ELLA FITZEGERALD - MANHATTAN

ELLA FITZEGERLD

SONGWRITERS: RICHARD RODGERS & LORENZ HART(1925)

PRODUCER: NORMAN GRANZ

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: ELLA FITZGERALD SINGS THE RODGERS AND HART SONG BOOK

LABEL: VERVE

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1956

"Manhattan" is a popular song and part of the Great American Songbook. It has been performed by The Supremes, Lee Wiley, Oscar Peterson, Blossom Dearie, Tony Martin, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme, among many others. It is often known as "We'll Have Manhattan" based on the opening line. The music was written by Richard Rodgers and the words by Lorenz Hart for the 1925 revue "Garrick Gaieties". It was introduced by (later the voice of the animated Winnie the Pooh) and June Cochran.

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book is a 1956 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance”.

Summer journeys to Niag'ra

And to other places aggra-

vate all our cares.

We'll save our fares;

I've a cozy little flat in

What is known as old Manhattan,

We'll settle down

Right here in town.

CHORUS 1

We'll have Manhattan,

The Bronx and Staten

Island too.

It's lovely going through the Zoo.

It's very fancy

On old Delancey

Street you know.

The subway charms us so,

When balmy breezes blow

To and fro.

And tell me what street

Compares with Mott Street

In July?

Sweet pushcarts gently gliding by.

The great big city's a wondrous toy

Just made for a girl and boy –

We'll turn Manhattan

Into an isle of joy.

CHORUS 2

We'll go to Greenwich,

Where modern men itch

To be free,

And Bowling Green you'll see with me.

We'll bathe at Brighton,

The fish you'll frighten

When you're in,

Your bathing suit so thin

Will make the shellfish grin,

Fin to fin.

I'd like to take a

Sail on Jamaica

Bay with you,

And fair Canarsie's Lakes we'll view.

The city's bustle cannot destroy

The dreams of a girl and boy –

We'll turn Manhattan

Into an isle of joy.

CHORUS 3

We'll go to Yonkers,

Where true love conquers

In the wilds

And starve together, dear, in Childs'.

We'll go to Coney

And eat bologny

On a roll,

In Central Park we'll stroll

Where our first kiss we stole,

Soul to soul.

And South Pacific

Is a terrific

Show they say,

We both may see it close some day.

The city's clamour can never spoil

The drea