Songs, etc., for New York

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[Eleutheria5]

Contribute songs, videos, poems, anecdotes, pictures, anything at all that commemorates New York City, the life there both good and bad, high and low brow, the previous attacks (Such as Osama Step Right Up and Kiss My Rosy Irish Arse [composed by one of the firemen of 9/11]). We did it for the country music festival in Vegas. Let's do it for New York, New York. I started it out with Sinatra for a source URL. Please add your own contributions.

[Alberta's Child]

The song itself is not particularly about New York City, but it will always have a NYC sound to me ... and the video was filmed at several landmarks in the East Village.

Great bit of trivia: The brownstone where the first half of the video is filmed is the same building that's on the cover of the Led Zeppelin album Physical Graffiti.

Waiting On A Friend -- Rolling Stones

[Jamestown1630]

I agree with you. Not a big fan either, but that’s the only Springsteen album I ever bought.

[BenLurkin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok__l1Acuwg

[ETL]

Speaking of "Frank"...

_______

Start spreading the news
I'm leaving today
I want to be a part of it
New York, New York

These vagabond shoes
Are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it
New York, New York

I wanna wake up in a city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

These little town blues
Are melting away
I'll make a brand new start of it
In old New York

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

New York, New York

I want to wake up in a city
That never sleeps
And find I'm a number one
Top of the list
King of the hill
A number one

These little town blues
All melting away
I'm gonna make a brand new start of it
In old New York

And if I can make it there
I'm gonna make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York, New York

[Robert DeLong]

Instant Karma

[Alberta's Child]

Here's a Rolling Stones tune that IS about New York City -- and it's a classic:

Shattered -- Rolling Stones

Supposedly Mick Jagger wrote it in the back of a taxicab in New York City during a sanitation worker's strike in the 1970s when there were piles of garbage all over the place in the city. The song reflects the zany scene in NYC at the time.

[ETL]

Shattered, shattered
Love and hope and sex and dreams
Are still surviving on the street
Look at me, I'm in tatters!
I'm a shattered
Shattered
Friends are so alarming
And my lover's never charming
Life's just a cocktail party on the street
Big Apple
People dressed in plastic bags
Directing traffic
Some kind of fashion
Shattered
Laughter, joy, and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex
Look at me, I'm in tatters
I'm a shattered
Shattered
All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter 'bout
Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta -- I can't give it away on 7th Avenue
This town's been wearing tatters (shattered, shattered)
Work and work for love and sex
Ain't you hungry for success, success, success, success
Does it matter? (Shattered) Does it matter?
I'm shattered.
Shattered
Ahhh, look at me, I'm a shattered
I'm a shattered
Look at me- I'm a shattered, yeah
Pride and joy and greed and sex
That's what makes our town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street
And look at me, I'm in tatters, yeah
I've been battered, what does it matter
Does it matter, uh-huh
Does it matter, uh-huh, I'm a shattered
Don't you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!
You got rats on the west side
Bed bugs uptown
What a mess this town's in tatters I've been shattered
My brain's been battered, splattered all over Manhattan
Uh-huh, this town's full of money grabbers
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots, huh
Shadoobie, my brain's been battered
My friends they come around they
Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter
Pile it up, pile it high on the platter

[Mears]

Incredibly intelligent lyrics.

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[CtBigPat]

Billy Joel - Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)

[Alberta's Child]

I'm impressed -- you even attempted to spell "shadoobie." LMAO.

Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.

This was actually my FR tagline for a while when I was really down in NYC. LOL.

[ETL]

Lol! I’m sure there are those who consider it “profound”.

In any case, great song.

[Mears]

Anyone who considers that profound is either very stoned or very drunk. :-)

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[ETL]

I’m impressed — you even attempted to spell “shadoobie.” LMAO.

Lol! I didn't actually type that out.

I copied & pasted it from this lyrics website.

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rollingstones/shattered.html

[Mpatl]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RnkJa6HdgJw My City of Ruins

[Alberta's Child]

LOL — I see. :-)

[John Milner]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEgBRopw7j0

B J Thomas - The Eyes of a New York Woman

[IronJack]

I’d say “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” but I’d be lying.

[uncbob]

Buck Owens-- NYC
"I wouldn't live in NYC if they gave me the whole danged town "

Merle Haggard--NYC Blues

[ETL]

I’d say “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” but I’d be lying.

Abbott (to Costello): Who did the song “Won’t Get Fooled Again”.