"Which song written by Cole Porter in 1933 referred to ""Fred Astaire, Mussolini, Mrs Sweeny and Camembert ""?"
"Got You Under My Skin"", ""My Heart Belongs to Daddy"" and ""You're the Top"". He also composed scores for films from the 1930s to the 1950s, including ""Born to Dance"" (1936), which featured the song ""You'd Be So Easy to Love""; ""Rosalie"" (1937), which featured ""In the Still of the Night""; ""High Society"" (1956), which included ""True Love""; and ""Les Girls"" (1957). Porter was born in Peru, Indiana, the only surviving child of a wealthy family. His father, Samuel Fenwick Porter, was a druggist by trade. His mother, Kate, was the indulged daughter of James Omar ""J. O."" Cole, ""the"
"Night and Day (song) ""Night and Day"" is a popular song by Cole Porter that was written for the 1932 musical ""Gay Divorce"". It is perhaps Porter's most popular contribution to the Great American Songbook and has been recorded by dozens of musicians. Fred Astaire introduced ""Night and Day"" on stage. His recording of the song with the Leo Reisman orchestra was a No. 1 hit, topping the charts of the day for ten weeks. He performed it again in the 1934 film version of the show, renamed ""The Gay Divorcee"", and it became one of his signature songs. There"
"""De-Lovely"". Other singers who have paid tribute to Porter include the Swedish pop music group Gyllene Tider, which recorded a song called ""Flickan i en Cole Porter-sång"" (""That Girl from the Cole Porter Song"") in 1982. He is referenced in the merengue 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 Songs"". In 1965, Judy Garland performed a medley of Porter's songs at the 37th Academy Awards shortly after Porter's death. In 1980, Porter's music was"
"album ""Sentimental Journey"". Everything but the Girl chose this song for their first single in 1983. It reached No. 92 in August 1982. Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall included the song on her album ""Turn Up the Quiet"" (2017). Night and Day (song) ""Night and Day"" is a popular song by Cole Porter that was written for the 1932 musical ""Gay Divorce"". It is perhaps Porter's most popular contribution to the Great American Songbook and has been recorded by dozens of musicians. Fred Astaire introduced ""Night and Day"" on stage. His recording of the song with the Leo"
"In 1934, Astaire and Rogers made the musical movie ""The Gay Divorcee"" which co-starred Edward Everett Horton; it was their first joint starring role in a movie and grossed even more with worldwide rentals of $1.8 million; the movie also featured the classic Cole Porter song ""Night and Day"". The song ""The Continental"" from the movie was a hit and was also the first song to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song in the 1934 Academy Awards. Astaire and Rogers made two movies in 1935, ""Roberta"", which featured the song ""I Won't Dance"" and ""Top Hat"", which also"
"heaping helping of puns and double (and triple) entendres."" The New Yorkers The New Yorkers is a musical written by Cole Porter (lyrics and music) and Herbert Fields (book). Star Jimmy Durante also wrote the words and music for the songs in which his character was featured. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1930. It is based on a story by cartoonist for ""The New Yorker"", Peter Arno, and E. Ray Goetz. The musical satirizes New York types, from high society matrons to con men, bootleggers, thieves and prostitutes during Prohibition. The musical includes Porter's famous, sad song about a"
"was used as the title theme music in the 1933 Hollywood movie, ""Grand Slam"" starring Loretta Young and Paul Lukas. In 1960 it was also included in the film version of Cole Porter's ""Can-Can"". The first of Porter's ""list songs"", it features a string of suggestive and droll comparisons and examples, preposterous pairings and double entendres, dropping famous names and events, drawing from highbrow and popular culture. Porter was a strong admirer of the Savoy Operas of Gilbert & Sullivan, many of whose stage works featured similar comic list songs. The first refrain covers human ethnic groups, the second refrain"
"Lucy Monroe, Morton Downey, Charles Boyer, Dorothy Parker, Tallulah Bankhead, Irving Berlin, Vincent Youmans, Dorothy Fields. 123 Club was the first night club to feature the songs from Cole Porter's ""Something for the Boys"", ""Oklahoma"" and ""One Touch of Venus"". Stearns was also a stage actor, his first stage appearance was in ""New Faces"" and he was in several musical shows, including ""Show Boat"". During World War II he performed for the U.S. military in ""The Barretts of Wimpole Street"". They gave 140 performances for American soldiers in Italy and France, and then, in 1945, they moved to Boston and"
"the Pine Valley Cosmonauts in 2002; Clare Teal in 2003; Labelle ; Patricia Barber in 2008; and Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco in 2018 ; Rosemary Clooney, Lonnie Donegan, Billie Holiday, Richard Manuel, Carmen McRae, Bette Midler, The Mills Brothers, Joan Morris, Rufus Wainwright, Josh White, Buddy Moss (under the title of ""Madam"") and many others. Miss Otis Regrets ""Miss Otis Regrets"" is a song composed by Cole Porter in 1934, and first performed by Douglas Byng in ""Hi Diddle Diddle"", a revue that opened on October 3, 1934, at London's Savoy Theatre. Cole Porter spent many holidays in Paris"
"The New Yorkers The New Yorkers is a musical written by Cole Porter (lyrics and music) and Herbert Fields (book). Star Jimmy Durante also wrote the words and music for the songs in which his character was featured. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1930. It is based on a story by cartoonist for ""The New Yorker"", Peter Arno, and E. Ray Goetz. The musical satirizes New York types, from high society matrons to con men, bootleggers, thieves and prostitutes during Prohibition. The musical includes Porter's famous, sad song about a prostitute, ""Love for Sale"", which was banned from the"
"for Baryshnikov he was ""."" Extremely modest about his singing abilities (he frequently claimed that he could not sing, but the critics rated him as among the finest), Astaire introduced some of the most celebrated songs from the Great American Songbook, in particular, Cole Porter's: ""Night and Day"" in ""Gay Divorce"" (1932) and ""So Near and yet So Far"" in ""You'll Never Get Rich"" (1941), Irving Berlin's ""Isn't This a Lovely Day?"", ""Cheek to Cheek"" and ""Top Hat, White Tie and Tails"" in ""Top Hat"" (1935), ""Let's Face the Music and Dance"" in ""Follow the Fleet"" (1936) and ""Change Partners"""
"mid-1930s. His scores include those for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films ""Born to Dance"" (1936), with James Stewart, featuring ""You'd Be So Easy to Love"" and ""I've Got You Under My Skin"", and ""Rosalie"" (1937), featuring ""In the Still of the Night"". He wrote the score of the short film ""Paree, Paree"", in 1935, using some of the songs from ""Fifty Million Frenchmen"". Porter also composed the cowboy song ""Don't Fence Me In"" for ""Adios, Argentina"", an unproduced movie, in 1934, but it did not become a hit until Roy Rogers sang it in the 1944 film ""Hollywood Canteen"". Bing Crosby, The"
"Gay Divorce Gay Divorce is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Dwight Taylor, adapted by Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. It was Fred Astaire's last Broadway show and featured the hit song ""Night and Day"" in which Astaire danced with co-star Claire Luce. It was made into a musical film by RKO Radio Pictures in 1934, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and renamed ""The Gay Divorcee"". Guy Holden, an American writer traveling in England, falls madly in love with a woman named Mimi, who disappears after their first encounter. To take his mind"
"became such a classic during World War II that Max Beckmann adopted the title for a painting in 1946 (now at University of Michigan Museum of Art). Begin the Beguine ""Begin the Beguine"" is a popular song written by Cole Porter. Porter composed the song between Kalabahi, Indonesia, and Fiji during a 1935 Pacific cruise aboard Cunard's ocean liner ""Franconia"". In October 1935, it was introduced by June Knight in the Broadway musical ""Jubilee"", produced at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. Musicologist and composer Alec Wilder described it in his book ""American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900–1950"""
"Goes"". The following is a list of many of the references made in the song: P. G. Wodehouse anglicised it for the British version of ""Anything Goes"". Amongst other changes, he altered two lines from ""You’re an O’Neill drama / You’re Whistler’s mama!"" to ""You’re Mussolini / You’re Mrs Sweeny"") Porter biographer William McBrien wrote that at the height of its popularity in 1934 to 1935 it had become a ""popular pastime"" to create parodies of the lyrics. Porter, who himself had called the song ""just a trick"" the public would get bored by was flooded with hundreds of parodies"
"she is lonely. Porter's melody is musically intertwined with the lyric scheme in a similar manner to his classic song ""Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye"". British soul singer Lisa Stansfield recorded ""Down in the Depths"" for ""Red Hot + Blue"", a 1990 Cole Porter tribute album in aid of HIV/AIDS awareness. Down in the Depths (On the Ninetieth Floor) ""Down in the Depths (on the Ninetieth Floor)"" is a torch song written by Cole Porter, for his 1936 musical ""Red, Hot and Blue"", in which it was introduced by Ethel Merman. The lyric scheme juxtaposes images of high and low:"
"of Ella Fitzgerald's take. In 2015, Katie Derham danced the Charleston to 'Too Darn Hot' on the thirteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing with her professional dancing partner Anton Du Beke. Too Darn Hot ""Too Darn Hot"" is a song written by Cole Porter for his musical ""Kiss Me, Kate"" (1948). In the stage version, it is sung at the start of Act 2, and in the 1948 original Broadway production, it was sung by Lorenzo Fuller (as Paul) and Eddie Sledge and Fred Davis (as the specialty dancers), leading the full company. In the 1953 MGM Hollywood film version,"
"So Near and yet So Far ""So Near and yet So Far"" is a song written by Cole Porter, for the 1941 film ""You'll Never Get Rich"", where it was introduced by Fred Astaire, and accompanied a dance with Astaire and Rita Hayworth, choreographed by Robert Alton. Astaire and Hayworth's performance was significant as the only occasion where Astaire's female dancing partner led the choreography of the dance. Porter's biographer, William McBrien described the song as ""beautiful and highly successful"". Priscilla Peña Ovalle in her book ""Dance and the Hollywood Latina"" describes the song as a ""latune"", a ""tune with"
"1934. The song was reprised by Irene Dunne, who performed it in the 1935 film adaptation of the musical co-starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. The song was also included in the 1952 remake of ""Roberta"", ""Lovely to Look At"", in which it was performed by Kathryn Grayson, and was a number 1 chart hit in 1958 for The Platters. Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra performed the song with vocals by Bob Lawrence. This version of the song topped music charts in 1934. The Tommy Dorsey orchestra released their version in 1938. The B-side to Dorsey's single was"
"essence implicit in the title..."" and he also noted the ""near-perfect cast"" and ""sure-handed direction"" of Monty Wooley. Fifty Million Frenchmen Fifty Million Frenchmen is a musical comedy with a book by Herbert Fields and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It opened on Broadway in 1929 and was adapted for a film two years later. The title is a reference to the hit 1927 song ""Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong"" by Willie Raskin, Billy Rose, and Fred Fisher, which compared free attitudes in 1920s Paris with censorship and prohibition in the United States. The musical's plot is consistent"
"to the tune of the popular German song ""Lili Marleen"" (popularised in English by Marlene Dietrich), called ""The Ballad of the D-Day Dodgers"". This song has also been attributed to Lance-Sergeant Harry Pynn of the Tank Rescue Section, 19 Army Fire Brigade. When told she was one of the people listed to be arrested, imprisoned and face possible execution in ""The Black Book"" under a German invasion of Britain, Lady Astor commented: ""It is the complete answer to the terrible lie that the so-called 'Cliveden Set' was pro-Fascist."" Lady Astor did not acknowledge her loss of popularity. She believed her"
"Anything Goes (Cole Porter song) ""Anything Goes"" is a song written by Cole Porter for his musical ""Anything Goes"" (1934). Many of the lyrics include humorous references to figures of scandal and gossip from Depression-era high society. One couplet refers to Samuel Goldwyn's box-office failure ""Nana"" starring Anna Sten, whose English was said to be incomprehensible to all except Goldwyn (Goldwyn was from Poland and Sten Ukraine). Frank Sinatra recorded the song for Capitol from October 17, 1955, to January 16, 1956. His version was included on ""Songs for Swingin' Lovers!"" in March 1956. Almost simultaneously, Chris Connor recorded the"
"Oh! Mr Porter ""Oh! Mr Porter"" is an old British music hall song about a girl ""going too far"". It was famously part of the repertoires of the artistes Norah Blaney and It was written in 1892 by George Le Brunn and his brother Thomas, and taken on an extended provincial tour that same year by Marie Lloyd. The lyrics include this chorus: Birmingham is the second city of England. Crewe is a town better known as a railway junction than as a destination. The song is alluded to in the 1922 novel ""Ulysses"" by James Joyce. The title of"
"Rose Macaulay's 1926 novel ""Crewe Train"" is a reference to the song. The 1937 film ""Oh, Mr Porter!"" starring Will Hay was clearly at least in part inspired by the song ""Oh! Mr Porter"". Hay's character is called Mr William Porter; although he is not in fact a railway porter, but the stationmaster of a Northern Irish station; this leads to some confusion, typical of Hay's films. A snatch of the song can be heard over the opening credits although this version says, ""I want to go to Birmingham, and they're taking me on to Crewe! Oh, Mr Porter! What"
"chart the next week but moved back to number two the week after. Anything Goes (Cole Porter song) ""Anything Goes"" is a song written by Cole Porter for his musical ""Anything Goes"" (1934). Many of the lyrics include humorous references to figures of scandal and gossip from Depression-era high society. One couplet refers to Samuel Goldwyn's box-office failure ""Nana"" starring Anna Sten, whose English was said to be incomprehensible to all except Goldwyn (Goldwyn was from Poland and Sten Ukraine). Frank Sinatra recorded the song for Capitol from October 17, 1955, to January 16, 1956. His version was included on"
"captain of ""Normandie"" sent a message saying ""Bravo to the ""Queen Mary"" until next time!"" This rivalry could have gone on into the 1940s, but was ended by World War II. ""Normandie"" carried distinguished passengers, including the authors Colette and Ernest Hemingway; the wife of French President Albert Lebrun; songwriters Noël Coward and Irving Berlin; and Hollywood celebrities such as Fred Astaire, Marlene Dietrich, Walt Disney, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, and James Stewart. ""Normandie"" also carried the von Trapp family singers of ""The Sound of Music"" from New York to Southampton in 1938, and from Southampton, the family went to Scandinavia"
"reductions in the railway network. Oh! Mr Porter ""Oh! Mr Porter"" is an old British music hall song about a girl ""going too far"". It was famously part of the repertoires of the artistes Norah Blaney and It was written in 1892 by George Le Brunn and his brother Thomas, and taken on an extended provincial tour that same year by Marie Lloyd. The lyrics include this chorus: Birmingham is the second city of England. Crewe is a town better known as a railway junction than as a destination. The song is alluded to in the 1922 novel ""Ulysses"" by"
"the song by the singer and well-known Broadway star Mary Martin (with Ray Sinatra's orchestra), recorded in 1944. Another example is Billie Holiday, in 1941. Peggy Lee with the Benny Goodman orchestra recorded a version in 1941 with these lyrics. Porter changed the opening to the refrain: ""Birds do it, bees do it"" when he realized that the line was offensive. Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love ""Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love"" (also known as ""Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)"" or simply ""Let's Do It"") is a popular song written in 1928 by Cole Porter."
"a Cole Porter medley on his farewell album, released on his 80th birthday. Shirley Bassey recorded the song in 1963 for her EP ""In Other Words..."". In 1958, Polly Bergen and guests Dick Van Dyke and Carol Haney performed ""Just One of Those Things"" on her short-lived NBC variety show, ""The Polly Bergen Show"". Just One of Those Things (song) ""Just One of Those Things"" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the 1935 musical ""Jubilee"". Porter had written the score for ""Jubilee"" while on an extended sea cruise in the early part of 1935: however, in September"
"Too Darn Hot ""Too Darn Hot"" is a song written by Cole Porter for his musical ""Kiss Me, Kate"" (1948). In the stage version, it is sung at the start of Act 2, and in the 1948 original Broadway production, it was sung by Lorenzo Fuller (as Paul) and Eddie Sledge and Fred Davis (as the specialty dancers), leading the full company. In the 1953 MGM Hollywood film version, it is moved to a much earlier point, and it is sung by Ann Miller (as Lois Lane, Fred's new girlfriend, who is cast as Bianca). The song does not contribute"
"Don't Fence Me In (song) ""Don't Fence Me In"" is a popular American song written in 1934, with music by Cole Porter and lyrics by Robert Fletcher and Cole Porter. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. Originally written in 1934 for ""Adios, Argentina,"" an unproduced 20th Century Fox film musical, ""Don't Fence Me In"" was based on text by Robert (Bob) Fletcher, a poet and engineer with the Department of Highways in Helena, Montana. Cole Porter, who had been asked to write a cowboy song for"
"the song ""At Long Last Love"" (1938), originally written by Cole Porter for the musical ""You Never Know"" (1938), Frank Sinatra sings ""Is it Granada I see, or only Asbury Park?"" Bruce Springsteen named his first album ""Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J."" in 1973 and described his early life there. The artist has also dedicated many songs to Asbury Park such as ""4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)"" and ""My City of Ruins"" on his 2002 album, ""The Rising"". The group mewithoutYou references Asbury Park several times on their album ""Ten Stories"" (2012). The song ""Bear's Vision of St. Agnes"""
"a Latin beat and an English-language lyric"" that was a ""U.S. consumer-friendly approximation"" of an Afro-Cuban rumba. Theorist Gustavo Perez Firmat discussed ""So Near and Yet So Far"" in his book ""The Havana Habit"" and described it as ""the most elegant rumba ever captured on film"". So Near and yet So Far ""So Near and yet So Far"" is a song written by Cole Porter, for the 1941 film ""You'll Never Get Rich"", where it was introduced by Fred Astaire, and accompanied a dance with Astaire and Rita Hayworth, choreographed by Robert Alton. Astaire and Hayworth's performance was significant as"