New York In Words And Music (digipack)

Various Artists

New York is a city of cities, a melting pot of nations, a hodgepodge of creeds, accents, tongues, colors, and customs. It is a city of crazy dimensions. There is the low-slung, ramshackle Swing Alley and Strip Lane jammed against the towering seventy-story sweep of glass and concrete that proudly crowns the Rockefeller Center, to name but a few of the contrasts in New York City. New York is a welter of clashes, both cultural and social. There is the sixteen- mile Broadway, the longest street in the world, a fantastic paradox of elegant shops and blaring honky-tonks, where one hundred-andfifty dollar alligator bags are sold a few blocks from a flea circus, where glittering stars are seen at theatre time at the Hayden Planetarium on Central Park West. This CD is a celebration of all that New York has to offer.


Tracklisting:

1. My Kind of Town 3:43 FRANKIE RANDALL
2. New York City Blues 3:17 PEGGY LEE
3. The Brooklyn Bridge 2:35 FRANK SINATRA
4. Uptown Blues 3:20 GEORGE WILLIAMS and His Orch.
5. Autumn in New York 3:41 BILLIE HOLIDAY
6. There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York 4:51 LOUIS ARMSTRONG
7. Penthouse Serenade 3:05 NAT KING COLE
8. Sidewalks of New York 3:15 DUKE ELLINGTON and His Orch.
9. Manhattan 3:23 LEE WILEY
10. Sax Fifth Avenue 2:23 PLAS JOHNSON
11. Big City 3:11 ERNIE ANDREWS
12. Penthouse Serenade 2:56 DAVID ALLEN
13. Lullaby of Birdland 4:50 MEL TORMÉ
14. 7th Avenue Express 3:01 NAT PIERCE and His Orch.
15. Take the “A” Train 2:41 MORGANA KING
16. Harlem Nocturne 3:25 ILLINOIS JACQUET
17. Stompin’ at the Savoy 3:08 MAXINE SULLIVAN
18. Forty-Second Street 3:13 THE BOSWELL SISTERS
19. Broadway 2:56 COUNT BASIE and His Orchestra
20. Lullaby of Broadway 2:50 DORIS DAY
21. Autumn in New York 3:15 FRANK SINATRA
22. Rhapsody in Blue 3:32 NEAL HEFTI and His Orch.
23. I Happen to Like New York 3:00 RALPH BURNS and His Orch. & Chorus
24. New York, New York 3:41 FRANK SINATRA, JULES MUNSHIN and GENE KELLY