City Beneath The Sea (song)
"City Beneath the Sea" is a song by Harry Connick Jr, which first appears on the 1996 album Star Turtle, and is included in the 2005 multi-artist benefit album Hurricane Relief: Come Together Now. The song depicts unique scenes from New Orleans, and features a brief but spectacular piano solo.
Connick jr wrote the song about New Orleans when he was at his mother-in-law's (Glenna Goodacre) house in Santa Fe, N.M.. He says, in a 1996 interview, the song was written on a deadline to complete the album. "I wish I had spent more time on it, to make it musically into a more substantial piece of work". Addressing it as a "very, very simple piece of music".
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