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"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.
As recounted in Ira Nadel's Various Positions, Cohen was at a Los Angeles warehouse to watch the filming of Jennifer Warnes's music video "First We Take Manhattan" and was photographed by publicist Sharon Weisz in his dark glasses, charcoal gray pin-striped suit, and white T-shirt chomping on a banana: "Sharon showed it to me later and it ...
Cohen's first album was Songs of Leonard Cohen. [37] [a] The album was released in the US in late 1967 to generally dismissive reviews, [38] but became a favourite in the UK on its release in early 1968, where it spent over a year on the album charts. [39] He appeared on BBC TV in 1968 where he sang a duet from the album with Julie Felix. [40]
"First We Take Manhattan" (1988) " Take This Waltz " is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen , originally released as part of the 1986 Federico García Lorca tribute album Poets in New York [ 1 ] and as a single.
Released in November 1986, Famous Blue Raincoat is a tribute to Leonard Cohen, with whom Warnes had toured as a backup singer in the 1970s.The album's songs span much of Cohen's career, from his 1969 album Songs from a Room to his 1984 album Various Positions (on which Warnes sang), and even two songs ("First We Take Manhattan" and "Ain't No Cure for Love") from Cohen's then-unreleased album I ...
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I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen is a tribute album to Leonard Cohen, released in 1991, produced by the French music magazine Les Inrockuptibles. [7] The album features Cohen's songs interpreted by some of the most respected rock acts of the time. [8] Its name is a play on the title of Cohen's album I'm Your Man.
After releasing a praised tribute LP of Leonard Cohen's songs in 1987, Famous Blue Raincoat, [4] to which Cohen contributed two new compositions, "First We Take Manhattan", which featured Stevie Ray Vaughan on guitar, and "Ain't No Cure for Love", she contributed vocals to Cohen's 1988 hit LP I'm Your Man, most notably to "Take This Waltz" and ...