Miscellaneous Songs

The Bobolink Waltz [sheet music]
 

Songs of Childhood

  • "Song of the Birds" (1901)
    [instrumental]
  • "The Bobolink Waltz" (1902)
    [privately published]
  • "Fi, Fi Fifi" (circa 1905-1909)
  • "The Bearded Lady" (c. 1905-1909)
  • "The Tattooed Gentleman"
    (c. 1905-1909)
  • "Class Song" (1909)




     

The College YearsBingo Eli Yale [sheet music]

  • "When the Summer Moon Comes 'Long" (circa 1909-1910)
  • "Bridget McGuire" (c. 1909-1910)
    [first published song, as "Bridget"]
  • "The Motor Car" (c. 1909-1910)
  • "Yellow Melodrama" (c. 1909-1912)
  • "Antoinette Birby" (c. 1909-1912)
  • "Beware of Yale" (c. 1909-1913)
  • "Fla De Dah" (c. 1909-1913)
  • "Mercy Percy" (c. 1909-1913)
  • "Moon, Moon" (c. 1909-1913)
  • "Mory's" (c. 1909-1913)
  • "Music With Meals" (c. 1909-1913)
  • "No Show This Evening" (c. 1909-1913)
  • "Perfectly Terrible" (c. 1909-1913)
  • "Since Dolly's Come to Town" (c. 1909-1913)
  • "Bingo Eli Yale" (1910)
  • "I Want to Be a Yale Boy" (1910)
  • "I Want to Be a Prom Girl" (1910)
  • "The Motor Car" (1910-1911)
  • "Hail to Yale" (1911) [Music by Arthur Troostwyck]
  • "Eli" (1911)

    • Bulldog [sheet music]

  • "Bull Dog" (1911)
  • "A Football King" (1912) [Rewritten for The Pot of Gold as "If I Were a Football Man"]
  • "It Pays to Advertise" (1912)
  • "When I'm Eating Around With You" (1912)
  • "When We're Wed" ("Once We're Wed") (1912)
  • "Esmeralda" (1913) [from The Kaleidoscope; interpolated into Hands Up, which opened on July 22, 1915 at the 44th Street Theatre; it was Porter's first song to be performed on Broadway]
  • "Craigie 404" (c. 1913-1914)
  • "The Talk You Hear at the Prom" (c. 1913-1914)
  • "Class of 1913 Song" (1914)
  • "Cincinnati" (1914) [only surviving song from We're All Dressed Up and We Don't Know Huerto Go, performed May 22, 1914 by the Yale University Dramatic Association]

 
After Yale

  • "Two Big Eyes" (1915) [lyrics by John Golden; interpolated in Miss Information, which opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on October 5, 1915]
  • "War Song" (c. 1915-1920)
  • "Cleveland" (c. 1915-1920)
  • "Katie of the Y.M.C.A." (c. 1917-1918)
  • "It Puzzles Me So" (c. 1917-1918)
  • "Alone With You" (1918) [written with Melville Gideon; used in Very Good Eddie, which opened at the Palace Theatre, London, on May 18, 1918]
  • "Altogether Too Fond of You" (1918) [written with Melville Gideon; used in Telling the Tale, which opened at the Ambassadors' Theatre, London, on August 31, 1918 for 90 performances]
  • "Widow's Cruise" (1919?)
  • "Venus of Milo" (1919?)
  • "You Make Up" (1919?)
  • "A Table for Two" (1919?)
  • "I Never Realized" (1919) [performed in Buddies (opened October 27, 1919 at the Selwyn Theatre, New York) and in The Eclipse, which opened at the Garrick Theatre, London, on November 12, 1919; see recording info below]
  • "Washington Square" (1919) [lyrics by Cole Porter and E. Ray Goetz; music by Melville Gideon; performed as "In Chelsea Somewhere" in The Eclipse (see above for production info; see recording info below); also performed in As You Were (opened January 27, 1920 at the Central Theatre, New York)]

 
The Twenties

  • "Look Around" (1920) [lyrics by Clifford Grey; written for A Night Out, which opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, London, on September 18, 1920, and ran for 309 performances; see recording info below]
  • "Why Didn't We Meet Before?" (1920) [lyrics by Clifford Grey; written for A Night Out; see above; see recording info below]
  • "Our Hotel" (1920) [lyrics by Clifford Grey; written for A Night Out; see above]
  • "Don't Tell Me Who You Are" (early 1920's)
  • "Olga (Come Back to the Volga)" (1922) [written for Mayfair and Montmartre which opened at the New Oxford Theatre, London, on March 9, 1922, and ran for 77 performances]
  • "Cocktail Time" (1922) [written for Mayfair and Montmartre; see above]
  • "The Blue Boy Blues" (1922) [written for Mayfair and Montmartre; see above]
  • "The Bandit Band" (1922) [an early version was not used in Mayfair and Montmartre; rewritten for Hitchy-Koo of 1922]
  • "Wond'ring Night and Day" (1922) [written for but not used in Mayfair and Montmartre]
  • "Ragtime Pipes of Pan" (1922) [written for Phi-Phi which opened at the London Pavilion Theatre on August 16, 1922]
  • "Butterflies" (1925) [written for Out O' Luck, produced in 1925 and 1926 by the Yale University Dramatic Association, directed by Monty Woolley]
  • "Mademazelle" (1925) [written for Out O' Luck, see above]
  • "Opera Star" (1925) [written for Out O' Luck, see above]
  • "Italian Street Singers" (1926)
  • "Sex Appeal" (1927)
  • "Hot-House Rose" (1927) [written for Fanny Brice's nightclub act]
  • "Weren't We Fools?" (1927) [written for Fanny Brice's nightclub act]
  • "The Laziest Gal in Town" (1927) [sung by Marlene Dietrich in Alfred Hitchcock's film Stage Fright (1950)]

    • Here Comes the Bandwagon [sheet music]

  • "Here Comes the Bandwagon" (1929) [written for The Battle of Paris, a Paramount Pictures film released November 30, 1929, starring Gertrude Lawrence]
  • "They All Fall in Love" (1929) [written for The Battle of Paris, see above; see recording info below]
  • "I'm Dining With Elsa" (late 1920's)
  • "That Little Old Bar in the Ritz" (late 1920's)
  • "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em" (unknown)
  • "Oh, Honey" (unknown)
  • "Poor Young Millionaire" (unknown) [song reconstructed with new music by Peter Bogdanovich and Artie Butler for the film At Long Last Love (1974)]
  • "The Scampi" (unknown) [music used for "The Tale of the Oyster" in Fifty Million Frenchmen]

 
The Thirties

  • "What's My Man Gonna Be Like?" (1930) [written for Evelyn Hoey to sing in The Vanderbilt Revue, which opened at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 5, 1930]
  • "Miss Otis Regrets" (1934) [first performed on stage by Douglas Bing in Hi Diddle Diddle, which opened October 3, 1934 at the Savoy Theatre, London; see recording info below]
  • "Thank You So Much, Mrs. Lowsborough-Goodby" (1934) [recorded by Cole Porter on October 26, 1934; see recording info below]
  • "Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye" (1936) [written for Born to Dance, but not used; also dropped from Red, Hot and Blue; then used in the London production of O Mistress Mine, which opened on December 3, 1936 at the St. James Theatre; see recording info below]
  • "It All Belongs to You" (1938) [written for Rene Clair's film Break the News (US Release, 1941)]
  • "River God" (1938) [written for The Sun Never Sets which opened at the Drury Lane, London, on June 9, 1938; see recording info below]
  • "What Am I To Do? (1939) [written for Kaufman-Hart's play The Man Who Came to Dinner which opened at the Music Box Theatre, New York, on October 16, 1939]
  • "At Last in Your Arms" (1939) [written for the M-G-M film Balalaika, but not used]
  • "Java" (1930's, unknown)
  • "How Do They Do It?" (1930's, unknown)
  • "Maybe Yes, Maybe No" (1930's, unknown)
  • "The Upper Park Avenue" (1930's, unknown)
  • "Dressing Daughter for Dinner" (unknown)

 
The Forties

  • "So Long, Samoa" (1940)
    [music used later for "Farewell, Amanda"
    in the film Adam's Rib (1949)]
  • "Glide, Glider, Glide" (1942)
  • "Sailors of the Sky" (1943)
    [written for, but rejected by, the Navy]
  • "The Gold Dusters Song" (1946)
    [written for the Vassar singing group The Gold Dusters]
  • "I Gaze in Your Eyes" (1940's ?)
    [recorded with new music by Ann Hampton Callaway on Cole Porter Revisited, Vol. 5]
  • "Farewell, Amanda" (1949)
    [written for the film Adam's Rib; same music as "So Long, Samoa"]

Original Cast Recordings

"Chelsea" / "I Never Realized" - Nancy Gibbs and F. Pope Stamper

  • 78 RPM, 1919 [Columbia (UK) F-1033]

"Chelsea" / "I Never Realized" - Garrick Theatre Orchestra

  • 78 RPM, 1919 [Columbia (UK) 783]

"Why Didn't We Meet Before" - Lily St. John, Leslie Henson

  • 78 RPM, 1920 [Columbia (UK) F-1061]

"Looking Around" [aka "Look Around"] - Lily St. John

  • 78 RPM, 1920 [Columbia (UK) F-1062]

"Miss Otis Regrets" - Douglas Byng

  • 78 RPM, 1934 [Decca (UK) F-5249]

"Thank You So Much, Mrs. Lowsborough-Goodby" - Cole Porter

  • 78 RPM, 1935 [Victor 24766]

"Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye" - Yvonne Printemps with the Carroll Gibbons Orchestra

  • 78 RPM, 1936 [HMV (UK) DA 1539]

"River God" - Todd Duncan

  • 78 RPM, 1938 [Columbia (UK) DB-1778]

Contemporaneous Recordings

"They All Fall in Love" - Will Osborne and His Orchestra

  • 78 RPM, 1929 [Columbia 2044-D]

"Miss Otis Regrets" - Anita Day

  • 78 RPM, 1934 [Brunswick A-500474]

"Miss Otis Regrets" - Peggy Johnson and Her Orchestra

  • 78 RPM, 1934 [Victor 24691]

"Miss Otis Regrets" - Jimmy Lunceford

  • 78 RPM, 1934 [Decca 130]

"Miss Otis Regrets" - Ethel Waters

  • 78 RPM, 1934 [Decca 140]

"Miss Otis Regrets" - The Mills Brothers

  • 78 RPM, 1934 [Decca 166]

"Miss Otis Regrets" - Cab Calloway and His Orchestra

  • 78 RPM, 1935 [Brunswick 7504]

"Miss Otis Regrets" - Jean Sablon

  • 78 RPM, 1935 [Columbia DF-1672]

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