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PO Box 90689
Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
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Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | |||
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Astrud Gilberto | Look to the Rainbow | Look to the Rainbow | Verve | Pride weekend! | |||
Peggy Lee | It's a Good Day | Capitol From the Vaults, Vol. 2 | Capitol | ||||
Nat King Cole | Paint Yourself a Rainbow | Complete Capitol Recordings | Mosaic | ||||
Frank Sinatra | Love and Marriage | The Reprise Collection | Reprise | ||||
Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer | Two of a Kind | As Long As I'm Singing | |||||
Sammy Davis Jr. | I Married an Angel | All-Star Spectacular | Collector's Choice | ||||
Jack Wilbur and His Band | We'll All Go Riding On a Rainbow | Songs the Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us | |||||
Mills Blue Rhythm Band | A Rainbow Filled With Music | 1933-1936 | Retrieval Records | ||||
Cab Calloway | Don't Falter at the Altar | Are You Hep to the Jive? | Sony | ||||
The Jesters | I'm Proud to Be Me | Little Songs on Big Subjects | |||||
Johnny Hartman | Today I Love Everybody | Unforgettable | Impulse! | ||||
Wayne Newton | L-O-V-E | Wild, Cool & Swingin' | Capitol | ||||
Rosemary Clooney o/ Nelson Riddle | Get Me to the Church On TIme | Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle | Bluebird | ||||
Cole Porter | You're the Top | Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 30s | ASV | recorded 1934, Porter singing his own song. Porter, gay composer & lyricist, made enormous contribution to the Great American Songbook | |||
Fred Astaire | Night and Day | Fascinatin' Rhythm | ASV | c. Cole Porter, for Broadway show THE GAY DIVORCE | |||
Mel Torme | It's De-Lovely | The Bethlehem Years | Bethlehem Archive | ||||
Anita O'Day | From This Moment On | Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter with Billy May | Verve | ||||
Kay Starr | C'est Magnifique | Cocktails with Cole Porter | Capitol | ||||
Sarah Vaughan | What Is This Thing Called Love? | Sassy Swings the Tivoli | rec. live in Sweden 1963 | ||||
Leo Reisman & His Orchestra | What Is This Thing Called Love? | The Golden Age of American Sweet Bands | Jasmine | rec. 1930, song was written in 1929 | |||
Billie Holiday o/ Teddy Wilson | Easy to Love | Lady Day | Sony | ||||
Lena Horne | Love for Sale | Night and Day: the Cole Porter Songbook | Verve | ||||
Ella Fitzgerald | You Do Something to Me | The Cole Porter Songbook | Verve | ||||
Noel Coward | Let's Do It | The Noel Coward Album | Sony | ||||
Noel Coward | A Room With a View | Revue and War Years | JSP | rec. 1928 | |||
Noel Coward | Mad Dogs and Englishmen | Revue and War Years | JSP | rec. 1932 | |||
BIlly Strayhorn (vocal and piano) | Lush Life | Lush Life | Red Baron | Strayhorn performing his own song. Strayhorn worked for Ellington as arranger & composer for his entire career, & was more or less openly gay as early as the 1940s | |||
Duke Ellington Orchestra | Satin Doll | The Complete Capitol REcordings | Mosaic | ||||
Duke Ellington Orchestra | Take the 'A' Train | The Blanton-Webster Band | RCA | one of Strayhorn's first compositions for Ellington | |||
Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends | Lotus Blossom | Snatch and Grab It | EPM | ||||
Duke Ellington Orchestra | Chelsea Bridge | The Blanton-Webster Band | RCA | written 1941 | |||
Chet Baker | My Funny Valentine | The Best of Chet Baker Sings | Blue Note | gay lyricist Lorenz Hart | |||
Mel Torme | Blue Moon | Capitol Songs Rodgers & Hart | Capitol | this was Rodgers & Hart's most successful song | |||
Sarah Vaughan | Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye | Cocktails with Cole Porter | Capitol | written by Cole Porter |