Ivan Mann sings a warm-up song his family has performed together since he was 14, rooted in a 1958 Wilbur Harrison tune. The nostalgic lyrics celebrate heading to the big city, a tradition started around 1959 under his mother's direction.
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Dear to me. Since I was 14 years old, this was the song that we started off, that my family, my 2 brothers and my sister, sang to warm up before we all started to do our repertoire for my mother. She wanted us to sing, accompany. So this is from, I guess, 1959. Yes. And take it. There's a story I want you to know about my baby and how Now I understand, there's no other like my baby. Oh no, no, no. Oh, there's no other. Don't you think maybe, oh no, no, no. Walking down the street, my baby be by my side. Oh, down the street, it'll be so hard. For there's no other like my baby. Oh, no, no, no. Come on, sing all day. Wilbur Harrison, 1958. I think you know this one. I did not know it, but you know it. Oh, listen, can you see? Can you see? Here I come. Oh, listen, can you see? Can you see? Here I come. Well, I might take a train. I might take a plane. But if I gotta walk, I'm going to the city. I'm going to the big city. Big city, here I come.