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Authors: Cole Porter, Robert Kimball
ISBN-13: 9781931082945, ISBN-10: 1931082944
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Library of America
Date Published: April 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Cole Porter

Book Synopsis

Elegantly risque, suffused with understated emotion, delightful in their bursts of comic invention, the witty and romantic lyrics of Cole Porter evoke a golden age of song. Here is the cream of half a century of songwriting, from the Jazz Age resonance of "Let's Misbehave" to such 50s classics as "Too Darn Hot" and "It's All Right With Me"-more than ninety of the most enduring works of America's master of bittersweet sophistication.

The New York Times - David Barber

For those hankering after a happy medium between American poetry and American Idolatry, Kimball's reading edition affords a golden opportunity to brush up on your Porter just be sure to listen up, too, if you really want to be wowed.

	Introduction	xiii
	Bull Dog	1
	Antoinette Birby	1
	I've a Shooting Box in Scotland	4
	War Song	7
	Old-Fashioned Garden	7
	When I Had a Uniform On	8
	Two Little Babes in the Wood	10
	I'm in Love Again	12
	Let's Misbehave	13
	The Laziest Gal in Town	15
	Weren't We Fools?	17
	Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love	18
	Which?	21
	Wake Up and Dream	23
	Looking at You	24
	What Is This Thing Called Love?	26
	I'm a Gigolo	27
	You Do Something to Me	28
	You've Got That Thing	29
	The Tale of the Oyster	31
	You Don't Know Paree	33
	I'm Unlucky at Gambling	33
	I Worship You	35
	The Queen of Terre Haute	36
	Why Don't We Try Staying Home?	37
	Love For Sale	38
	I Happen to Like New York	40
	After You, Who?	41
	Night and Day	42
	I've Got You on My Mind	43
	Mister and Missus Fitch	44
	The Physician	45
	Miss Otis Regrets	48
	I Get a Kick Out of You	49
	All Through the Night	50
	You're the Top	51
	Anything Goes	57
	Blow, Gabriel, Blow	62
	Thank You So Much, Mrs. Lowsborough-Goodby	63
	Don't Fence Me In	64
	Begin the Beguine	66
	Just One of Those Things	67
	Easy To Love	68
	I've Got You Under My Skin	69
	Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye	70
	Ours	71
	Down in the Depths	73
	It's De-Lovely	74
	Ridin' High	78
	Red, Hot and Blue	81
	In the Still of the Night	83
	At Long Last Love	83
	Get Out of Town	85
	My Heart Belongs to Daddy	86
	I Concentrate on You	88
	But in the Morning, No	89
	Well, Did You Evah!	95
	Katie Went to Haiti	99
	I've Still Got My Health	101
	I'm Throwing a Ball Tonight	104
	Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please	107
	Dream-Dancing	108
	Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye	109
	So Near and Yet So Far	110
	Let's Not Talk About Love	111
	You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To	115
	I Love You	116
	Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye	117
	I Wrote a Play	118
	Be a Clown	121
	Another Op'nin', Another Show	123
	So in Love	124
	I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua	125
	I Hate Men	126
	Were Thine That Special Face	128
	Too Darn Hot	129
	Where Is the Life That Late I Led?	132
	Always True to You in My Fashion	134
	Brush Up Your Shakespeare	137
	Use Your Imagination	140
	I Am Loved	141
	They Couldn't Compare to You	142
	Nobody's Chasing Me	146
	From This Moment On	148
	I Am in Love	149
	It's All Right With Me	151
	Can-Can	152
	Who Said Gay Paree?	154
	I Love Paris	155
	All of You	156
	Stereophonic Sound	156
	Siberia	158
	You're Sensational	160
	Biographical Note	165
	Song Copyrights and Publication Information	166
	Index of Titles	176