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Track List: Complete Manhattan Tower

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  1. Happiness Cocktail
  2. I'm Learnin' My Latin
  3. Once Upon a Dream
  4. Never Leave Me
  5. This Close To the Dawn
  6. Repeat After Me
  7. The Magic Fire
  8. Married I Can Always Get
  9. 'Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor'
  10. New York's My Home!
  11. New York's My Home! - Dick Haymes
  12. Never Leave Me - Dick Haymes
  13. New York's My Home - Dick Haymes
  14. Closing - Dick Haymes
  15. Theme From 'Seven Dreams' - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra
  16. My Own - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra And Chorus
  17. Tired Of Waitin' - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra
  18. Young Ideas - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra
  19. Angel's Lullaby - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra
  20. Through The Night - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra
  21. Follow Me, Baby - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra
  22. Wish I Could Say The Same - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra
  23. How Do I Love You? - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra
  24. You're Not Alone - Gordon Jenkins And His Chorus And Orchestra

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Album Details: Complete Manhattan Tower

Release Date:
01/01/1956
Label:
Drg
UPC:
021471910421

User Reviews: Complete Manhattan Tower

  1. Fond Memories

    , May 30, 2003
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  2. Manhattan Tower

    , January 20, 2005
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From AMG Reviews

Gordon Jenkins' Manhattan Tower is a musical milestone in several respects. It is a unique blend of elements, part pop orchestral, almost classical suite, and part radiostyled narrative, part musical, and part operetta. It began life in 1946 as a fourpart suite on a 78 rpm set of Decca Records, featuring a small cast headed actor Elliott Lewis. This modestly ambitious set took hold in the hearts of New Yorkers and earned Jenkins the Key to the City in 1950, presented to him after a semistaged version of Manhattan Tower appeared on Talk of the Town, an early version of Ed Sullivan's televised weekly variety show. Manhattan Tower, with its implication of romance and its lush and tasteful evocation of a kind of idealized city life in New York, won Jenkins many friends, and its unusual dramatic and musical format may have influenced the rise of Industrial musicals, beginning in the early '50s.

In 1956, executives at Capitol Records, who were building their own pancake stackstyled tower at the corner of Hollywood and Vine, invited Jenkins to expand on his original concept, and the result forms the heart of Sepia Records' The Complete Manhattan Tower. This time the romantic element in the story moved from implicit to explicit, with actress Beverly Mahr (Jenkins' own wife) added as a love interest, Julie, to Elliott Lewis' Steven. With the project moving from the 78 album format into the LP arena, Jenkins was able to more than double its content, though it is more "different from" than "better" in regard to the 1946 version. People that the couple encounters on their dates and travels together briefly step into the story and comment on their own dreams and desires.

The Sepia CD is filled out with some miscellaneous tracks of Jenkins' productions from the '50s, odd tunes from singles recorded for RCA Victor's shortlived X imprint. Among the best of them are two delicious Jenkins piano solos, a superb Tabby Calvin vocal on "Tired of Waitin'," and a fun, wiseacre number called "Follow Me Baby" featuring a vocal by the Pitch Pipes. Not much of this material, and to some degree not even Manhattan Tower, wears very well it is by turns lush, sentimental, street smart and aggressively commercial, and stylistically it belongs to its time. But it's highly intelligent and well crafted '50s camp, and holds up a great deal better than say, Sunny Skylar's +The Hidden Island with actor David Janssen recorded about a decade later, which is by turns hilariously awful and stomach churning by comparison.

The Complete Manhattan Tower may be made out of cheese, but it's highly tasty cheese, and it's not hard at all to imagine listeners who enjoy a little easy listening, and a lighthearted, romantic story, to develop a taste for it. Fans of musical comedy will love the party scene in Manhattan Tower it's one of many small things that make this work so original and unusual. The sound of the Sepia Records issue, taken from original master tapes, is excellent.

- Uncle Dave Lewis, All Music Guide


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Gordon Jenkins enjoyed sizable fame as an arranger, conductor, composer, and bandleader from the 30s through the 60s. He began as a multi-instrumentalist freelancing on radio, then became a prolific arranger, contributing to sessions by Isham Jones, ...Full Gordon Jenkins Biography

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