You're Sensational: Cole Porter in the '20s, '40s, & '50s

Presented by the Indiana Historical
Society and Koch International Classics
Executive Producer: Raymond L.
Shoemaker, Indiana Historical Society
Produced by Susan Elliot, Robert Kimball,
and Richard M. Sudhalter
Includes booklet with an essay on Porter
(by Robert Kimball), song notes and
performer biographies (by Richard M.
Sudhalter), a Porter Chronology (by Kimball),
discography, and bibliography.

  • Three Compact Discs, 1999 [Sony A-33714 / EMI 72434-98523-2-7]

    • Selections

    Note: Selections in red are original cast recordings.  Date of recording follows the artist name.

    Disc One

    See America First

    • "I've a Shooting Box in Scotland" - Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire [conductor: Phil Moore] July 17, 1975 (3:23)

    Hitchy-Koo of 1919

    • "Old-Fashioned Garden" - Olive Kline [conductor: Josef Pasternak] December 18, 1919 (2:39)

    Greenwich Village Follies of 1924

    • "Two Little Babes in the Woods" - Cole Porter November 27, 1934 (3:06)
    • "I'm in Love Again" - Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra May 9, 1927 (3:04)
    • "I'm in Love Again" - Daryl Sherman November 16, 1992 (4:20)

    Paris

    • "Don't Look at Me That Way" - Irene Bordoni with Irving Aaronson's Commanders June 24, 1928 (3:27)
    • "Let's Misbehave" - Banjo Buddy April 12, 1928 (2:37)
    • "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" - Leslie Hutchinson February, 1929 (3:30)
    • "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" - Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra February 27, 1937 (3:09)

    Wake Up and Dream

    • "Wake Up and Dream" - George Metaxa April, 1929 (3:03)
    • "Looking at You" - Ruby Braff - George Barnes Quartet April 22, 1974 (3:28)
    • "Looking at You" - Jackie and Roy March 23, 1956 (4:35)
    • "What is This Thing Called Love?" - Leo Reisman and His Orchestra January 20, 1930 (3:17)
    • "What is This Thing Called Love?" - Leslie Hutchinson March, 1929 (2:53)
    • "What is This Thing Called Love?" - The King Cole Trio January 17, 1944 (2:53)

    The Battle of Paris

    • "They All Fall in Love" - Jack Hylton and His Orchestra May 10, 1930 (2:53)

    Fifty Million Frenchmen

    • "You Do Something to Me" - Marlene Dietrich [conductor: Victor Young] December 19, 1939 (2:56)
    • "You've Got That Thing" - Maurice Chevalier [conductor: Leonard Joy] January 28, 1930 (2:47)
    • "The Tale of the Oyster" - Joan Morris & William Bolcom May 17, 1988 (2:23)
    • "I Worship You" - Hildegarde [conductor: Harry Sosnik] April 14, 1941 (3:05)
    • "Why Don't We Try Staying Home" - Elaine Stritch 1974 (2:51)

    Miscellaneous Songs

    • "Hot House Rose" - Lee Wiley with Bunny Berigan's Music April 10, 1940 (2:42)
    • "The Laziest Gal in Town" - Mae Barnes January 19, 1953 (2:10)

    Disc Two

    Panama Hattie

    • "I've Still Got My Health" - Ethel Merman [conductor: Gene Salzer] Late 1940-Early 1941 (2:58)
    • "Make It Another Old-Fashioned Please" - Ethel Merman [conductor: Gene Salzer] Late 1940-Early 1941 (2:55)
    • "Let's Be Buddies" - Ethel Merman with Judy Garland [conductor: Mort Lindsay] December 13, 1963 (:55)

    You'll Never Get Rich

    • "Dream Dancing" - Fred Astaire [conductor: Harry Sosnik] September 10, 1941 (2:44)
    • "Dream Dancing" - Dave McKenna February 28, 1973 (4:40)
    • "So Near and Yet So Far" - Fred Astaire December, 1952 (3:18)

    Let's Face It

    • "Ev'rything I Love" - Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra [vocal: Lillian Lane] November 17, 1941 (2:54)
    • "Ace in the Hole" - Mabel Mercer November 7, 1954 (2:37)
    • "Let's Not Talk About Love" - Danny Kaye [conductor: Johnny Green] January 9, 1942 (2:24)

    Something to Shout About

    • "Through Thick and Thin" - Hazel Scott October 30, 1942 (2:34)
    • "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" - Barbara Lea May 1, 1957 (3:20)
    • "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" - Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins October 16, 1957 (4:15)

    Something For the Boys

    • "By the Missisinewah" - Paula Laurence and Betty Garrett [conductor: Leonard Joy] April 27, 1944 (3:18)

    Mexican Hayride

    • "Girls" - Wilbur Evans [conductor: Harry Sosnik] April 7, 1944 (2:15)
    • "I Love You" - Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine [conductor: Joe Lipman] December 22, 1949 (2:37)

    Seven Lively Arts

    • "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" - Teddy Wilson Quintet [vocal: Maxine Sullivan] January 8, 1945 (3:04)
    • "Only Another Boy and Girl" - Benny Goodman Quintet [vocal: Jane Harvey] December 21, 1944 (2:57)

    The Pirate

    • "Be a Clown" - Gene Kelly and Judy Garland [conductor: Lenny Hayton] 1948 (2:50)

    Kiss Me, Kate

    • "Another Op'nin', Another Show" - Annabelle Hill with Chorus [conductor: Pembroke Davenport] January 16, 1949 (1:42)
    • "Wunderbar" - Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae [conductor: Paul Weston] January 14, 1950 (2:45)
    • "So in Love" - Robert Merrill with Roberta Peters [conductor: Charles Sanford] March 7, 1952 (2:13)
    • "So in Love" - Dick Wellstood January, 1977 (2:31)
    • "I Hate Men" - Patricia Morison [conductor: Freddie Bretherton] March 15, 1951 (2:13)
    • "Where is the Life That Late I Led?" - Alfred Drake [conductor: Pembroke Davenport] January 13, 1949 (4:24)
    • "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" - Harry Clark and Jack Diamond [conductor: Pembroke Davenport] January 18, 1949 (1:40)

    Disc Three

    Kiss Me, Kate

    • "Too Darn Hot" - Mel Torme [conductor: Marty Paich] February 4, 1960 (2:44)
    • "Were Thine That Special Face" - Alfred Drake [conductor: Pembroke Davenport] January 13, 1949 (4:11)

    Out of This World

    • "Use Your Imagination" - Jo Stafford [conductor: Paul Weston] October 16, 1950 (2:37)
    • "Chery Pies Ought to Be You" - William Redfield, Barbara Ashley, David Burns, Charlotte Greenwood [conductor: Pembroke Davenport] December 31, 1950 (3:12)
    • "From This Moment On" - Rosemary Clooney [conductor: Buddy Cole] June, 1955 (1:52)
    • "From This Moment On" - Marian McPartland December, 1978 (4:13)

    Can-Can

    • "C'est Magnifique" - Cole Porter Autumn, 1952 (3:41)
    • "I Am in Love" - Bobby Short [conductor: Richard Hazard] September 15-16, 1982 (3:12)
    • "It's All Right With Me" - Frank Sinatra [conductor: Nelson Riddle] August 27, 1959 (4:12)
    • "It's All Right With Me" - Erroll Garner Trio September 15, 1955 (3:31)
    • "I Love Paris" - Yank Lawson and His Yankee Clippers 1959 (2:58)
    • "Allez-Vous En" - Greta Keller April 30, 1972 (1:27)

    Silk Stockings

    • "Stereophonic Sound" - Gretchen Wyler [conductor: Philip Greene] March 6, 1955 (2:21)
    • "All of You" - Fred Astaire [conductor: Andre Previn] Late 1956 (1:12)
    • "Siberia" - Henry Lasco, Leon Belasco, David Opatoshu [conductor: Philip Greene] March 6, 1955 (2:47)

    Les Girls

    • "Ca C'est L'Amour" - Taina Elg [conductor: Adolph Deutsch] Mid-1957 (1:41)

    High Society

    • "High Society Calypso" - Louis Armstrong Early 1956 (2:11)
    • "I Love You Samantha" - The King's Singers 1972 (3:18)
    • "True Love" - Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly [conductor: Johnny Green] February 22, 1956 (3:05)
    • "You're Sensational" - Frank Sinatra [conductor: Johnny Green] April 5, 1956 (3:51)
    • "You're Sensational" - Ruby Braff [conductor: Neil Richardson] November, 1978 (4:40)
    • "Now You Has Jazz" - Bing Crosby with Louis Armstrong January 18, 1956 (4:15)
    • "Well, Did You Evah!" - Bing Crosby with Frank Sinatra [conductor: Johnny Green] January 17, 1956 (3:46)

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