New York City Songs – Volume 2
Follow up to New York City Songs – Volume 1.
More musical salutes to the geography, diversity, people, and energy of New York City.
Released 17 July 2002, post 9/11, and no cheap “hero” sentimentality included.
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1 Take Me Back To Manhattan –
Rosemary Clooney
2 New York City – Village People
3 New York City – Gil Scott-Heron
4 New York Groove – Kiss
5 Once Upon A Time In New York City –
Huey Lewis
6 Sunday In New York – Mel Torme
7 Pacifics (NY Is Red Hot) – Digable Planets
8 Satin Summer Nights – Marc Anthony ,
Paul Simon & others from the cast of
“Songs From The Capeman”
9 radio jingle
10 Ellis Island – Marc Cohn
11 Coney Island – Barry Sisters
12 Puerto Rican voices – George Carlin
13 Nueva York Pasando Lista – Kinito Mendez
14 Jamaican In New York – Shinehead
15 Girls Of N.Y. – Iggy Pop
16 New York Telephone Conversation –
Lou Reed
17 New York City – Dion
18 New York City – They Might Be Giants
19 Big Apple Waltz – Sweet
20 New York City Blues – Sammy Davis Jr.
with Count Basie Orchestra
21 A Heart In New York – Simon & Garfunkel
22 I Happen To Like New York –Liza Minelli
23 Times Square crowd
aleXander hirka’s birthplace ~ 118 Avenue C, 3rd floor – (above grocery in photo)
