I just started my modeling career in 1977 when this came out. It was my theme song. Such a perfect song for a perfect time in my life. I still love it. I'm so sad what has happened to the New York I knew and loved.
This little girl is what I feel like flying into NYC for home leave after spending a year in the Middle East. The sights of the taxis, the skyline, the free people walking the streets soak into me like a balm. I buy a souvenir and a smiling New Yorker is waiting in a car. I think about growing up a few hours away, and I feel like a kid seeing it all for the first time - yes it's the best country in the world to be from and no place to come home to like The Big Apple!
@@shirleybutler2623 Good for you! You are so fortunate. I have always LOVED this city, and I finally moved here -- at 62 years old! I'm right in midtown Manhattan living like a NYC boy.
It's very rare I think that a cover is better than the original, but this is great , and the video is so atmospheric, it really adds to the song. Great job Black Box !
Nossa eu adorava essa banda na década de 90, pena que a cantora anterior do primeiro disco não cantava era apenas dublagem so vir a saber depois de 10 anos esta história fiquei chateado com o fato, mas esta Charvoni além da linda voz deu um novo ar a banda depois dos escândalo.
@@wildmike951 As I mention in my own comment, this cover is actually very, very good. Not to say that I don't appreciate the original, as I grew up in the heart of disco, and nothing could ever top the original. But this one actually holds its own. I never say this ... but I like em both!
It's not very often that I think a rework of a classic song is as good as the original, but this combined with the very emmotional video is first rate, Well done Black Box !
Franki Valli's version has an open shirt, hairy chest, chains around the neck kinda vibe, reminds me of those guys who you see dressed like the guys in Scarface. The version by Odyssey to me is the realest; it connects me to the experiences of being a New Yorker in a 70s Manhattan disco searching for love amongst the smoke and coke. This new version is more of a fashion show type of vibe; like one of those songs you'd hear at a trendy woman's clothing store and you'd hear it while with your wife as she is shopping for clothes and your bored out your skull. Many dimensions this song is, it transcends time!
Great song. Loved it back in the 1970s when I first heard it. Now that version sounds just a tad Love Boatish. But Black Box did it right. Simple effective video. Perfect blend of pride and strength and vulnerability. Charvon you are great.
Yes, the original was fantastic, but Black Box is doing her own version, updated with a soft hip-hop vibe. I don't think she should have copied the original, which she didn't. I think she sounds cool, putting her own style into the song.
The original song was fantastic, but Black Box is doing her own version, updated with a soft hip-hop vibe. I don't think she should have copied the original, which she didn't. I think she sounds cool, putting her own style into the song. I love the steady beat and the sirens in the background
Actually, Black Box is, or was, a group of two men, who had this wonderful singer , Charvoni, singing on this single, and as much as I love the original, this remake is perfect.
Charvoni is her name and she sung Back Box's second album released in 1995 called Positive Vibration. I simply love her voice she is an AMAZING SINGER!!!!!
