Description
DESCRIPTION
2008 release. It used to be said that there are eight million stories in the Naked City. Here are twenty four such stories, depicting the happiness and hardships, the highs and lows of 1960s city life. All human life is here - from the anticipation of arrival in a Metropolis; the hardships of employment and unemployment; the finding and losing of love; and the escapes from reality that can be found 'Up on the Roof'. Although many of these songs are set in and around New York, their message is pan-American and could just as easily apply to Chicago, Detroit or any other city where not all the inhabitants found that summertime meant that the living (or the loving) was easy. A host of soul music's most revered artists are assembled to tell this story, from Arthur Alexander to Aretha Franklin. Almost all of those who tell it sing from personal experience of having lived it. 24 tracks. Ace.
TracksCredits
1 Big New York
2 On Broadway
3 I Love New York
4 In My Apartment
5 Concrete Jungle
6 Second Window, Second Floor
7 No Pity (In the Naked City)
8 I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore
9 A Quiet Place
10 Three Rooms
11 In My Tenement
12 Uptown
13 I Found a Daisy (In the City)
14 Nights in New York City
15 Song of the Street
16 Strange Neighbourhood
17 Up in the Streets of Harlem
18 Those City Lights
19 That Old Neighbourhood
20 Street Talk
21 No Butterflies
22 City of Fools
23 Up on the Roof (Interpolation: Som Kinda Wonderful)
24 Spanish Harlem
