New York, New York — Frank Sinatra

No Words, No Song
5 min readAug 27, 2022
Photo by Mike C. Valdivia on Unsplash

In the history of popular music, I’m not sure there are many songs with more swagger than Frank Sinatra’s version of “New York, New York”.

I say “Frank Sinatra’s version” because, despite it being a song almost inextricably linked with Ol’ Blue Eyes in most people’s minds, his recording was not the original. That honour went to Liza Minnelli.

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No Words, No Song

Without words, it’s just a nice tune. Add words — now you’ve got a song. And songs can change your world. I write about some that changed mine.