It was written for and performed in the film by Liza Minnelli. It remains one of the best-known songs about New York City. In it finished 31 on AFI's Years He occasionally performed it live with Minnelli as a duet. Sinatra recorded it a second time for his album Duets , with Tony Bennett. Minnelli's original recording of the song also used in the Tony Bennett version in Duets uses the following closing line:. The song did not become a popular hit until it was picked up in concert by Frank Sinatra during his performances at Radio City Music Hall in October It was not even nominated for the Academy Award for 'Best Song'. Subsequently, Sinatra recorded it in for his Trilogy set Reprise Records , and it became one of his signature songs.
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When the singer and songwriter Holly Humberstone began working with the writer and producer Rob Milton on her debut EP, they quickly arrived at a shorthand for the kinds of lyrics they were aiming for. What they land on, in song after song, is a striking blend of offhand conversation and acutely detailed storytelling, verses that feel like whispers into the ear of an intimate. Her lovely voice is fluttery and precise, and also oozy, hanging over her songs like low, enveloping fog.
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The city that's called The Big Apple has inspired some of the most memorable music ever written and recorded. Sinatra recorded it two years later, but since then his rendition has become the unofficial anthem of New York City. The only problem with the track was the level of inundation at NY sports stadiums, radio stations, and any public event expressing NYC pride, which left even some Jay-Z fans tired of his hit. You can tell by his attitude, Jay-Z is most definitely from New York.
Grew up in a town that was famous as a place of movie scenes Noise is always loud, there are sirens all around and the streets are mean If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere that's what they say Seeing my face in lights or my name in marquees found down on Broadway. Even if it ain't all it seems I got a pocketful of dreams aby I'm from New York! Concrete jungle where dreams are made of There's nothing you can't do, now you're in New York! On the avenue there ain't never a curfew ladies work so hard. Such a melting pot on the corner selling rock preachers pray to God Hail a gypsy cab takes me down from Harlem to the Brooklyn Bridge Someone sleeps tonight with a hunger far more than an empty fridge I'ma make it by any means, I got a pocketful of dreams baby I'm from New York! Concrete jungle where dreams are made of There's nothing you can't do now you're in New York! One hand in the air for the big city Street lights big dreams all looking pretty No place in the world that can compare. Put your lighters in the air everybody say Yeah! In New York!
