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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.
"Theme from New York, New York", often abbreviated to just "New York, New York", is the theme song from the Martin Scorsese musical film New York, New York (1977), composed by John Kander, with lyrics by Fred Ebb. Liza Minnelli performs the song in the climax of the film. It was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
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.
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.
The original letter featuring the lyrics of "Auld Lang Syne" by the hand writing of Scottish poet Robert Burns is on display at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, December 9, 2011.
The title of the song is the same as the title of a 1971 biography of the director and producer Darryl F. Zanuck. [3]Katty At Law describes the piece as an "all-male number, taking place in a locker room with all the dancer boys wearing towels and yapping about how Marilyn is a pain-in-the-ass tomato."
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The lyrics describe how daylight has come, their shift is over, and they want their work to be counted up so that they can go home. The best-known version was released by American singer Harry Belafonte in 1956 (originally titled "Banana Boat (Day-O)" ) and later became one of his signature songs.