The Big Apple: “Big Apple is fantastic, but cuts you down to size” lyric in Nickelback’s “Kiss It Goodbye” (2011)

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.

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Entry from April 18, 2022

“Big Apple is fantastic, but cuts you down to size” lyric in Nickelback’s “Kiss It Goodbye” (2011)

Nickelback is a Canadian rock band that was formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta. The song “Kiss It Goodbye” on Nickelback’s seventh studio album, Here and Now (2011), contains these lyrics in verse one:

“Hollywood is plastic
But easy on the eyes
Big Apple is fantastic
But cuts you down to size
They’ll treat you like a doormat
Expecting you to fail
Says right across your forehead
Integrity for sale.”

Wikipedia: Here and Now (Nickelback album)
Here and Now is the seventh studio album by Canadian rock band Nickelback, and is their last to be released on Roadrunner Records. The album was released on November 21, 2011. It is the follow-up to their multi-platinum selling Dark Horse in 2008.
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7. "Kiss It Goodbye" C. Kroeger, M. Kroeger, Moi C. Kroeger Nickelback, Howes 3:35

Genius (lyrics)
Kiss It Goodbye
Nickelback
Track 7 on Here And Now
Produced by Nickelback & Brian Howes
Release Date 2011
[Intro]
Kiss it goodbye, goodbye
Kiss it goodbye, goodbye

[Verse 1]
Hollywood is plastic
But easy on the eyes
Big Apple is fantastic
But cuts you down to size
They’ll treat you like a doormat
Expecting you to fail
Says right across your forehead
Integrity for sale

YouTube
Kiss It Goodbye
Jul 22, 2017
Nickelback
Provided to YouTube by Roadrunner Records
Kiss It Goodbye · Nickelback

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