Title:
The
Complete
Manhattan
Tower
Artist:
Gordon
Jenkins
with
Beverly
Mahr
&
Elliott
Lewis
Catalogue
No:
SEPIA
1087
Barcode:
5055122110873
Release
Date:
7
March
2007
For
about
25
years
of
the
50
since
its
original
LP
release,
this
version
of
Manhattan
Tower
has
been
unavailable
except
on
records
from
second-hand
shops.
It
gives
us
great
pleasure
presenting
in
its
entirety
the
complete
version
of
Gordon
Jenkins's
masterpiece,
the
1956
Manhattan
Tower
on
CD.
The
original
suite
of
this
musical
narrative
which
served
as
a
love
story
between
the
narrator
Steven
and
Julie,
and
the
parallel
romance
between
Steven
and
Manhattan
(comprised
of
"The
Magical
City,"
"The
Party,"
"New
York's
My
Home,"
and
"Love
In
A
Tower")
was
first
released
in
1946
on
two
78
rpm
platters
where
it
slowly
gained
momentum
and
became
a
best
seller.
By
1956,
with
“microgroove”
and
“high
fidelity”
the
buzzwords
of
the
day,
Manhattan
Tower
seemed
a
natural
choice
for
an
overhaul
and
re-recording
on
an
LP.
This
new
recording
was
expanded
with
the
addition
of
side
trips
to
a
bar,
a
dance
floor,
Central
Park
and
Greenwich
Village.
The
glories
of
the
expanded
suite
are
apparent
at
first
hearing,
and
could
easily
be
appreciated
by
anyone
who
has
journeyed
to
New
York,
and
anyone
who's
ever
been
in
love
-
or
wants
to
be.
The
suite
is
complemented
on
this
new
release
by
some
rarer
Gordon
Jenkins
recordings
-
Theme
from
Seven
Dreams
makes
its
digital
debut
here.
It
is
accompanied
by
two
more
lovely
instrumentals,
Angel's
Lullaby
and
Through
The
Night.
Although
the
former
"features"
Gordon
himself
on
the
piano,
the
latter
is
more
representative
of
his
trademark,
the
"one-finger
swing"
at
the
piano.
Seven
other
tracks
complete
the
disc
-
Young
Ideas,
How
Do
I
Love
You,
You're
Not
Alone,
Wish
I
Could
Say
The
Same
are
pure
1950s
pop
with
the
Jenkins
touch;
others
My
Own,
Tired
of
Waitin',
Follow
Me,
Baby
seem
to
look
ahead
to
his
1958
Tropicana
Holiday
in
their
energy
and
creativity.
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