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Manhattan is the original motion picture soundtrack to Woody Allen's 1979 film Manhattan with music by George Gershwin. It was performed by the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas. It was nominated for Best Soundtrack in the 33rd British Academy Film Awards.
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".
The highest numbered street on Manhattan Island is 220th Street, but Marble Hill is also within the borough of Manhattan, so the highest street number in the borough is 228th Street. The numbering system continues in the Bronx , up to 263rd Street, though east of Van Cortlandt Park the system ends at 243rd Street. [ 1 ]
Judy Garland recorded the song for her 1962 album The Garland Touch, [2] while Caterina Valente recorded the song as the title track of her 1964 album. The song opens the 1987 Liza Minnelli live album At Carnegie Hall. [3] A 1973 recording by Bobby Short from the album Live at the Café Carlyle [4] was used in the 1993 film Manhattan Murder ...
Philadelphia's 10th Street written in English and Chinese. A numbered street is a street whose name is an ordinal number, as in Second Street or Tenth Avenue.Such forms are among the most common street names in North America, but also exist in other parts of the world, especially in Colombia, which takes the system to an extreme, and the Middle East.
"Manhattan Roll" by Telephone Bill and the Smooth Operators "Manhattan Romance" by Morris Stoloff "Manhattan Rumble (49th Street Massacre)" by Electric Light Orchestra "Manhattan Safari" by Al Hirt "Manhattan-Scheng" by Embryo "Manhattan Serenade" music by Louis Alter and lyrics by Harold Adamson, covered by various artists
Film released in 1982 [1] though Elfman has said he wrote the music in 1980 [2] In addition to composing the score and songs with the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, Elfman arranged and performed Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" with new lyrics as the character Satan [3] 1985 Pee-wee's Big Adventure: Tim Burton: Warner Bros. Aspen Film ...
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