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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.
The first track on the album is the Rogers and Hart song. —Kevin Myers 04:28, 21 March 2009 (UTC) 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?
The second half is followed by "First We Take Manhattan" sung by Leonard Cohen. The song " The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning ", composed by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins for the soundtrack of Batman & Robin , although used in a promotional trailer, was not included on the soundtrack of Watchmen .
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in New York City, or a fictionalized version thereof.. The following is a list of films and documentaries set in New York, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city.
No Ordinary World is the seventeenth studio album by Joe Cocker, released on 8 October 1999 [2] in Europe and on 22 August 2000 in USA. The US edition of the album features two bonus tracks and has different cover artwork.
For the album's American release on Atlantic Records, R.E.M.'s rendition of "First We Take Manhattan" and House of Love's "Who by Fire" (the lead tracks on each side of the vinyl and cassette versions) were swapped so that R.E.M., one of the most popular American rock bands of the era, led the album. In all other countries where the album was ...
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I'll Take Manhattan is a 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 Zachary Amberville, the patriarch of the family, dies, the company is taken over by his unscrupulous ...