![]() ![]() ![]() “We were rehearsing up at NBC, and he brought the sheet music up to the piano and said, ‘Here, play this for me,’” the pianist recalled. Sinatra began doing the new “New York New York” in concert in October 1978, around the time Falcone joined him, and initially used it as his opening number. Written for Liza Minnelli (who had a minor hit with it) in Martin Scorsese’s unfortunate 1977 musical of the same name, “New York New York” marked the second show-type tune of that title to be associated with Sinatra (the first was from his 1949 film On The Town) and is more correctly titled “Theme from New York New York.” In some early concert performances, Sinatra opened with the Bernstein-Comden-Green song to lead into the soon-to-be familiar John Kander-Fred Ebb introductory vamp. He’s getting to it.’ It took him a while, but he finally got to it, and now it’s probably the most popular thing he’s ever done.” to find out what was happening, and she said, ’It’s on the turntable. “I sent him the song, and he said he would listen to it. The following part is from the book Sinatra! The Song Is You, Will Friedwald.īy far the most commercially successful number of The Present –on all of Trilogy, in fact- was not any kind of youth-directed pop-art at all but what amounts to a show tune from a flop film, “New York New York.” Frank Military, who had left Sinatra’s employ at the end of the Capitol era, rightfully busts his buttons with pride at having been the first to pull Sinatra’s coattails to this piece of material. And then he sang New York New York… Unforgettable” He puffed on a cigarette, sipped from a glass of wine. Sinatra the artist would bring the audience along the heights again, but on his terms. Sinatra the wise showman allowed the applause and the cheers to reach a high decibel peak, and descend into a deliciously tense, expectant silence. San Diego Union-Leader columnist Don Freeman recalled how on hearing the first tentative sounds of the song the audience “erupted into a thunderclap of loving recognition. In June 1980, in a fever of anticipation, New Yorkers thronged to hear Frank at Carnegie Hall. It came over as a new, defiant personal statement as much as a paean to a city. It was in 1979, in Los Angeles, that he made the recording that endures today. Performed live by Frank, it became a show-stopper. The previous year, when it had been the theme song for the movie, it had not really taken off. It then replaced My Way, and became the new national anthem.įrank first sang New York New York in public in October 1978, during a charity event at Waldorf-Astoria. ![]() ![]() In all of his concerts, we can hear the audience literally going crazy when New York New York starts. Start spreading the news… New York New York was a big success for Frank Sinatra. In some of his concerts, Frank Sinatra adds the part of the song New York New York (from the film On The Town, 1944) to the beginning of this song. Frank Sinatra sang the song many times in his concerts, and also as a duet with Liza Minnelli in a concert, and with Tony Bennett in his Duets album. In 1979, Frank Sinatra recorded the song for his album Trilogy: Past Present Future. New York New York, Theme from New York New York actually, was written by Fred Ebb and composed by John Kander for the Martin Scorsese film New York, New York in 1977. ![]()
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