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The musical introduced several popular and classic songs, among them "New York, New York", "Lonely Town", "I Can Cook, Too" (for which Bernstein also wrote the lyric), and "Some Other Time". The story concerns three American sailors on a 24-hour shore leave in New York City in 1944, during World War II.
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.
"Lonely Town" is a song from the 1944 musical On the Town.It was composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden.. It is performed in Scene 7 of Act 1 of the musical by the character Gabey, a sailor on shore leave, in the musical as he laments his loneliness despite being in the crowds of New York City.
On the Town is a 1949 American Technicolor musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.It is an adaptation of the Broadway stage musical of the same name produced in 1944 (which itself is an adaptation of the Jerome Robbins ballet, titled Fancy Free, also produced in 1944), [3] although many changes in the script and score ...
Leonard Bernstein in 1945, a year after On the Town was premiered. Edward Seckerson reviewed the album in Gramophone in October 1993. On the Town, he reminded his readers, was the first musical with a text by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and the first composed by Leonard Bernstein, yet was nevertheless "a peach of a show, a show which positively hums along on the heat of inspiration".
Last week, “Small Town” jumped to the No. 1 spot on Apple Music’s Top Songs and Music Videos charts, and since then streams for the song have spiked nearly 1,000%, from 987,000 to 11.7 ...
A Night on the Town was Stewart's last UK number-one studio album until Time in 2013. The album is regarded as one of Stewart's finest. " The Killing of Georgie " is one of Stewart's most hard-hitting sets of lyrics, a melancholic tale of a gay friend who is cast out by his family and becomes a sensation in the New York nightlife, only to be ...
Two Love Songs on Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke for Voice and Piano (1949) Silhouette (Galilee), for Voice and Piano (1951) On the Waterfront, for Voice and Piano (1954) Get Hep!, Marching Song written for the Tercentary of Michigan State College for Voice and Piano (1955) So Pretty, for Voice and Piano (1968)