Broadway Celebrates the Big Apple

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Almost every theater writer of note has penned songs about New York, including the Gershwin brothers, Rodgers and Hart, Comden and Green, and Cole Porter. This book celebrates over 100 years of show tunes about New York, from George M. Cohan's “Give My Regards to Broadway” to more recent hits from shows like “I Love You Because” and “My Favorite Year.”

Contents:

• The Streets of New York
• College on Broadway
• Give My Regards to Broadway
• New York Serenade (from "Rosalie")
• Howdy to Broadway (from "Peggy Anne")
• Harlemania (from "Evergreen")
• What a Waste (from "Wonderful Town")
• Manhattan (The Night Is Young) (from "My Favorite Year")
• Welcome to Brooklyn (from "My Favorite Year")
• West End Avenue (from "The Magic Show")
• Dancin' on the Sidewalk (from "Fame - The Musical")
• Growing Up in Brooklyn (from "Nunsense Country Western Jamboree")
• Way Out West (On West End Avenue) (from "Babes in Arms")
• When Love Beckoned (from "Dubarry Was a Lady")
• Ride Through the Night (from "Subways Are for Sleeping")
• There's a Boat Dats Leavin' Soon for New York (from "Porgy and Bess")
• Let's Take a Walk Around the Block
• New York New York (from "On the Town")
• Lullaby of Broadway (from "Gold Diggers of 1935")
• Forty Second Street (from "42nd Street")
• Union Square (from "Let 'Em Eat Cake")
• Harlem Serenade
• Sky City (from "Heads Up")
• Take Me Back to Manhattan
• I Happen to Like New York (from "The New Yorkers")
• Sunday in the Park (from "Pins and Needles")
• Lounging at the Waldorf (from "Ain't Misbehavin'")
• Drop Me Off in Harlem (from "Sophisticated Ladies")
• Longing for Dear Old Broadway
• Wouldn't You Like to Be on Broadway (from "Street Scene")
• Give It Back to the Indians
• Down in the Depths (On the Ninetieth Floor) (from "Red, Hot and Blue")
• Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York
• Broadway Baby (from "Dames at Sea")
• Broadway Rhythm
• Wall Street (from "Dames at Sea")
• Only in New York (from "Thoroughly Modern Millie")
• Another Saturday Night in New York (from "I Love You Because")
• Broadway Reverie (from "Ziegfeld Follies of 1931")
• At the Roxy Music Hall (from "I Married an Angel")
• Do the New York (from "Ziegfeld Follies of 1931")
• Confessions of a New Yorker (from "This Life")