| Manhattan Tower | |
|---|---|
| Studio album by Gordon Jenkins | |
| Released | 1946 |
| Recorded | 1946 |
| Label | Decca |
Manhattan Tower was a multi-disc LP album by Gordon Jenkins, released by Capitol Records in 1956, as Complete Manhattan Tower under catalog number Capitol T766. Released on Capitol's Turquoise Label in monaural, it was also released on Capitol's High-Fidelity Rainbow Label. Capitol also released the LP in "Duophonic" fake stereo as DT766. It is a development of the first side of Jenkins' 1948 Decca Records LP Manhattan Tower/California Suite(Decca DL 8011), which was characterized as "Two Musical Narratives" and featured Elliot Lewis, Beverly Mahr and Lee Sweetland.
The 1948 Manhattan Tower/California Suite combined mood music, original songs, spoken narration, dialog, and sound effects to tell the story of a young man who moves to New York City to take a job. The tower referred to in the title is the apartment building he lives in. The album chronicles his rise in both business and society. Although the original introduces the theme of love, it is more thoroughly developed in the 1956 recording. (The flip side of the 1948 Decca album consisted mostly of short, impressionistic songs of historic California.)
Gordon Jenkins performed part of Manhattan Tower on the Ed Sullivan Show. At the time of its release, it was considered quite innovative.
Manhattan Tower has been aired each year since 2002 on the Sunday closest to 9/11 over the Music Of The Stars.
Patti Page released a monaural recording of Manhattan Tower on Mercury Records (Mercury MG 20226) in 1956. In 1964, a new recording of Manhattan Tower featuring vocalist Robert Goulet was released in stereo by Columbia Records (Columbia OS2450). It was marketed as the first recording of the Jenkins' work in stereo.
The album was reissued in compact disc format by Sepia Records on March 19, 2007.
| Track number | Title | Songwriter(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Magical City" | ||
| 2 | "Happiness Cocktail" | ||
| 3 | "I'm Learnin' My Latin" | ||
| 4 | "Once Upon A Dream" | ||
| 5 | "Never Leave Me" | ||
| 6 | "This Close To The Dawn" | ||
| 7 | "Repeat After Me" | ||
| 8 | "Repeat After Me" (Reprise) | ||
| 9 | "The Magic Fire" | ||
| 10 | "Married I Can Always Get" | Jenkins | |
| 11 | "The Statue Of Liberty" | ||
| 12 | "The Party" | ||
| 13 | "New York's My Home" | ||
| 14 | "Closing" | ||
| 15 | "Theme From 'Seven Dreams'" | ||
| 16 | "My Own" | ||
| 17 | "Tired Of Waitin'" | ||
| 18 | "Young Ideas" | ||
| 19 | "Angel's Lullaby" | ||
| 20 | "Through The Night" | ||
| 21 | "Follow Me, Baby" | ||
| 22 | "Wish I Could Say The Same" | ||
| 23 | "How Do I Love You?" | ||
| 24 | "You're Not Alone" |
"Married I Can Always Get" was the name of an album recorded by Micki Marlo, who covered the song.