Manhattan Tower (Patti Page album)

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Manhattan Tower
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ReleasedOctober 1956
RecordedSeptember 1956
StudioMercury Sound Studio, New York City
Genre Traditional pop
Label Mercury
Patti Page chronology
Romance on the Range
(1955)
Manhattan Tower
(1956)
In the Land of Hi-Fi
(1956)
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Manhattan Tower was a Patti Page LP album, issued by Mercury Records. The album was originally issued in October 1956 as a vinyl LP. [2] It is her version of Gordon Jenkins' popular 1948/1956 Manhattan Tower suite.

Billboard liked the album commenting, inter alia, "Gordon Jenkins' new, expanded "Manhattan Tower" score soon to be showcased, via a TV spectacular is handed a class A vocal treatment by Patti Page, who sings 11 tunes...from the score with her usual good taste, technical know-how and warm sincerity..." [3]

The album was reissued, combined with the 1956 Patti Page album You Go to My Head, in compact disc format, by Sepia Records on September 4, 2007.

Track listing

Track numberTitleSongwriter(s)
1"New York's My Home" Gordon Jenkins
2"Once Upon A Dream"
3"Learnin' My Latin"
4"Happiness Cocktail"
5"March Marches On"
6"Never Leave Me"
7"Married I Can Always Get"
8"Repeat After Me"
9"Indian Giver"
10"This Close To The Dawn"
11"The Party" (Noah)

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References

  1. Manhattan Tower at AllMusic
  2. Page, Patti (October 1956). "Manhattan Tower (Disc Information)". Mercury Records . MG-20226.
  3. "Billboard". October 20, 1956: 24.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)