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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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    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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  • "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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  • 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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  • 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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  • "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,...
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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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  • American Songbook includes standards by Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard...
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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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  • "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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    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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  • "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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  • 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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    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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  • "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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    circles. Woolley received a bachelor's degree at Yale University, where Cole Porter was an intimate friend and classmate, and master's degrees from Yale...
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    River. Cole Porter, the famous American songwriter, was enrolled in Harvard Law School in 1913. Porter did not take to the study of law. Porter met with...
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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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  • "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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Songbook is a 1959 album by Oscar Peterson, of compositions by Cole Porter. "In the Still of the Night" – 2:49 "It's...
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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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  • I Get a Kick Out of You (category Songs written by Cole Porter)
    "I Get a Kick Out of You" is a song by Cole Porter, which was first sung in the 1934 Broadway musical Anything Goes, and then in the 1936 film version...
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  • Night and Day (1946 film) (category Films scored by Cole Porter)
    fictionalized account of the life of American composer and songwriter Cole Porter. The movie was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Arthur Schwartz...
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