THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
469-Frank Sinatra-Theme From New York,New York.
1980- Number 4 single.
Best Bit-At 2.23.At the end of every New York Yankees baseball match if the team win they play Sinatra’s version,if they have lost then the original version by Liza Minnelli was played.Needless to say Minnelli was not best pleased and after she complained only the Sinatra version is now ever heard win or lose.
The song was written for the 1977 Martin Scorsese film New York,New York by John Kander and Fred Ebb.and sang by Liza Minnelli who they had worked with on many previous occasions. Kander and Ebb had been writing together since 1962,some of their most celebrated work includes the stage musicals ‘Cabaret’ and ‘Chicago.’
In 1980 Frank Sinatra(see also best songs 877 and 567) recorded the song for his Album Trilogy,Past Present Future.
‘I wanna wake up in a city that doesn’t sleep and find I’m king of the hill top of the heap.’
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