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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0743625544121
Label: Asv Living Era
Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Asv Living Era
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Studio: Asv Living Era
Disc 1:- Opening: I Feel Like I'm Not Out Of Bed Yet... New - Ellington, Duke
- The Sidewalks of New York (East Side, West Side) - Hagen, Earle
- The Broadway Melody - Fields
- Give My Regards to Broadway (from Little Johnny Jones) - Hart, Lorenz
- Stairway to the Stars, song (from "Park Avenue Fantasy") - Rodgers, Richard
- Forty Second Street - Adamson, Harold
- Slumming on Park Avenue, song (from "On the Avenue") - Matthews
- Harlem Air-Shaft - Duke, Vernon
- Harlem Nocturne - Phillips
- The Big Back Yard - Dubin, Al
- Manhattan, song (used in film "Two Tickets to Broadway") - Jenkins
- Slaughter on 10th Avenue, jazz ballet for orchestra (from "On Your Toes - Jenkins
- Manhattan Serenade - Jenkins
- Give Me The Moon Over Brooklyn - Jenkins
- Autumn in New York (from the revue, "Thumbs Up") - Berlin, Irving
- Skyscraper Fantasy
- Lullaby of Broadway
- Part 1: Magi [Manhattan Tower]
- Part 2: The [Manhattan Tower]
- Part 3: New [Manhattan Tower]
- Part 4: Love
- Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, song (from "Miss Liberty")
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
The delightful narration of Gordon Jenkins' "Manhattan Tower" lasts but 16 minutes, but is worth the price of the disc; the balance of the disc is made up of fillers, each of which has something to do with New York. These include well-known pieces such as Lullaby of Broadway, Give My Regards to Broadway, and Forty Second Street. Artists include Bernstein, Cohan, Paul Whiteman, Jo Stafford, Guy Lombardo, and Frank Sinatra. The disc runs 75 minutes, and is Mono.
Rating:  -
Many of the songs on this recording are not available in sheet music, and although the sound quality isn't "leading edge" it makes me feel as though I am listening to actual performers back in the 30's & 40's, with young and gifted singers like Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, and Mel Torme, as well as others who are nameless or unknown to me on this album, and a delight to listen to. Manhattan Tower is why I bought this CD, and I got so much more from it than I bargained for. The illusion I have when ... Read More
Rating:  -
I bought this CD for the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue soundtrack ballet by Richard Rodgers and Lennie Hayton. But none of the tracks on this CD can be appreciated. It is a mono recording, and that immediately leaves you with a very incomplete sound. No amount of treble and bass adjustment can eliminate the awful tinny sound throughout the disc.
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