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In 1990, Red Hot + Blue was released - a pretty solid collection of covers of Cole Porter by a whole slew of famous folks. Remarkably, a video was made for almost every single, with a TV special airing on this date, 18 years ago. It was a bit of an event. Martha and I visited friends and the four of us huddled around the TV, passing comment as the songs went by. The range...
Pianist, vocalist and pop music scholar John Eaton opened his 21st season of concerts at the Wolf Trap Barns on Saturday night with "Indiana on Our Minds: The Music of Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael," a program first introduced at the venue in the mid-'80s. More people knew who these fellow...
“The Gay Divorcee,” showcasing the song “Night and Day” by Cole Porter, opened on Broadway on this date. Porter claimed that the Islamic call to worship he heard on a trip to Morocco inspired the song. The movie, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, appeared in 1934. Ironically, the movie won the Academy Award [...]
Happy Thanksgiving! I'm giving thanks for great American music and Broadway, the source of so much of that music. If you're feeling low, may I suggest listening to the lyrics of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Ira Gershwin and all the...
"Is it good turtle soup or merely the mock?" That's a line from Cole Porter's "At Long Last Love," written in 1938. Well to be sure, I had to research what the hell is actually involved in turtle soup. According to my Google search, my instincts were correct, and it's exactly what it implies. Oddly ...
Victoria: Founded in Vancouver 10 years ago,Forbidden flutes is a dynamic,classical crossover flute duo,whose playful ensemble explores everything from latin and Jazz originals to Cole Porter and Radiohead arrangements.
Leslie Hutchinson, born on the spice island of Grenada in 1900, was one of the biggest cabaret stars in the world. ( Leslie Hutchinson - Hutch ) And he was a bisexual gigolo. The 'sensationally well-endowed' Hutch had sexual relationships with Cole Porter, Ivor Novello, and the actress Tallulah Bankhead and royalty. The Mountbattens Hutch had an affair with the 'bisexual' Edwina Mountbatten, wife of...
It was Cole Porter who wrote the witty lyric "In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking now heaven knows, anything goes". Ain't that the truth! "A mother shocked by seeing two half-naked men having sex while out walking the dogs with her daughter was told by police to take a different route in future. Marie Cragg, 44, spoke of her disgust at the officers' reaction and...
Today's video comes from London's The Real Tuesday Weld. The song, Kix, is a cover of Cole Porter's beloved classic I Get A Kick Out You set to electronica beats and sung here by a Powerpuffed stand-in for lead singer...
If all goes according to plan, Reba McEntire will be returning to Broadway early next year in a revival of Anything Goes, the Cole Porter musical which introduced such standards as You're the Top, I Get a Kick Out of You and, naturally, Anything Goes.
Broadway Melody of 1940 is a 1940 MGM movie musical starring Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell and George Murphy. It was directed by Norman Taurog and features music by Cole Porter, including "Begin the Beguine". The film was the fourth and final entry in MGM's "Broadway Melody" series of films, and is notable for being the only on-screen pairing of Astaire and Powell, who were considered the finest movie...
YOU're the top You're a blue sapphire You're the top You're Reba McEntire By way of Cole Porter, I'm happy to report today that the delightful Reba McEntire may be back on Broadway next year, starring in a revival of "Anything Goes" for...
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238. De-Lovely (2004) A musical's only as good as its music and this one has some kickass tunes. Why don't we have songwriters like Cole Porter anymore? Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd really support the music, too, with some terrific singing and dancing (if that's really their voices, anyway. ;) ).And not only does the film have great music, but it tries to innovate the old genre with MST3000 commentary....
