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1930 song by Cole Porter This article is about the Cole Porter song. For the 1964 Caterina Valente album, see I Happen to Like New York (album).

"I Happen to Like New York" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the 1930 musical The New Yorkers when it was introduced by Oscar Ragland.

The song has become a standard of the Great American Songbook, with recordings by many different artists. Judy Garland recorded the song for her 1962 album The Garland Touch, while Caterina Valente recorded the song as the title track of her 1964 album. The song opens the 1987 Liza Minnelli live album At Carnegie Hall. A 1973 recording by Bobby Short from the album Live at the Café Carlyle was used in the 1993 film Manhattan Murder Mystery. British-born singer Dorothy Carless closes her album Mixed Emotions (1956) with the song. Actress Jean Smart sang a modified version of the song with different lyrics on the 50th season premiere of Saturday Night Live in September 2024.

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v t e Cole Porter
Musicals	See America First Hitchy-Koo of 1919 Paris Fifty Million Frenchmen Wake Up and Dream The New Yorkers Gay Divorce Nymph Errant Anything Goes Jubilee Red, Hot and Blue You Never Know Leave It to Me! Du Barry Was a Lady Panama Hattie Let's Face It! Something for the Boys Mexican Hayride Around the World Kiss Me, Kate Out of This World Can-Can Silk Stockings Happy New Year
Songs	Ace in the Hole After You, Who? All of You All Through the Night Allez-Vous-En Always True to You in My Fashion Another Op'nin', Another Show Anything Goes At Long Last Love Be a Clown Begin the Beguine C'est Magnifique Ca, C'est L'amour The Day Is My Enemy Do I Love You? Don't Fence Me In Down in the Depths Dream Dancing Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye From This Moment On Get Out of Town Give Him the Ooh-La-La High Society Calypso I Am in Love I Concentrate on You I Get a Kick Out of You I Happen to Like New York I Love Paris I Love You I Love You, Samantha I've Got My Eyes on You I've Got You Under My Skin In the Still of the Night It's All Right with Me It's De-Lovely Just One of Those Things Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love Let's Misbehave Little One Love for Sale Mind If I Make Love to You? Miss Otis Regrets My Heart Belongs to Daddy Night and Day Now You Has Jazz Ridin' High So in Love So Near and yet So Far Tom, Dick or Harry Too Darn Hot True Love Well, Did You Evah! What Is This Thing Called Love? Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Why Can't You Behave? You Do Something to Me You'd Be So Easy to Love You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To You're Sensational You're the Top

v t e Judy Garland songs
1930s	"Good Morning" "Over the Rainbow" "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)"
1940s	"Among My Souvenirs" "Be a Clown" "The Boy Next Door" "A Couple of Swells" "Easter Parade" "F.D.R. Jones" "For Me and My Gal" "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" "How About You?" "I Wish I Were in Love Again" "It's a Great Day for the Irish" "Johnny One Note" "Journey to a Star" "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" "On the Sunny Side of the Street" "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" "The Wearing of the Green" "The Trolley Song"
1950s	"April Showers" "Carolina in the Morning" "Confessin'" "Day In, Day Out" "Get Happy" "How About Me?" "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby" "I Concentrate on You" "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" "Just You, Just Me" "Last Night When We Were Young" "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" "More Than You Know" "The Man That Got Away" "Swanee" "Stormy Weather" "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" "Theme from San Francisco" "What'll I Do"
1960s	"After You've Gone" "Almost Like Being in Love" "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" "Down with Love" "Do It Again" "Fly Me to the Moon" "A Foggy Day" "Hey, Look Me Over" "I Happen to Like New York" "If Love Were All" "Moon River" "Oh Shenandoah" "Somewhere" "This Can't Be Love" "You Go to My Head"

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