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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".
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 ...
Many songs are set in New York City or named after a location or feature of the city, beyond simply "name-checking" New York along with other cities. This is a dynamic list of songs and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Danny Clover narrated the tales of the Great White Way to the accompaniment of music by Wilbur Hatch and Alexander Courage, and the recreation of Manhattan's aural tapestry required the talents of three sound effects technicians (David Light, Ralph Cummings, Ross Murray). Bill Anders was the show's announcer, as was Joe Walters.
The YouTube puppet web comedy series Glove and Boots recorded a parody of the song, "New York, New York ft Johnny T", in 2015. [37] 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.
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.
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.
All of these songs, plus a live medley of "The Lady is a Tramp/Let's Get Away from It All" recorded at the Copacabana in May 1967, were included in the collection The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart: The Complete Recordings in 2002. The versions of "You Took Advantage of Me" and "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" included on the 2002 collection ...