3:13
single, 1956
Written by Gordon Jenkins, 1946
Ray Charles did a celebrated version of this song, but as of this post, it's not available on Spotify. In the song, the narrator puts down all the other places, imploring anyone who will listen that New York is the best place around. St. Louis, he observes as an example, "has lots of shoes" (I learned today that St. Louis was once one of the greatest shoe manufacturers in the world), "But it hasn't got the opera in The Met / It hasn't got a famous string quartet." Davis delivers most of the song in a hasty half-spoken patter as one might hear on a musical stage, with a chorus backing him for emphasis.
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