Sung, played, shouted from windows and balconies, New York, New York is more than ever the anthem of the inhabitants of the Big Apple during this period of confinement. A song immortalized by Frank Sinatra, and of which Philippe Corbé, the correspondent of RTL in the United States, explains the story to us in this new episode.
Car New York, New York is originally a title from the eponymous film by Martin Scorsese, released in 1977, with Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro, and which tells the story of a night club in the 1940s. The film will be a failure, but the song will have a much happier destiny.
The singer of My Way, at the time considered out of date, will even find a new lease of life there. Since then the song has given one of his nicknames in New York, taken from one of his most famous lines. “The City that never sleeps”, “the city that never sleeps”. A hymn to their city that New Yorkers celebrate in many ways.
@NYPD19Pct love the Sinatra in front of Lenox Hill Hospital. Super classy of all the officers cheering too. My wife is a nurse there and loves the 7:00pm chant. pic.twitter.com/FxdE3r6IxD
— Andrew C. (@AndrewC031) April 14, 2020
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A truck is driving around NYC blasting Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” to thank all the healthcare and essential workers pic.twitter.com/ML4E1BK5TV
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) April 24, 2020
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