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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 ...
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 found a lot of references in Google News archive to "take Manhattan" as referring to "take Manhattan Bridge", if that was a common enough phrase, it could have influenced the change to the lyric. Who then was a gentleman? 22:51, 20 March 2009 (UTC) IMDb has a 1967 TV pilot We'll Take Manhattan. Plot: "An inexperienced lawyer attempts to help ...
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.
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Jay Hilda Aston (born 4 May 1961 in Purley, Surrey) [2] is a British singer and occasional songwriter. She was a member of the British pop group Bucks Fizz from 1981 to 1985. She was the youngest member of the group's original line-up, aged 19 when they won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest . [ 3 ]