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"Divaville Lounge" with Sarah O (archive)

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Sunday, June 9, 2024 | 14:00 to 16:00 | jazz/pop vocalists

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Artist	Song	Album	Label	Comments
Cole Porter	Anything Goes	American Songbook Series: Cole Porter	Smithsonian	written for Anything Goes, 1934. This performance was a 1934 demo
				Today's show is a birthday tribute to composer Cole Porter. All songs written by Cole Porter. Reference: COLE PORTER: A BIOGRAPHY by William McBrien
Bing Crosby o/ The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)	Bing Crosby: 1926-1932	Timeless Holland	written 1928 for Broadway show Paris. First example of the "list song" which Porter was very fond of writing. This recording 1929. This was Porter's first hit song and this was the first hit recording of it.
Irene Bordoni o/ Irving Aaronson & His Commanders	Let's Misbehave	78	RCA	written 1927 for Broadway show Paris. Cut from show in favor of "Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)". Bordoni and Aaronson's orchestra would have performed the song in the show. Aaronson later that year had a recording of this song which did not feature Bordoni and was a minor hit
Elsie Carlisle	What Is This Thing Called Love	78	Dominion	written 1929 for Broadway show Wake Up and Dream. This performance 1929. Carlisle performed the song in the show. The melody features innovative alternating major and minor key changes. Modern performances are usually much faster tempo.
Fred Astaire	After You, Who?	The Complete London Sessions	EMI	written 1932 for Broadway show The Gay Divorce. This performance 1932. Astaire performed the song in the show. In fact Porter convinced Astaire to perform in the show by playing this song for him. Astaire was Porter's favorite male vocalist to perform his songs. They became friends and when the NIGHT AND DAY biopic was made about Porter's life, he wanted Astaire to play him, but had to settle for Cary Grant (!)

Ella Fitzgerald	You Do Something to Me	The Cole Porter Songbook	Verve	written 1929 for show Fifty Million Frenchmen. Sung by Genevieve Tobin and William Gaston in the show. This performance 1956.
Shirley Horn	Love for Sale	Loads of Love	Mercury	written 1930 for the show The New Yorkers. Sung by Elisabeth Welch in the show. This performance 1963. The song was banned from radio for years because it described sex work without moral judgment.
Frank Sinatra	I Get a Kick Out of You	Songs for Young Lovers	Capitol	written 1931 for the unproduced show Star Dust; later used in Anything Goes. Performed by Ethel Merman in the show. This recording 1953. Sinatra and Nelson Riddle's recordings, especially this and "I've Got You Under My Skin," did more than anyone else to modernize Porter's songs and make them popular even today. The lyrics to this song were rewritten twice: first Porter removed a reference to Mrs. Lindbergh after the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. Then the reference to cocaine was removed & replaced multiple ways (Porter preferred "perfume from spain). Here Sinatra sings the lyric with the cocaine reference
Frank Sinatra o/ Red Norvo Quintet	Night and Day	Live In Australia, 1959	Reprise	written 1932 for The Gay Divorce. Sung by Fred Astaire in the show. This is the only Porter song from the show that was kept for the movie. This performance 1956. According to the biography, this is still one of ASCAP's top ten most profitable songs of all time. In my opinion this is the best of all interpretations of the song
Ethel Merman	You're the Top	Art Deco: Lovely Ladies of Stage and Screen	Columbia	written 1934 for the broadway show Anything Goes. Merman and William Gaxton sang the song in the show. This was the most popular song from the show at the time. To read a raunchy parody lyric for this song written by Irving Berlin, visit my Facebook page facebook.com/divavillelounge

Billie Holiday o/ Teddy Wilson	Easy to Love	Lady Day	Sony	Written 1934 for the show Anything Goes. Cut from the show as it was beyond the range of singer William Gaxton. Later used in the movie Born to Dance. This recording 1936. The song was written for Porter's lover Ed Tauch
Ella Fitzgerald	All Through the Night	The Cole Porter Songbook	Verve	written 1934 for the show Anything Goes. Sung in the show by William Gaxton and Betina Hume. This recording 1956. Note that Fitzgerald sings the "sectional verse," the introductory verse that sets the theme for the song. Many modern singers omit this
Anita O'Day	Why Shouldn't I	Swings Cole Porter With Billy May	Capitol	written 1935 for the show Jubilee. Sung by Margaret Adams in the show. This recording 1959.
Mel Torme	It's Delovely	Mel Torme at the Red Hill	Atlantic	written 1935 for the Broadway show Jubilee. Cut from the show and later used in the show Red Hot and Blue, sung by Ethel Merman & Bob Hope. This performance 1962.

Cole Porter	A Picture of Me Without You	Cole Sings Porter - Recordings Of Cole Porter Singing Music From Can-can And Jubilee	Koch International Classics	Written 1935 for the show Jubilee. Sung by June Knight and Charles Walters in the show. This recording 1935 was a demo for the show.
Artie Shaw Orchestra	Begin the Beguine	Greatest Hits	RCA	Written 1935 for the show Jubilee. Sung by June Knight in the show. This recording 1938
Lena Horne	Just One of Those Things	From This Moment On: The Songs of Cole Porter	Smithsonian	written 1935 for the show Jubilee. This performance 1957. The word "gossamer" in "a trip to the moon on gossamer wings" was suggested by Porter's lover Ed Tauch.
David Byrne	Don't Fence Me In	Red Hot + Blue	Chrysalis	Written 1934 for unproduced film Adios, Argentina. Later introduced by Roy Rogers in Hollywood Canteen (1944). This is one of the few songs Porter cowrote with another lyricist. Bob Fletcher. Fletcher sent draft lyrics to Porter who rewrote them into the final version. This recording 1990 for the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Blue.
Frank Sinatra	I've Got You Under My Skin	Songs for Swingin' Lovers	Capitol	written 1936 for movie Born to Dance. Sung by Virginia Bruce in the movie. This performance 1956.
Billy Eckstine o/ Quincy Jones	In the Still Of The Night	Night and Day: The Cole Porter Songbook	Capitol	written 1937 for the movie Rosalie. Sung by Nelson Eddy in the film. This performance 1961. On a personal note, this album is what first got me interested in this kind of music

Eartha Kitt	My Heart Belongs to Daddy	Legendary Earth Kitt	BMG	written 1938 for Broadway show Leave It to Me! Sung by Mary Martin in the show. This performance 1953.
Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim	I Concentrate on You	Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim	Reprise	written 1939 for the film Broadway Melody of 1940. Sung by Douglas McPhail in the film, to an Astaire/Powell dance number. This performance 1967.
Peggy Lee and George Shearing	Do I Love You?	Beauty and The Beat!	Capitol	Written 1939 for the show Du Barry Was a Lady. Sung by Ethel Merman and Ronald Graham in the show. This recording 1959
Julie London	You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To	The Very Best of Julie London	Capitol	Written 1943 for the film Something to Shout About. Sung by Janet Blair and Don Ameche in the film. Nominated for an Academy away. This performance 1960. Porter's lover Nelson Barclift called it "our song."
June Christy and Stan Kenton	Every Time We Say Goodbye	Anything Goes: Capitol Sings Cole Porter	Capitol	written 1944 for the show Seven Lively Arts. Sung by Nan Wynn and Dolores Gray in the show. This performance 1955
Ella Fitzgerald	Too Darn Hot	Mack The Knife: The Complete Ella in Berlin	Verve	Written 1948 for the Broadway show Kiss Me, Kate. Sung by Lorenzo Fuller in the show and Ann Miller in the movie. This performance 1960.
Blossom Dearie	Always True To You In My Fashion	Night and Day: The Cole Porter Songbook	Capitol	Written 1948 for the show Kiss Me, Kate. Based on "Sum Qualis Eram Bone sub Regno Cynarae," a satiric poem by Ernest Dowson which includes the line "I have been faithful to thee in my fashion." Sung by Patricia Morrison in the show and Ann Miller in the film. This performance 1960.
Chris Connor	From This Moment On	This Is Chris	Bethlehem	written 1950 for the show Out of This World but dropped from the show. Later used in the film Kiss Me Kate. This performance 1955.
k.d. lang	So In Love	Red Hot + Blue	Chrysalis	Written 1948 for the show Kiss Me, Kate. Sung by Patricia Morison in the show. This recording 1990 for the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Blue.
Cole Porter	C'est Magnifique	Cole Sings Porter - Recordings Of Cole Porter Singing Music From Can-can And Jubilee	Koch International Classics	written 1952 for the show Can-Can. Sung by Lila and Peter Cookson in the show. This recording 1952 was a demo for the show.