"Chinatown, My Chinatown" is a popular song written by William Jerome

William Jerome

William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...

 (w.) and Jean Schwartz

Jean Schwartz

Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...

 (m.) in 1910.

Jerome and Schwartz incorporated Chinese musical forms into Western music for the melody. The song has been recorded by numerous artists including Al Jolson

Al Jolson

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 and Chris Connor

Chris Connor

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, and is considered to be a jazz standard

Jazz standard

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The song was featured in Woody Allen

Woody Allen

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's 1987 film "Radio Days

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" and Illusion Softworks

Illusion Softworks

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' 2002 video game, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven

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