Sinatra would record it again for the 1958 concept album Come Fly With Me (my favorite version of his, which is among the 10 great recordings listed below). Despite being recorded countless times since, Sinatra’s is the only version to make a dent on the charts, peaking at No.
The nostalgic tune wouldn’t get on the path to becoming a standard until over a decade later when Frank Sinatra recorded it for Columbia in 1947. Earlier in December ‘34, the very first recording of “Autumn of New York” was released. The show, which debuted in December 1934, received tepid reviews, and only ran for five months (it didn’t even make it to autumn). However, the song found a home as the closing number in the revue Thumbs Up. Unlike a lot of his compositions, “Autumn in New York” wasn’t written specifically for a play or film. A few years prior, Duke composed (with lyrics by Yip Harburg) another season/city standard, “April in Paris.” Other Great American Songbook entries from Duke include the cheery “Taking a Chance on Love” (also with lyrics by Harburg) and the somber “I Can’t Get Started” (with lyrics by Ira Gershwin). He’s quoted as saying it did not contain “a particle” of popular appeal and called his poem set to music “a genuine emotional outburst.” The concept for the song didn’t totally come out of nowhere though. Duke did not expect this classic tune to be a hit. “Autumn in New York” was written by Russian immigrant Vernon Duke (birth name: Vladimir Dukelsky) in the summer of 1934 while he was in Connecticut and homesick for New York City. It is a season long encounter that will shatter Will's preconceptions about women, sex and responsibility.Rhyming “inviting” and “first-nighting” is pretty cool, I must say. Charlotte is half Will's age and twice his match, a 21-year-old free spirit yearning to get out and taste the excitement of adult life.
Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Keane, a New York restaurateur, infamous verging-on-50 playboy, master of the no-commitment seduction until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding.
0 kommentar(er)
