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    Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty...
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  • "Anything Goes" is a song written by Cole Porter for his 1934 musical of the same name. Many of the lyrics include humorous references to figures of scandal...
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    2019, with Harry Connick Jr. — A Celebration of Cole Porter, a multimedia celebration of the Cole Porter songbook. The production was conceived and directed...
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  • A partially complete list of songs by Cole Porter. Songs written at Yale University: “Antoinette Birby” “Bingo Eli Yale” “Bull Dog” Cora (1911 college...
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  • Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book is a 1956 studio double album by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a studio orchestra...
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    1954) was an American socialite and the wife of musical theatre composer Cole Porter. She was born Linda Belle Lee to the prominent Lee family of Virginia...
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  • "Love for Sale" is a song by Cole Porter introduced by Kathryn Crawford in the musical The New Yorkers, which opened on Broadway on December 8, 1930 and...
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  • The Cole Porter Songbook, also released as Charlie Parker Plays Cole Porter, is the last recorded studio album by alto saxophonist Charlie Parker. Recorded...
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  • American Songbook includes standards by Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard...
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  • "In the Still of the Night" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the MGM film Rosalie sung by Nelson Eddy and published in 1937. Two popular early...
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  • Do Something to Me" is a song written by Cole Porter. It is notable in that it was the first number in Porter's first fully integrated-book musical Fifty...
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  • "True Love" is a popular song written by American songwriter Cole Porter, published in 1956. The song was introduced by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in...
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    "Friendship" is a song written by Cole Porter from his 1939 musical DuBarry Was a Lady where it was introduced by Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr. The song...
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    Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love (category Songs from Cole Porter musicals)
    by Cole Porter. It was introduced in Porter's first Broadway success, the musical Paris (1928) by French chanteuse Irène Bordoni, for whom Porter had...
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  • by Cole Porter in 1944 for his stage musical Mexican Hayride. The New York Times reviewed the show, saying, among other things: "Of Mr. Porter's score...
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  • Don't Fence Me In (song) (category Songs written by Cole Porter)
    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...
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  • "All of You" is a popular song written by Cole Porter and published in 1954. It was introduced by Don Ameche in the Broadway musical Silk Stockings and...
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  • De-Lovely (category Cultural depictions of Cole Porter)
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by Jay Cocks is based on the life and career of Cole Porter, from his first meeting with his wife, Linda Lee Thomas, until his death...
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    tournaments, etc., shooting Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Richard Burton, Cole Porter, Judy Garland, Grace Kelly, Hedy Lamarr, Jennifer Jones, Deborah Kerr...
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  • Sinatra Sings Cole Porter is a 2008 compilation album by American singer, Frank Sinatra. All songs were written by Cole Porter. "Night and Day" "Begin...
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  • My Heart Belongs to Daddy (category Songs written by Cole Porter)
    "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" is a song written by Cole Porter for the musical Leave It to Me! which premiered on November 9, 1938. It was originally performed...
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  • element of 20th-century popular music and became a Broadway staple. Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Noël Coward, and Stephen Sondheim are composers and lyricists...
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  • "From This Moment On" is a 1950 popular song written by Cole Porter, which has since become a jazz standard. It was originally written for the 1950 musical...
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  • from the musical's book by Bella and Samuel Spewack. The songs were by Cole Porter, with musical underscoring by Saul Chaplin and André Previn, who were...
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    Winter. She appeared in the Cole Porter biopic De-Lovely. In 2001, she starred as herself in Livin' for Love: the Natalie Cole Story, for which she received...
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  • Night and Day (song) (category Songs written by Cole Porter)
    "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...
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    she had ever been, and included Cole Porter's "Love for Sale" in her repertoire. By 1924, she was in Paris. Cole Porter hosted many parties, "lovely parties"...
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  • "All Through the Night" is a 1934 popular song written by Cole Porter for his 1934 musical Anything Goes. The melody's distinguishing characteristic is...
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    standards and swing classics from composers such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Duke Ellington and Irving Berlin. Her fifth studio album...
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  • Miss Otis Regrets (category Songs written by Cole Porter)
    society woman after she murders her unfaithful lover. It was composed by Cole Porter in 1934, and first performed by Douglas Byng in Hi Diddle Diddle, a revue...
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