Cole Porter
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Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, Porter defied his grandfather's wishes for him to practice law and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn to musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike many successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote the lyrics as well as the music for his songs.
After a serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and 1930s, but in 1948 he made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, ''Kiss Me, Kate''. It won the first Tony Award for Best Musical.
Porter's other musicals include ''Fifty Million Frenchmen'', ''DuBarry Was a Lady'', ''Anything Goes'', ''Can-Can'' and ''Silk Stockings''. His numerous hit songs include "Night and Day", "Begin the Beguine", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and "You're the Top". He also composed scores for films from the 1930s to the 1950s, including ''Born to Dance'' (1936), which featured the song "You'd Be So Easy to Love"; ''Rosalie'' (1937), which featured "In the Still of the Night"; ''High Society'' (1956), which included "True Love"; and ''Les Girls'' (1957). Provided by Wikipedia
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Anything goes. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Vocal selections from Anything goes : piano-vocal / music and lyrics by Cole Porter. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Kiss me, Kate. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Music and lyrics by Cole Porter : a treasury of Cole Porter / with an introduction by Robert Kimball ; [book designed and edited by Lee Snider]. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Can-can : vocal selection / words and music by Cole Porter. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Born to dance / music composed by Cole Porter. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Broadway melody of 1940 : original sound track recording / music composed by Cole Porter. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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The Cole Porter song book : the complete words and music of forty of Cole Porter's best-loved songs / [foreword by Moss Hart ; illustrations by Robert J. Lee ; arrangements by Albert Sirmay]. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Anything goes. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Anything goes Guy Bolton. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Can-can : motion picture sound track / Cole Porter. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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The letters of Cole Porter / Cliff Eisen & Dominic McHugh. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Magic moments from Cole Porter's Can-can ; Magic moments from Irving Berlin's Call me madam. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Cole / Edited by Robert Kimball. A biographical essay by Brendan Gill. Designed by Bea Feitler. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Porter on Broadway : voice, piano / [words and music by Cole Porter]. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Vocal selections from Gay divorce / [words and music by Cole Porter]. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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High society : vocal selections / [music and lyrics by Cole Porter]. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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The best of Cole Porter. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Feuer and Martin present Cole Porter's Can-can / book and direction by Abe Burrows ; settings and lighting by Jo Mielziner ; costumes by Motley ; musical direction by Milton Rosenstock ; orchestrations by Philip J. Lang ; dance music arranged by Genevieve Pitot. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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Kiss me, Kate / music and lyrics by Cole Porter ; book by Sam and Bella Spewack, based on William Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew ; vocal score ; piano reduction by Robert H. Noeltner. by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
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