We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

    You can download this song for free. Just go to the link below that says 'Buy Now', enter "$0.00" and its yours. Or go back to the page for the whole album, and download the whole album for free. Enjoy!
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

"Manhattan" is a popular song and part of the Great American Songbook. It has been performed by Diana Ross & 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 Sterling Holloway (later the voice of the animated Winnie the Pooh) and June Cochran. The song appears to describe, in several choruses, the simple delights of Manhattan for a young couple. The joke is that these 'delights' are really some of the worst, or at best cheap, delights that New York has to offer, as anyone who has visited Mott Street will understand. A particular Hart delight is the rhyming 'spoil' with 'boy and goyl'.

credits

from Nate Butler At The Piano Vol. 2 - Standards And Not​-​So Standards, released January 6, 2015

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Nate Butler image

Nate Butler Fresno, California

Nate Butler is an artist, actor, musician, and singer/songwriter from Fresno, California, USA.

contact / help

Contact Nate Butler

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Nate Butler, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now