Theme from New York, New York

"Theme from New York, New York"
Single by Liza Minnelli
from the album New York, New York
Released	June 21, 1977
Genre	Traditional pop
Length	3:16
Label	Capitol
Writer(s)	Fred Ebb, John Kander

"Theme from New York, New York"
Single by Frank Sinatra
from the album Trilogy: Past Present Future
Released	1979
Format	7" single
Recorded	1978
Genre	Jazz
Length	3:26
Label	Reprise
Writer(s)	Fred Ebb, John Kander
Producer(s)	Sonny Burke
Frank Sinatra singles chronology
"Night and Day" (1977) "Theme from New York, New York" (1980) "You and Me (We Wanted It All)" (1980)

"Theme from New York, New York" (or "New York, New York") is the theme song from the Martin Scorsese film New York, New York (1977), composed by John Kander, with lyrics by Fred Ebb. It was written for and performed in the film by Liza Minnelli. It remains one of the best-known songs about New York City. In 2004 it finished #31 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.

In 1979, "Theme from New York, New York" was re-recorded by Frank Sinatra for his album Trilogy: Past Present Future (1980), and has since become closely associated with him. He occasionally performed it live with Minnelli as a duet. Sinatra recorded it a second time for his 1993 album Duets, with Tony Bennett.

The first line of the song is:

Start spreadin' the news, I'm leaving today
I want to be a part of it: New York, New York.

The song concludes with the line:

If I can make it there, I'm gonna make it anywhere,
It's up to you, New York, New York.

Minnelli's original recording of the song (also used in the Tony Bennett version in Duets) uses the following closing line:

If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere,
Come on come through, New York, New York.

It should not be confused with the song "New York, New York", from Leonard Bernstein/Adolph Green/Betty Comden's musical On the Town (1944), which features the lyric "New York, New York, it’s a helluva town / The Bronx is up and the Battery's down..."

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