Cole Porter
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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Love for sale --Love for Sale (1930) by Cole Porter For radio airplay the perceived drug reference "I get no kick from cocaine," is changed to "I get perfume from Spain." in Cole Porter's classic "I Get a Kick Out of You." --see music censorship, American censorship. |
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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, 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!, Two Little Babes In The Wood 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.
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.
- (1916) See America First
- (1919) Hitchy-Koo of 1919—"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", "Where Have You Been?"
- (1932) Gay Divorce—"After You, Who?", "Night and Day" (adapted as The Gay Divorcee, 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 film)—"Don't Fence Me In"
- (1935) Jubilee—"Begin the Beguine", "Just One of Those Things"
- (1936) Red, Hot and Blue—"Down in the Depths (on the Ninetieth Floor)", "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—"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"
- (1941) You'll Never Get Rich (film)—"Dream Dancing", "So Near and Yet So Far"
- (1941) Let's Face It!—"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 (film)—"Be a Clown"
- (1948) Kiss Me, Kate—"Another Op'nin', Another Show", "Brush Up Your Shakespeare", "I Hate Men", "So in Love", "Tom, Dick or Harry", "Too Darn Hot"
- (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", "C'est Magnifique"
- (1954) Silk Stockings—"All of You", "Paris Loves Lovers"
- (1955) High Society (film)—"Mind if I Make Love to You?", "True Love", "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", "You're Sensational"
- (1956) Les Girls—"Ça, C'est L'amour", "You're Just Too, Too"
- (1958) Aladdin (television)—"Come to the Supermarket (In Old Peking)"
A far more comprehensive list of Cole Porter songs, along with their date of composition and original show, is available online at the "Cole Porter Songlist Page".
