nelson, with her piano and trio, and with Manning credited as the writer. The recording was listed as a calypso, and was released by Herb Abramson's Jubilee Records, catalogue number 5014.
The song is most famous for its "You like to-may-to / t ə ˈ m eɪ t ə / / And I like to-mah-to / t ə ˈ m ɑː t ə /" and other verses comparing British and American English pronunciations of tomato and other words. The differences in pronunciation are not simply regional, however, but serve more specifically to identify class differences.
The song's title comes from an art compilation by Underworld's design company, Tomato. [1] The title included an ellipsis between the first two words when it appeared on the 1993 single, but it is then written without an ellipsis on the Dubnobasswithmyheadman album [2] and on the band's compilation albums. [3] [4] [5]
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Sheet music for "New York, New York" from On the Town "New York, New York" is a song from the 1944 musical On the Town and the 1949 MGM musical film of the same name. The music was written by Leonard Bernstein and the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. A well known line of this song is: New York, New York, a helluva town.
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The YouTube puppet web comedy series Glove and Boots recorded a parody of the song, "New York, New York ft Johnny T", in 2015. [36] Sung by the character Johnny T (a New Yorker frog), the parody is a more cynical take about the modern New York City, with lyrics about gentrification and rising cost of living forcing residents to move out.
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