NYC: Most Romanticized City In Song

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By Chosen One Returns on Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 12:07 am:

    From pop to rock, jazz to classical, NYC has inspired & produced more composers than any other city in the world. The Big Apple literally means hub of media/music. The term surfaced during the '30s, among black musicians, who regarded NYC as the ultimate place to perform: "There are so many apples on the tree, but to play New York City is to play the Big Time...the Big Apple!"

    From Radio City Music Hall & The World famous Rockettes to Carnegie Hall, from MSG (Madison Square Garden - world's most famous concert & sports venue) to Lincoln Center, from Simon & Garfunkel (sweet Jewish NYers) to George & Ira Gershwin (b. Gershowitz, sweet Jewish NYers), from the birthplace and home to MTV studios & TRL to VMAs at Radio City, from the former home to the Grammy Awards to the Rock 'n' Roll HOF induction ceremony at the famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel, from the Beatles at Shea to the Beatles on Ed Sullivan (studio is now home to Late Show With David Letterman), from Woodstock (world's most famous rock concert) to CBGB (birthplace of punk - ala The Ramones, sweet Joey Ramone (b. Jeffery Hyman, NYC) was recently honored with his own NYC street name, from Studio 54 (world's most famous disco, now home to Broadway's "Cabaret") to The Cotton Club (formerly), from the world's most listened to oldies station (WCBS FM - home to the only living DJ who has a street named after him - Cousin Brucie (Morrow) Way (b. Meyerowitz, sweet Jewish NYer) in Manhattan, NY has always been center stage for the world's greatest musicians, musical events & venues. With that said, I give to you a taste of some of the great homages to NY:

    Irving Berlin - "A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN BROOKLYN"
    Billy Joel - "NY STATE OF MIND," "MIAMI 2017" (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)
    Sex Pistols - "NEW YORK"
    Prince - "ALL THE CRITICS LOVE U IN NY"
    Pete Townshend - "BROOKLYN KIDS"
    Bob Dylan - "HARD TIMES IN NY," "TALKING NY," "BROWNSVILLE GIRL"
    Dion & The Belmonts - "BROOKLYN DODGER (I USED TO BE A), "SPANISH HARLEM INCIDENT," "KING OF THE NY STREETS," "NYC SONG"
    Al Stewart - "IN BROOKLYN," "BROADWAY HOTEL"
    New York Dolls - "NY DOLL"
    Rolling Stones -"HEARTBREAKER," "SHATTERED," "HARLEM SHUFFLE, MISS YOU," "WHEN THE WHIP COMES DOWN," "DANCE (PT. 1), "DO YOU REALLY THINK I CARE?" (aka YELLOW CAB)
    Elton John - "EMPTY GARDEN"
    John Lennon - "NEW YORK CITY," "CENTRAL PARK STROLL"
    Rascals - "SAGA OF NY"
    Veruca Salt - "NY MINING DISASTER 1996"
    John Coltrane - "CENTRAL PARK WEST," "WEST 42ND STREET"
    Neil Diamond - "BROOKLYN ROADS"
    Ramones - "ROCKAWAY BEACH," "53RD & 3RD"
    Lou Reed - "CONEY ISLAND BABY," "NEW YORK TELEPHONE CONVERSATION," "WALK ON THE WILD SIDE," "NYC MAN"
    Don Henley - "NY MINUTE"
    R. Kelly - "GOTHAM CITY"
    Beastie Boys - "NO SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN," "HELLO BROOKLYN"
    Beck - "HIGH 5" (ROCK THE CATSKILLS)
    Big Head Todd & The Monsters - "ELLIS ISLAND"
    Al Jolson - "SHE'S A LATIN FROM MANHATTAN"
    America - "5TH AVENUE"
    Malcolm Mclaren - "42ND STREET"
    Stevie Wonder - LIVING FOR THE CITY
    Janis Ian - "42ND STREET PSYCHO BLUES"
    Dave Brubeck - "SPRING IN CENTRAL PARK," "BROADWAY BOSSA NOVA," "BROADWAY WALTZ"
    Branford Marsalis - "BROADWAY FOOLS"
    Judy Garland - "JOINT IS REALLY JUMPIN' DOWN AT CARNEGIE HALL"
    Fleetwood Mac - "EMPIRE STATE"
    David Bowie - NEW YORK'S IN LOVE"
    Alice Cooper - "BIG APPLE DREAMING"
    Frank Zappa - "NYC HALLOWEEN AUDIENCE"
    Kid Creole & The Coconuts - "CHRISTMAS ON RIVERSIDE DRIVE"
    Ray Charles - "NEW YORK'S MY HOME"
    Kid Rock - "NEW YORK'S NOT MY HOME"
    Grover Washington Jr. - "EAST RIVER DRIVE"
    Daryl Hall - "NYC,NY"
    Sweet - "BIG APPLE WALTZ"
    Trammps - "PENGUIN AT THE BIG APPLE"
    Yardbirds - "NYC BLUES"
    Aerosmith - "BONE TO BONE" (CONEY ISLAND WHITE FISH BOY), "NO SURPRIZE"
    Greg Khin - "MADISON AVENUE"
    Marianne Faithfull - "TIMES SQUARE"
    Eddie Fisher - "NEW YEAR'S EVEN ON TIMES SQUARE"
    Charlie Mingus - "NOSTALGIA IN TIMES SQUARE"
    Tito Puente - "NOSTALGIA IN TIMES SQUARE"
    Tony, Toni, Tone! - "TIMES SQUARE 2:30 AM"
    Blues Traveler - "DROPPING SOME NYC," "NEW YORK PROPHESIE"
    Grandmaster Mele Mel - "NY - LA"
    Leonard Cohen - "FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN"
    Electric Light Orchestra - "MANHATTAN RUMBLE" (49th Street Massacre)
    Clash, The - "LIGHTNING STRIKES" (NOT ONCE BUT TWICE), "BROADWAY"
    Sonic Youth - "NYC GHOSTS & FLOWERS"
    Soul Asylum - "NEW YORK BLACKOUT"
    Sammy Davis Jr - "NEW YORK CITY BLUES," "NEW YORK'S MY HOME"
    Count Basie - "NEW YORK CITY BLUES," "BROADWAY"
    Duke Ellington - "SIDEWALKS OF NY," "WALL STREET WAIL," "HARLEM," "HARLEM FLAT BLUES," "HARLEM SPEAKS"
    Lionel Hampton - "HARLEM"
    Rick Wakeman - "HARLEM SLALOM"
    Marshall Crenshaw - "ROCKIN' AROUND IN NYC"
    Ac/Dc - "SAFE IN NYC"
    Ace Frehley - "NEW YORK GROOVE"
    Harry Nilsson - "I GUESS THE LORD MUST BE IN NYC"
    Frank Sinatra - "NEW YORK, NEW YORK," "AUTUMN IN NY," "BROOKLYN BRIDGE"
    Paul Simon - "ONLY LIVING BOY IN NY"
    Art Garfunkel - "A HEART IN NY," "JUST OVER THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE"
    Sting - "AN ENGLISHMAN IN NY"
    Genesis - "BACK IN NYC," "BROADWAY MELODY OF 1974"
    Fun Lovin' Criminals - "KING OF NEW YORK," "CONEY ISLAND GIRL"
    Wu Tang Clan - "LIVE FROM NY, "BRONX WAR STORIES" Ad Lib - "THE BOY FROM NYC"
    Manhattan Transfer - "THE BOY FROM NYC"
    Simon & Garfunkle - "THE 59TH STREET BRIDGE SONG (Feelin' Groovy)," "THE BOXER," "A HEART IN NEW YORK"
    The Drifters - "ON BROADWAY"
    Cat Stevens -"NEW YORK TIMES"
    Steely Dan - "BROOKLYN (OWES THE CHARMER UNDER ME)," "BAD SNEAKERS," "BIG NOISE, NEW YORK," "DADDY DON'T LIVE IN THAT NYC NO MORE"
    Stanley Jordan - "BROOKLYN"
    Billy Idol - "HOT IN THE CITY"
    Ben E. King - "SPANISH HARLEM"
    Cole Porter - "I HAPPEN TO LIKE NY," "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" (The New Yorkers)
    Liza Minelli - "I HAPPEN TO LIKE NY," "NEW YORK, NEW YORK"
    George M. Cohan - "GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY"
    Pet Shop Boys - "NYC BOY"
    Dean Martin - "EV'RY STREET'S A BOULEVARD IN OLD NY"
    Christopher Cross - "ARTHUR'S THEME" (The Best That You Can Do)
    Fear - "NEW YORK'S ALRIGHT IF YOU LIKE SAXOPHONES"
    Molly Hatchet - "BIG APPLE"
    Bee Gee's - "NIGHTS ON BROADWAY," "NY MINING DISASTER 1941," "ANOTHER LONELY NIGHT IN NY," "STAYIN' ALIVE," "WIND OF CHANGE"
    U2 - "NEW YORK," "ANGEL OF HARLEM"
    Louis Armstrong - "AUTUMN IN NY," "HARLEM AIR SHAFT," "THERE'S A BOAT DAT'S LEAVIN' SOON FOR NY"
    George Gershwin - "THERE'S A BOAT DAT'S LEAVIN' SOON FOR NY"
    Harry Belafonte - "THERE'S A BOAT DAT'S LEAVIN' SOON FOR NY"
    Charlie Parker -"AUTUMN IN NY"
    Billie Holiday -"AUTUMN IN NY"
    Harry Connick Jr. - "AUTUMN IN NY"
    Bobby Short - "AUTUMN IN NY, " "MANHATTAN," "UPPER MADISON AVENUE BLUES," "BROADWAY," "NEW YORK, NEW YORK "(It's a Hellavu Town), "SHE'S A LATIN FROM MANHATTAN"
    Andrew Previn - "AUTUMN IN NY"
    Miles Davis -"THERE"S A BOAT THAT'S LEAVING SOON FOR NY"
    Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - "NYC SERENADE," "INCIDENT ON 57TH STREET,"DOES THIS BUS STOP AT 82ND STREET?"
    Barry Manilow - "NYC RHYTHM," "BROOKLYN BLUES"
    Louis Prima - "BROOKLYN BOOGIE," "BOOGIE IN THE BRONX"
    Burl Ives - "BROOKLYN BRIDGE"
    Bay City Rollers - "ANOTHER RAINY DAY IN NYC"
    Chicago - "ANOTHER RAINY DAY IN NY," "ITALIAN FROM NY"
    Gordon Lightfoot - "COLD HANDS FROM NY"
    Odyssey - "NATIVE NEW YORKER"
    Jim Croce - "NEW YORK'S NOT MY HOME"
    Kid Rock - "NEW YORK'S NOT MY HOME"
    Madonna - "NEW YORK"
    Ozark Mountain Daredevils - "NEW YORK"
    Roberta Flack - "FIFTH AVENUE," "NEW YORK"
    Night Ranger - "NEW YORK TIME"
    Yoko Ono - "NEW YORK WOMAN"
    Art of Noise - "NEW YORK, LONDON, PARIS, S"
    Neil Sedaka - "ALONE IN NEW YORK IN THE RAIN," "NYC BLUES"
    Godley & Creme - "AN ENGLISHMAN IN NY"
    Wilson Phillips - "ALL THE WAY FROM NY"
    Jennifer Warnes - "BIG NOISE, NY"
    Dramatics - "BLAME IT ON NYC"
    Black 47 - "BLIND MARY/HER DEAR OLD DONEGAL" (Sleep Tight In NYC), "BROOKLYN GIRLS"
    Leadbelly - "BLUES ABOUT NY" (SO DOGGONE SOON)
    Paul Anka - "BROUGHT UP IN NY"
    Mel Torme - "SUNDAY IN NY," "AUTUMN IN NY," "LULLABY OF
    BIRDLAND," "MANHATTAN," "MANHATTAN HOEDOWN," "CONEY ISLAND," "42ND STREET"
    Betty Grable - "CONEY ISLAND"
    Tom Waits - "CONEY ISLAND BABY," "UNION SQUARE," DOWNTOWN TRAIN"
    Bobby Darin - "SUNDAY IN NY"
    Swing Out Sister - "CONEY ISLAND MAN"
    Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "CONEY ISLAND WASHBOARD"
    Pogues - "A FAIRYTALE OF NY"
    James Brown - "DOWN & OUT IN NYC"
    The Cult - "NEW YORK CITY" (w/ Iggy Pop), "CENTRAL PARK"
    Rodgers & Hart - "MANHATTAN"
    The Strokes - "NYC COPS"
    Triumph - "NYC STREETS"
    Snoop Dog - "NY, NY"
    Herbie Hancock - "MANHATTAN" (ISLAND OF LIGHTS & LOVE)
    Richard Marx - "REMEMBER MANHATTAN"
    Glen Campbell - "MANHATTAN KANSAS"
    Fred Astaire - "MANHATTAN DOWNBEAT"
    John Tesh - "MANHATTAN 24,7"
    Harry James - "MANHATTAN SERENADE"
    Cab Calloway "MANHATTAN JAM," "HARLEM CAMP MEETING," "HARLEM HOLIDAY," "HARLEM HOSPITALITY"
    Fats Waller - "HARLEM FUSS"
    Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - "MANHATTAN"
    Eric Johnson - "MANHATTAN"
    Jan & Dean - "MANHATTAN"
    Mink Deville - "HARLEM NOCTURNE"
    Edgar Winter - "HARLEM NOCTURNE"
    The Ventures - "HARLEM NOCTURNE"
    Richie Sambora - "HARLEM RAIN"
    Dizzie Gillespie - "HARLEM SAMBA"
    Booker T & The MG's - "HARLEM SHUFFLE"
    Righteous Brothers - "HARLEM SHUFFLE"
    Tony Bennett - "MANHATTAN," "BROADWAY"
    Rosemary Clooney - "MANHATTAN"
    Bing Crosby - "MANHATTAN," "WHERE IS CENTRAL PARK?"
    Ella Fitzgerald - "TAKE THE A TRAIN," "AUTUMN IN NY," "(LET'S GO) SLUMMING ON PARK AVENUE," "BROADWAY," "HARLEM CONGO," "THERE'S A BOAT DAT'S LEAVING SOON FOR NEW YORK"
    Irving Berlin - "SLUMMING ON PARK AVENUE"
    Theme to Green Acres - "GREEN ACRES"
    Grand Master Flash - "NY, NY"
    Leonard Bernstein - "NY, NY," "REAL CONEY ISLAND"
    Jan Hammer - "MIAMI VICE: NY THEME"
    Ian Hunter - "CENTRAL PARK N' WEST," "BROADWAY"
    10 cc - "WALL STREET SHUFFLE"
    Tangerine Dream - "WALL STREET"
    Scott Joplin - "WALL STREET RAG," "BROADWAY RAG"
    On The Town Soundtrack - "NY, NY"
    They Might Be Giants - "NYC," "I'LL SINK MANHATTAN"
    T. Rex (Marc Bolan, b. Feld) - "NYC"
    Django Rheinhardt - "NYC"
    Buck Owens - "I WOULDN'T LIVE IN NYC (IF THEY GAVE ME THE WHOLE DANG TOWN)
    Beach Boys - "GIRL FROM NYC"
    Tom Jones - "GIRL FROM NYC"
    Martin and Lewis -"EVERY STREET'S A BOULEVARD IN OLD NY"
    Joni Mitchell - "CHELSEA MORNING"
    Boston - "HITCH A RIDE"
    Broadway Cast of Annie - "NYC" 42nd Street Broadway Cast - "42ND STREET"
    Mamas & The Papas - "TWELVE-THIRTY (YOUNG GIRLS ARE COMING TO THE CANYON)
    Was (Not Was) - "WALK THE DINOSAUR"
    Sam Cooke - "TWISTIN' THE NIGHT AWAY"
    Dinah Shore - "MANHATTAN SERENADE"
    Jennifer Warnes -"BIG NOISE, NY"
    Henry Rollins - "NY STORY"
    Marshall Tucker Band" - "LONG ISLAND LADY"
    Elmer Bernstein - "LOST IN YONKERS"
    Don Mclean - "YONKERS GIRL" (Lives In England)
    L.L. Cool J - "QUEENS IS," "STRAIGHT FROM QUEENS,"
    Jay-Z - "BROOKLYN'S FINEST"
    MxPx - NEW YORK TO NOWHERE
    Prodigy - NEW YORK
    Cranberries, The - NEW NEW YORK
    Marcy Playground - THE VAMPIRES OF NEW YORK
    Soul Asylum - NEW YORK BLACKOUT
    Public Enemy - A LETTER TO THE NY POST
    Ol' Dirty Bastard - BROOKLYN ZOO
    Supremes - MANHATTAN
    Joe Cocker - FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN
    De La Soul - WONCE AGAIN LONG ISLAND
    Rod Stewart - KILLING OF GEORGIE, DOWNTOWN TRAIN
    Salt 'N' Peppa - EXPRESS YOURSELF
    Nas - NY STATE OF MIND

By wisper on Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 10:33 pm:

    see? i told you. He works for the NYC tourism board now.

By Chosen One Returns on Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 10:23 pm:

    They'd be proud to have me! eh Nobody plugs away like yours truly!ehe More food for thought: NYC is still the #1 tourist destination for international visitors. Each year, NY welcomes over 36.7 million tourists. In 2004, Times Square (crossroads of the world) ranked #3 as one of The Top 10 Places America goes to have fun. -D, NYC "I hope people watch this movie (Sidewalks Of New York) and still see New York as the greatest city in the world. I certainly do." - EDWARD BURNS, actor/filmmaker/umpteenth celebrity NYer

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