Uptownthe crystalswritten by cynthia weil and barry mannpeaked at # 13 in 1962produced by phil spector. one of spector's first major hits to use castanets as a percussion effect. according to legend, this song was originally given to tony orlando, who turned it down only to watch it become a top 15 hit by the crystals.he gets up each morning and he goes downtownwhere everyone's his boss and he's lost in an angry landhe's a little manbut then he comes uptown each ev'nin' to my tenementuptown where folks don't have to pay much rentand when he's there with me he can see that he's everythingthen he's tall, he don't crawl, he's a kingdowntown he's just one of a million guyshe don't get no breaks and he takes all they got to give'cause he's got to livebut then he comes uptown where he can hold his head up highuptown he knows that i am standing byand when i take his hand there's no man who could put him downthe world is sweet, it's at his feet when he's uptownwhoa-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohyeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeahwhoa-oh, whoa-oh, oh-yeahlet me tell ya nowuptown where he can hold his head up highuptown he knows that i am standing byand when i take his hand there's no man who could put him downthe world is sweet, it's at his feet, when he's uptownwhoa-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohyeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeahlet me tell ya now, uptownfadewhoa-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh