Considering that New York has been called "the city that never sleeps", a song whose title contains "Manhattan" and "lullaby" would be a contradiction in terms.
However, Mantovani was able to create his own "Manhattan Lullaby" in 1963 and singer-songwriter Kyozo Nishioka（西岡恭蔵）and his wife KURO created his own "Manhattan Lullaby" as the final track for his 1981 album "New York to Jamaica". A soft and playful bluesy jazz number that has the personality of a sleepy kitten, it sounds like the ideal way to finish off a concert in some intimate hole-in-a-wall somewhere in the Big Apple or Tokyo without having the janitor angrily flick the light switch on and off to get the stragglers to go home. Have a safe trip back!
Something about the way Kyozo Nishioka sings reminds me of Neil Diamond.
ReplyDeleteCome to think of it, I could imagine Diamond doing a cover of this.
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