“Summer journeys to Niagara and to other places aggravate all our cares/We’ll save our fares!/I’ve a cosy little flat in what is known as old Manhattan we’ll settle down/Right here in Town!/We’ll have Manhattan….” So begins a charming song from the Great American Songbook. Rodgers and Hart wrote this song in 1925 for a Broadway show. A simple melody evocative of that wonderful place, and full of the simple joys of love between an ordinary guy and an ordinary girl, full of inside jokes on how the tawdriest of attractions makes sense when one does not have two coppers to rub together. The singer? Ella Fitzgerald. There is something wonderful about the...
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