After Irving Berlin in October we celebrate another of the greatest songwriters of the Great American Songbook with Cole Porter in November. Look out for special playlists of his songs throughout the month.Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate (1948) (based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew), Fifty Million Frenchmen, and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick out of You", and "I've Got You Under My Skin". He was noted for his sophisticated (sometimes ribald) lyrics, clever rhymes, and complex forms. He was one of the greatest contributors to the Great American Songbook. Cole Porter is one of the few Tin Pan Alley composers to have written both lyrics and music for his songs.
Major songs and shows.
Shows listed are stage musicals unless otherwise noted. (Where the show was later made into a film, the year refers to the stage version.)
(1916) See America First
(1919) Hitchy Koo Of 1919 — "An Old Fashioned Garden"
(1928) Paris — "Let's Do It, Let's 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 Divorcee 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 Kick 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 — "It's De-Lovely"
(1936) Born to Dance (film) — "Down in the Depths (on the Ninetieth Floor)", "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 — "At Long Last Love", "From Alpha to Omega", "Let's 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 Yet So Far"
(1941) Let's 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 in Eighty Days — "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 Hot"
(1950) Out Of This World — "From This Moment On", "I Am Loved"
(1953) Can-Can — "I Am in Love", "I Love Paris", "C'est Magnifique"
(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"
Cole Porter. (2008, October 28). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12:09, October 30, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cole_Porter&oldid=248148117
