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| Cole Porter 1891-1964 |
Next to Stephen Sondheim, my favorite song composer is Cole Porter. Like Sondheim, he is one of few composers of musical theatre that wrote both music and lyrics. His music a has touches of jazz and blues. His lyrics are quite sophisticated. Although he wrote hundreds of songs for various revues and musicals, he is most famous for 2 shows ..... ANYTHING GOES (1934) and KISS ME KATE (1948).
He lived quite a life. There is a great bio movie about him called DE-LOVELY starring Kevin Kline that you should check out.
Here are some clips of Cole Porter songs that are my favorites ....
and what I think is my favorite Porter song and one of my top favorite musical theatre songs .....
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