My Kind of Town

My Kind of Town is a song by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn ( text ), which was published in 1964.

Van Heusen and Cahn wrote " My Kind of Town" for the film Seven against Chicago ( Original title: Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964 ), directed by Gordon Douglas ), with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby and Peter Falk in the lead roles. The songwriting duo contributed a number of other songs on how I Like to Lead When I Dance and style.

The song received a 1965 Oscar nomination for Best Song. Accompanied by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Sinatra My Kind of Town sang in the film as a tribute to his friend, the Chicago Mafia boss Sam Giancana. Sinatra recorded the song in the following years to his repertoire and published it on several of his LPs, such as A Man and His Music (1965 ) or Sinatra at the Sands ( 1966).

The lyrics praising the city of Chicago and repeated several times the phrase My Kind of Town, as if to say My kind of town, Chicago is. The first lines of the song are:

Frank Sinatra released the song on his Reprise label, coupled with its top title, Strangers in the Night (R- 23052 ) or with That's Life (REP -0720 ). Cover versions of My Kind of Town took in the 1960s, inter alia, Jack Jones, Peter Duchin, Frankie Randall on Marty Paich with the Orchestra, Al Saxon, Julie London, Count Basie, Dukes of Dixieland, Jackie Gleason and Larry Elgart. In later years, Ruby Braff, Allan Vache, Ray Anthony, Ralph Sharon, Bireli Lagrene and Harry Allen interpreted the song ..