Cole+Porter


 * Cole Albert Porter** (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. His works include the musical comedies, Kiss me Kate, Fifty Million French Men,Dubarry Was A Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day", " I Get A Kick Out of You", "Well, Did You Evah?" and "I've Got You Under My Skin". He was noted for his sophisticated, bawdy lyrics, clever rhymes and complex forms. Porter was one of the greatest contributors to the Great American Songbook. Cole Porter is one of the few Tim Pan Alley composers to have written both the lyrics and the music for his songs.




 * Tributes and Legacy:**

In 1956, the album Ella Fitzgerald sings the Cole Porter Songbook was released by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman. The Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider recorded a song called Flicken i en Cole Porter-sang (That girl from the Cole Porter song) in 1982. In 1990 Dionne Warwick released an album called Dionne Sings Cole Porter. In that same year Red Hot+ Blue was released featuring 20 Cole Porter songs recorded by artists such as U2, Annie Lennox and Shane MacGowin as a benefit CD for AIDS research. In country singer Jo Dee Messina's song "These Are the Days", the protagonist reveals that she sings old Cole Porter songs. John Barrowman, who played "Jack" in the 2004 film De-Lovely released "John Barrowman Swings Cole Porter," a collection of Cole Porter songs in October 2004. In 2004 jazz and electronica producer Billy Paul Williams released an album named The Porter Project. In 2008, pianist/vocalist Patricia Barber released The Cole Porter Mix, consisting of her take on 10 Cole Porter classics as well as three originals inspired by Cole Porter. Judy Garland performed a medley of Porter's songs at the 37th Academy Awards, the first Oscars ceremony held following Porter's death. Porter's life was made into Night and Day, a very sanitized 1946 Michael Curtis film starring Cary Grant and Alex Smith. His life was chronicled more realistically in De-Lovely, a 2004 Irwin Winkler film starring Kevin Kline as Porter and Ashley Judd as Linda. The Cole Porter Festival is held every year the second weekend of June, in his hometown of Peru, Indiana. The festival fosters music and art appreciation by celebrating Porter's life and music. In 1980, Porter's music was used for the score of Happy New Year, based on the Phillip Barry play Holiday. He is referenced in the song "The Call of the Wild" by David Byrne on his 1989 album Rei Momo. He is also mentioned in the song "Tonite It Shows" by Mercury Rev on their 1998 album Deserter's Song. At halftime of the 1991 Orange Bowl between Colorado and Notre Dame, Joel Grey led a large cast of singers and dancers in a tribute to Porter marking the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. The program was called, "You'll Get a Kick Out of Cole". The French Foreign Legion honors Porter with a portrait that hangs in the Legion's official museum. Porter was a Steinway Artist, which means that he chose to perform on Steinway pianos exclusively, and he owned a Steinway piano. Porter's piano is currently in the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

** Notable Songs: ** Shows listed are stage musicals unless otherwise noted. Where the show was later made into a film, the year refers to the stage version. A complete list of Porter's works is in the Library of Congress (Complete List of Cole Porter's Works, and Cole Porter Collection at the Library of Congress). • (1916) See America First • (1919) Hitchy Coo of 1919—"Old-Fashioned Garden" • (1928) Paris—"Lets Do it, Lets Fall in Love" • (1929) Wake up and Dream— " What is This Thing Called Love?" • (1929) Fifty Million Frenchmen—"You Do something to Me" • (1930) The New Yorkers—"Love For Sale", "I Happen to Like New York" • (1932) Gay Divorce—"After you, Who?", "Night and Day" (basis for film renamed The Gay Divorce in 1934) • (1933) Nymph Errant—"Experiment", "The Physician", "It's Bad for Me" • (1934) Anything Goes—"All Through the Night", "Anything Goes", "Blow Gabriel, Blow", "I Get A Kicked Out of You", "You're The Top" • (1934) Adios Argentina (un-produced)—"Don't Fence Me In" • (1935) Jubilee—"Begin the Beguine", "Just One of Those Things" • (1936) Red, Hot and Blue —"Down In The Depths", "It's De-Lovely" • (1936) Born To Dance (film)—"You'd be so Easy to Love", "I've Got You Under My Skin" • (1937) Rosalie(film)—"In The Still Of The Night" • (1937) You Never know( Musical)—"At Long Last Love", "From Alpha to Omega", "Lets Misbehave" • (1938) Leave it To Me!—"From Now On", "My Heart Belongs To Daddy" • (1939) Broadway Melody of 1940—"Between You And Me", " I Concentrate On You", "I've Got My Eyes On You", "I Happen to Be in Love", "Begin The Beguine" • (1939) Dubarry Was A Lady—"Do I Love You", "Well, Did You Evah! ", "Friendship" • (1940) Panama Hattie—"Let's Be Buddies", "Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please" • (1941) You'll Never Get Rich (film)—"Dream Dancing", "So Near and Near So Far" • (1941) Lets Face It—"Everything I Love", "I Hate You, Darling" • (1942) Something For The Boys—"Could It Be You" • (1942) Something To Shout About—"You'd be So Nice To Come Home To" • (1943) Mexican Hayride—"I Love You" • (1944) Seven Lively Arts—"Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" • (1946) Around The World—"Look What I Found" • (1947) The Pirate—"Be A Clown" • (1948) Kiss Me, Kate—"Another Op'nin', Another Show", "Brush Up Your Shakespeare", "I Hate Men", " So In Love", "Too Darn Hott" • (1950) Out Of This World—"From This Moment On", "I Am Loved" • (1950) Stage Fright (film)—"The Laziest Gal In Town" • (1953) Can Can—"I Am In Love", "I Love Paris" • (1954) Silk Stockings—"All Of You", "Paris Loves Lovers" • (1955) High Society—"Mind If I Make Love To You?", "True Love", "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? ", "You're Sensational" • (1956) Les Girls—"Ca C'est L'amour", "You're Just Too, Too" (1958) Aladdin (television)—"Opportunity Knocks But Once", "Come To The Supermarket (In Old Peking)"


 * External Links:**


 * [|Cole Porter]
 * Cole Porter at the discography at [|Discogs]
 * [|Cole Porter] at the [|Internet Broadway Database]
 * [|The Cole Porter Collection at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University]
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