Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks (the band backing Mr. Porter on this track) can be heard every Monday and Tuesday evenings at Sofia’s Restaurant (downstairs / Club Cache) at 221 W. 46th St. between 8th Ave and Broadway, (ph 212-719-5799), adjacent to the Hotel Edison in Times Square NYC.
OMYGOSH get over the whole 'today's music' banter! remember music is all opinion based, no one can say; this is rubbish, they can say i don't like this though. COOL
I love looking these songs up and just belting them out alone in my room. My senior year of HS we sang a HUGE collection of Cole Porter in show choir, and I got sick after we had an impromptu rehearsal on the marching band bus the Saturday before the concert and I couldn't sing it OR Evita. BUT THEN MY TEACHER SAID WE'D BE PERFORMING IT AROUND TOWN AND I DIED. I love Cole Porter. My favorite were this song, Let's Do It and my duet on Easy To Love.
I heard this song while playing Bioshock but I couldn't hear it because some pesky Splicers needed blasting and the phonograph in game got shot by accident so I couldn't hear the rest. So I come here and I am able to hear the whole song. I'm glad to say that this was worth the search. I love this old style music. What year did Cole Porter record this?
COLE PORTER ES UNA DE MIS COMPOSITORES FAVORITOS. YO CRECÍ CON SU MÚSICA, PUES MI MAMÁ ES PIANISTA Y ME ENSEÑÓ MÚSICA DE LOS 20´S/3O´S/40´S, ETC. Y DESDE NIÑA EN MÉXICO, ESCUCHÉ TODA ESA MÚSICA. Y POR SUPUESTO COLE PORTER ES DE LOS CONSENTIDOS Y ME ENSEÑÓ A CONOCER LA MÚSICA DE LAS GRANDES BANDAS NORTEAMERICANAS, SIMULTÁNEAMENTE COMPOSITORES LATINOAMERICANOS, MEXICANOS, CUBANOS, ETC. Y LOS GRANDES DE LA MÚSICA CLÁSICA. BUENO DE TODO TIPO DE MÚSICA. Y COLE PORTER OCUPA UN LUGAR ESPECIAL.
@rleimbach1 NO TE ENTIENDO CON ESO DE "CAPS MUCH?"... PERO ME ENCANTA ESTA MÚSICA Y CRECÍ CON ELLA, AUNQUE NO ES DE MI ÉPOCA, JA,JA,JA LA MÚSICA ES LA MÚSICA AUNQUE NO ENTENDAMOS EL IDIOMA. SALUDOS
@Marymarmol ''Cole Porter est un de mes comproseurs préférés'' after that i can't translate more XD,apres ca je suis pas capable de traduire plus XD hello lol
@TheDrunkenKhajiit SALUDOS DESDE MÉXICO Y ES MUY EMOCIONANTE QUE LA MÚSICA SEA UNO DE LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN MÁS EFECTIVOS Y UNIVERSALES. ¡MMM! SINCE I WAS CHILD I LISTENED ALL THE MUSIC IN MY HOUSE, I LISTENED MUSIC OF ALL DECADES AND I LOVE MUSIC. "THE GREAT BANDS OF NORTHAMERICA" ARE VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME BY MY MOTHER WHO IS A PIANIST AND COLE PORTER IS WONDERFUL! (EXCUSE ME MY ENGLISH, ITS DIFFICULT FOR ME AND MY FRENCH IS BASIC, MUCH BASIC).
@Enoxization You word your posts like this just to fuck with people, don't you? Don't think I'm posting this out of anger or frustration, I salute you for your seemingly deeper understanding of philosophy. What we perceive as "real" is just a basis for our minds to organize the world around us and make things more manageable. Humans are suckers for organization, even if they may contest that fact.
what makes this so funny is that very few upper middle class people had any idea what bottoms and tops were in 1934 and so they loved a song that would have outraged them if they understood its meaning. But the true irony is that their innocence allowed them to love a great song
I'm kind of bothered by how so many people talk about how music today sucks, because i don't think it does. In fact, there is a much greater variation of music today than there was back then, so try listening to other things. Don't get me wrong, i love old music, thats why i'm here; it's just that i can't help but picture people being nostalgic of music they weren't alive to hear when it was popular XD. This is good music though, cole porter was a genius.
@LemurMan2008 I agree with you. There are those that complain how Rap "has changed and not as good as the original"! haha
There was less music and even fewer artists avbailable to the public when this was published. With the advent of Youtube there are more choices but I must say that the selection of artists were held to a higher standard "way back when". Wether that is good or bad is just an observation.
@LemurMan2008 I agree 100%. I am 13 and obviously love artists like Adele, Lady Gaga and Pitbull, but I'm also enthralled with classical composers like Mozart and Paganini. I love every band from ABBA to The Beatles, from Cole Porter and Michael Jackson to Abney Park and fripSide... the list goes on and on! Geez, just check out my odd/good music playlist if you want more examples. O_o Anyway, I love all music and hope to keep hearing good music as time goes on. :)
Yeah this music is old-fashioned, I mean, doesn't work today anymore IMHO because of the lyrics makes reference of poeple who are already dead more than 50 years ago but it's nice, I like it very much! ;)
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks can be heard every Monday and Tuesday evenings at Sofia’s Restaurant (downstairs / Club Cache) at 221 W. 46th St. between 8th Ave and Broadway, (ph 212-719-5799), adjacent to the Hotel Edison in Times Square NYC.
Desde niño me gustaron varias canciones de Cole Porter sin saber que eran de él y sin entender la letra. Lo estoy haciendo ahora a los 76 años. ¿Alguien me puede dar la partitura de In the still of the night?
His written words can be true, and more better than impossible things like that music "Grenade" where he said he'd catch a grenade, throw is hand on the blade, I doubt that, but these lyrics are really meaningful.
My very, very favorite Cole Porter song, ever. And nearly every item named in the song retains a degree of greatness or legend. And his voice is surprisingly good, though Porter isn't necessarily known for his singing. I always smile when I hear this particular version.
Surprising to hear the master himself sing, and quite well actually, disproving the common misconception that Cole Porter's voice was unequal to his songwriting talent.
@RATCRAB I think his vocal style makes the whole sentiment behind the song seem more real-- it's totally more endearing than it would be had it had the hell polished out of it!
nice discussions, flawless music and the thing that hits you ppl below me in the face is a depression glooming from human emotions finding happiness everywhere, the call of old days for me :) sentimental shiet i kno
I just think the lyrics are really clever. Porter is pulling rhymes from everywhere...from all over. From Fred Astaire to Bach, to the steppes of Russia...to a Roxie usher. It's just so evocative of the era...and all linked together by the composer's admiration for a woman. Well, maybe that should tell us something...how love, admiration, romance, and respect link everything together. For Porter, the love of a woman makes everything alive...an idea as old...and as new...as human history itself.
@duckman531: Artists like Porter, as you well know, were the counter force to these monsters. Joke if you want, but the mass murders of the age, looked down on the living arts as"soft" and "weak" expressions of culture. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films for example, were banned in Germany and in Italy...because of their pull on the human heart and the human imagination. The dictators didn't want this kind of competition. It reminded "the masses" in their nations of their common humanity.
If the mass murderers of the age, as you so accurately phrase it, looked down on the arts, than why did Porter chose to immortalize Mussolini? In the early 1900's many artists and intellectuals looked at the totalitarianism of a Mussolini or a Hitler or a Stalin and saw, to paraphrase H.G.Wells, a future that worked. Geniuses like Porter gave the world great art, but when they left their field of expertise, followthefleet1, THEY COULD BE WRONG.
@duckman531: Oh, I agree they COULD be wrong. Dalton Trumbo...and the many actors who defended his right of free speech...never accepted that he really was a communist, who condemned writers who fought for free speech within the CPUSA. I just didn't know that Porter was one of them. I thought that Porter was a Republican and quite conservative. Is this not true? I wasn't aware that he "immortalized Mussolini". If that was his purpose, then he indeed was wrong.
"Imortalized" is just a figure of speech, followthefleet1. My point is that totalitarianism in the early 1900's was a fad, as frightening as that sounds to us today, and artists like, Trumbo, Wells, and to a much lesser extent, Porter, bought into it to various degrees. I'm not saying artists like Porter or James Cagney were in any way fascist or communist, just that they followed the crowd without regard for common sense.
@duckman531: I think in the heated atmosphere of the McCarthy era, both sides went over the top. Kate Hepburn's, "I am a communist" speech is a case in point. Was Kate a commie? Was she willing to commit her salary to "share and share alike". I don't think so somehow. In general, I agree that too many in Hollywood were more than a little obtuse on international matters...and much sharper on matters that affected them directly...like freedom of speech. We honor them as artists not as politicians.
My point exactly, followthefleet1! I'm sure you understand my object was not to discredit Porter, but merely to bring to light the climate of the times.
There are various recordings for this song. I believe that this recording is used in the video game Bioshock, and features an orchestra, while a version used in "Cole Porter: A Centennial Celebration" only has his singing and piano playing.
@Brandished ya dude this is the version from bioshock.... and ya i know that because ive beat bioshock way too many times... thats why im watching this actualy lol
Funny story, during his life time, he didn't record too much, when he did they were mainly meant as demos for other artists. It wasn't until the 70's or so that some guys wrote orchestra parts around the demos and recorded them on top of the original recordings. I don't know if that's how it was for this one, but you can really hear it on the cut of 'anything goes' where the new instruments have much better frequency response than the original vocals and piano
@ImGodOfCanada the reason why they cant make music like this because the population has been dumbed down and think that being smart is an insult and that lyrics about anything other then sex drugs and violence is stupid i am 15 and a majority of people my age think this way , it saddens me.
@Furetgarcon: Yes, but you do not have to be that way! People with the competing messages are the ones they end-up calling "trend setters" or "forward thinkers". This kind of music is a national treasure, and it is wonderful for us older folks (35+) to see a 15 y/o enjoying it! Explore the genre -- you won't be disappointed!
@ImGodOfCanada He was good, but there's obviously a finite number of clever melodic progressions available, and between Porter, Kern, Berlin, and Hammerstein, all of them were used up prior to 1960.
here for glee xD
pauligatos 2 days ago
You're the top - Cole Porter
Tonight I'm fucking you - Enrique Iglacias
It's funny how music as moved to. Isn't it interesting?
mybuttlookslikeurfac 4 days ago
I´m here cause of BioShock... and this is how a videogame teaches me about good ol´ music.
MrGhostbusters213 6 days ago 3
I have nothing against new music. Just the fact that this type of music has become so forgotten.
XxFugufishXx 2 weeks ago
you're cellophane
issurchaim 2 weeks ago
that must be a big dictionary / thesaurus on the piano behind his head.
simhopp 2 weeks ago
nowadays we say cole was potent
RIPNickSurette 2 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Cole Porter
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ChuckieAnvil 4 weeks ago 6
remember when songs used to have more than one word in them?
PeeteyP 4 weeks ago 7
i can already picture sugar singing this to artie though.
margheritapuca 1 month ago 2
@margheritapuca That would be cute, but I really hope it's rachel's dads.
Acp3100 1 month ago
this makes me want to watch looney tunes
njduran 1 month ago
This man is worthy of Ovid.
skimdit 1 month ago
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Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks (the band backing Mr. Porter on this track) can be heard every Monday and Tuesday evenings at Sofia’s Restaurant (downstairs / Club Cache) at 221 W. 46th St. between 8th Ave and Broadway, (ph 212-719-5799), adjacent to the Hotel Edison in Times Square NYC.
bixlives 2 months ago
Thanks for posting Cole Porter singing one of his own songs. While no one can deny the genius in the music, Porter's greatest gift was clever lyrics.
Arkelk2010 2 months ago
Definitely one of his best "list" songs.
saintjacques101 2 months ago
cole porter, your the top.
meowzhappyface 2 months ago 4
OMYGOSH get over the whole 'today's music' banter! remember music is all opinion based, no one can say; this is rubbish, they can say i don't like this though. COOL
lizziegsack 2 months ago
myteacher showed this to us in our 21st centure skills class. XD
shimashamane 3 months ago
Totaly here because of Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka:)
AinysDorMent 3 months ago 3
@AinysDorMent me too :D
Irina6969 3 months ago
Rapture i love you
onceone96 3 months ago 3
words are so witty..........
mjkierans 4 months ago
I love looking these songs up and just belting them out alone in my room. My senior year of HS we sang a HUGE collection of Cole Porter in show choir, and I got sick after we had an impromptu rehearsal on the marching band bus the Saturday before the concert and I couldn't sing it OR Evita. BUT THEN MY TEACHER SAID WE'D BE PERFORMING IT AROUND TOWN AND I DIED. I love Cole Porter. My favorite were this song, Let's Do It and my duet on Easy To Love.
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promotenext 4 months ago
I heard this song while playing Bioshock but I couldn't hear it because some pesky Splicers needed blasting and the phonograph in game got shot by accident so I couldn't hear the rest. So I come here and I am able to hear the whole song. I'm glad to say that this was worth the search. I love this old style music. What year did Cole Porter record this?
TheStarToursTraveler 4 months ago
@TheStarToursTraveler
It's from the 1934 musical Anything Goes :)
kongost1 4 months ago
@kongost1 Ah thanks.
TheStarToursTraveler 4 months ago
COLE PORTER ES UNA DE MIS COMPOSITORES FAVORITOS. YO CRECÍ CON SU MÚSICA, PUES MI MAMÁ ES PIANISTA Y ME ENSEÑÓ MÚSICA DE LOS 20´S/3O´S/40´S, ETC. Y DESDE NIÑA EN MÉXICO, ESCUCHÉ TODA ESA MÚSICA. Y POR SUPUESTO COLE PORTER ES DE LOS CONSENTIDOS Y ME ENSEÑÓ A CONOCER LA MÚSICA DE LAS GRANDES BANDAS NORTEAMERICANAS, SIMULTÁNEAMENTE COMPOSITORES LATINOAMERICANOS, MEXICANOS, CUBANOS, ETC. Y LOS GRANDES DE LA MÚSICA CLÁSICA. BUENO DE TODO TIPO DE MÚSICA. Y COLE PORTER OCUPA UN LUGAR ESPECIAL.
Marymarmol 5 months ago
@Marymarmol Caps much?
rleimbach1 5 months ago
@rleimbach1 NO TE ENTIENDO CON ESO DE "CAPS MUCH?"... PERO ME ENCANTA ESTA MÚSICA Y CRECÍ CON ELLA, AUNQUE NO ES DE MI ÉPOCA, JA,JA,JA LA MÚSICA ES LA MÚSICA AUNQUE NO ENTENDAMOS EL IDIOMA. SALUDOS
Marymarmol 5 months ago
@Marymarmol
Es que quites las mayúsculas de tu teclado.. . no se fijan en lo que escribe la gente sino la forma, tal vez no sepan leer bien jeje.
andibonnington 4 months ago
@Marymarmol ''Cole Porter est un de mes comproseurs préférés'' after that i can't translate more XD,apres ca je suis pas capable de traduire plus XD hello lol
TheDrunkenKhajiit 5 months ago
@TheDrunkenKhajiit SALUDOS DESDE MÉXICO Y ES MUY EMOCIONANTE QUE LA MÚSICA SEA UNO DE LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN MÁS EFECTIVOS Y UNIVERSALES. ¡MMM! SINCE I WAS CHILD I LISTENED ALL THE MUSIC IN MY HOUSE, I LISTENED MUSIC OF ALL DECADES AND I LOVE MUSIC. "THE GREAT BANDS OF NORTHAMERICA" ARE VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME BY MY MOTHER WHO IS A PIANIST AND COLE PORTER IS WONDERFUL! (EXCUSE ME MY ENGLISH, ITS DIFFICULT FOR ME AND MY FRENCH IS BASIC, MUCH BASIC).
Marymarmol 5 months ago
your the nile your the tower of pizza your the smile on the mona lisa..
....and if baby Im the bottom your the top!
gominnowgo 5 months ago
@gominnowgo "tower of Pisa" but a tower of pizza would be nice too ^_^
RETRONAUTA 5 months ago
I feel sad that I didn't know this song until I played bioshock. Thank you toasty for teaching me about how amazing this song is.
KaryuBunny 5 months ago
cole porter is my hero
peaceandlove206 6 months ago in playlist chiiil 2
Bioshock!
This song is in the world of Rapture, the undersea distopian city.
calimar28 6 months ago 2
I'm laughing at this song only because I have a dirty mind lol. Good song though!
solidiquis1 6 months ago in playlist Roaring 20s Playlist
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vanessaShittyful 6 months ago in playlist vanessaShittyful's Favorited Videos
@solidiquis1 Since Cole was gay, I'm he was quite aware of its double entrendre.
grypnhmr 4 months ago
@grypnhmr Since I went though the trouble of having to look up "entendre" in the dictionary, I might as well inform you that you misspelled it.
solidiquis1 4 months ago
@SinclairDelux ~It lacks the fat bass and rap that the youngsters are drawn too. No mention of guns and whores also doesn't help.
gards2 6 months ago
I play this song so loud in my car with the windows down that my trunk vibrates
IloveMIT8923 6 months ago
I'm seeing him in concert this Thursday, thumbs up if you are excited for it too!
IloveMIT8923 7 months ago 4
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cepomwa 7 months ago
@cepomwa Cole Porter (it was a joke...a joke that you ruined...)
IloveMIT8923 7 months ago
@IloveMIT8923 happy?
cepomwa 7 months ago
@cepomwa ...No, I still feel empty inside...
IloveMIT8923 7 months ago
@Enoxization You word your posts like this just to fuck with people, don't you? Don't think I'm posting this out of anger or frustration, I salute you for your seemingly deeper understanding of philosophy. What we perceive as "real" is just a basis for our minds to organize the world around us and make things more manageable. Humans are suckers for organization, even if they may contest that fact.
Fanatic4500 7 months ago
what makes this so funny is that very few upper middle class people had any idea what bottoms and tops were in 1934 and so they loved a song that would have outraged them if they understood its meaning. But the true irony is that their innocence allowed them to love a great song
brazoboy86 8 months ago
I just discovered Cole Porter, and I love him! One day, my kids and grandkids will listen to him. His legacy must live on! <3
TheBeatles193 8 months ago
This is so funny to listen to.... But I still probably have more respect for Cole Porter than alot of people...
cfronck 8 months ago
"You're the top!
You're an Arrow collar.
You're the top!
You're a Coolidge dollar."
FoPo4 8 months ago
So you're the bottom?
deadcrowes19 8 months ago
From which album is this version?
piezeox 9 months ago
If no-one changed the names in this song, every singer would still be singing about Mussolini..
sigurpe 9 months ago
Not a single Bioshock reference?
mrbobmanbob 10 months ago
I'm kind of bothered by how so many people talk about how music today sucks, because i don't think it does. In fact, there is a much greater variation of music today than there was back then, so try listening to other things. Don't get me wrong, i love old music, thats why i'm here; it's just that i can't help but picture people being nostalgic of music they weren't alive to hear when it was popular XD. This is good music though, cole porter was a genius.
LemurMan2008 10 months ago 26
@LemurMan2008 I agree with you. There are those that complain how Rap "has changed and not as good as the original"! haha
There was less music and even fewer artists avbailable to the public when this was published. With the advent of Youtube there are more choices but I must say that the selection of artists were held to a higher standard "way back when". Wether that is good or bad is just an observation.
SouthernWasp 3 months ago
@LemurMan2008 I agree 100%. I am 13 and obviously love artists like Adele, Lady Gaga and Pitbull, but I'm also enthralled with classical composers like Mozart and Paganini. I love every band from ABBA to The Beatles, from Cole Porter and Michael Jackson to Abney Park and fripSide... the list goes on and on! Geez, just check out my odd/good music playlist if you want more examples. O_o Anyway, I love all music and hope to keep hearing good music as time goes on. :)
KauKatKay 1 month ago in playlist Odd Music/Good Music
@LemurMan2008 I like this song but I like sutton Fostero's version better than CP
NegativeNick 1 month ago
Yeah this music is old-fashioned, I mean, doesn't work today anymore IMHO because of the lyrics makes reference of poeple who are already dead more than 50 years ago but it's nice, I like it very much! ;)
rtms1988 10 months ago
@rtms1988 You should be aware there are singers today who change the names used in the original lyric to include contemporary personalities ...
drxl44 9 months ago
First time I heard at 1:21 I thought it said "you are my hat, my candy" and I was like "what the hell?"
ivan345doom 11 months ago
this song isnt as good as anything goes
bandanaboy98 1 year ago
This song is really amazing. Wasn't this used for the 2008 remake of Easy Virtue?
Steffitjeuh 1 year ago
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks can be heard every Monday and Tuesday evenings at Sofia’s Restaurant (downstairs / Club Cache) at 221 W. 46th St. between 8th Ave and Broadway, (ph 212-719-5799), adjacent to the Hotel Edison in Times Square NYC.
bixlives 1 year ago
Desde niño me gustaron varias canciones de Cole Porter sin saber que eran de él y sin entender la letra. Lo estoy haciendo ahora a los 76 años. ¿Alguien me puede dar la partitura de In the still of the night?
bernardoregal 1 year ago
People who complain about today's music are more annoying than those they complain against.
I don't like most modern music but by god subjectivity and abstraction are the foundation of art.
KeanuIIDAMAN 1 year ago 58
@KeanuIIDAMAN While, I agree to an extent, people have good reason to complain that most popular music is utter crap nowadays.
SamTheToyRobot 6 months ago
@KeanuIIDAMAN hahaahahaha, somebody finally gets it!!!!!! kudos!
deserteagle421 1 month ago
His written words can be true, and more better than impossible things like that music "Grenade" where he said he'd catch a grenade, throw is hand on the blade, I doubt that, but these lyrics are really meaningful.
CoolMeSelf001 1 year ago
omg :D I found this version again! :D finally! Thank You for uploading! :D
BeatlesSydBarrett9 1 year ago
1 person is not the National Gallery or Garbo's salary.
Relbodnegoh 1 year ago
It's sad to see a musical genius like Cole to be forgotten by the nuisance of today's lyrics and sound.
XtrmMcjohnson 1 year ago 5
@XtrmMcjohnson
I plan upon passing on my musical tastes to my children. :P
iscrewy 1 year ago
✮✮✮✮✮
Magnifique
LylythTV 1 year ago 2
This is sercond of my Cole Porter favorites, my favorite is Anything Goes.
CoolMeSelf001 1 year ago
Interesting to hear how English he sounds!
lesterwyoung 1 year ago
My very, very favorite Cole Porter song, ever. And nearly every item named in the song retains a degree of greatness or legend. And his voice is surprisingly good, though Porter isn't necessarily known for his singing. I always smile when I hear this particular version.
delightfulstar 1 year ago
Surprising to hear the master himself sing, and quite well actually, disproving the common misconception that Cole Porter's voice was unequal to his songwriting talent.
bscottb8 1 year ago
This song was in bioshock 1 but just for a sec. Great song!
zandyman96 1 year ago
@zandyman96 it was actualy in there at one point where one of the splicers were singing it and then at the mercury suites part it played.
thebioshockguy1 1 year ago
My father loved Cole Porter.
Thank you for posting this.
GeorgeVreelandHill 1 year ago
I love how his notes go up and down, which is my favorite way to hear music. This song is everything that I like.
EvilSwordProductions 1 year ago
lmao cole porter is so far from pathetic at words poetic
ugottheblues 1 year ago
@RATCRAB I think his vocal style makes the whole sentiment behind the song seem more real-- it's totally more endearing than it would be had it had the hell polished out of it!
pulpfresh 1 year ago
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This is gay...thank god Lennon and McCartney came along...
BenDover6910 1 year ago
@BenDover6910 A. This song rocks and B. FUCK YOU MOTHERFUCKER
roflmao826 1 year ago
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@roflmao826 fuck you asshole..this is gay and so r u
BenDover6910 1 year ago
@BenDover6910 Lol you really have to come on to a song you dont like and bash people that like the song and the song itself get a life.
roflmao826 1 year ago
@BenDover6910 actually your the fag considering you username is bend over you cunt
Munky360 1 year ago
@BenDover6910 you think this is gay? you are a sad sad little man if your even a man.
thebioshockguy1 1 year ago
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@BenDover6910 fuck you
fontenayperi 1 year ago
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@fontenayperi
fuck u too
BenDover6910 1 year ago
@BenDover6910 Then fuck off and go masturbate over Justin Bieber
McGarvinStudios 1 year ago
Absolutely wonderful song, and this is my favorite recording of it.
everybodylovesmybaby 1 year ago
This is a great song!
zandyman96 1 year ago
wonderful
11CCG 1 year ago
Can't say he was as great a singer as he was a songwriter, but this is a lot of fun nonetheless. Does anyone know when this recording was made?
wilus1969 1 year ago
I downloaded a pack of I00 78RPM songs and this one was the first song on there. Haha, so great.
Planetaryy 1 year ago
Just terrific :D It's rare and wonderful to hear this great composer performing his own work. Thanks for posting.
sookietex 1 year ago
One of the greatest talents of the 20th century...
johnhenryhohandle 1 year ago
what is this song about exactly?...
Xavenous 1 year ago
@Xavenous It's an extravagant compliment.
harveyardman 1 year ago
@Xavenous
In the play this song was in, a man and a woman sang it back and forth.
iscrewy 11 months ago
This is the nicest song to be sung while lying in a park ever.
stevennaumovski 2 years ago
nice discussions, flawless music and the thing that hits you ppl below me in the face is a depression glooming from human emotions finding happiness everywhere, the call of old days for me :) sentimental shiet i kno
Deltar2r 2 years ago
I just think the lyrics are really clever. Porter is pulling rhymes from everywhere...from all over. From Fred Astaire to Bach, to the steppes of Russia...to a Roxie usher. It's just so evocative of the era...and all linked together by the composer's admiration for a woman. Well, maybe that should tell us something...how love, admiration, romance, and respect link everything together. For Porter, the love of a woman makes everything alive...an idea as old...and as new...as human history itself.
followthefleet1 2 years ago
I heard this on Bio shock the best part of that game is the soundtrack
sarsgarrs 2 years ago
"You're the top! You're Mussolini!"
Wait, Cole, better not.
"You're the top! You're Joseph Stalin!"
Ah, Cole, maybe try something else.
"You're the top! You're Adolph Hit..."
Cole!!!!! Stop it!!!!!!!
duckman531 2 years ago 2
Haha very good that made me laugh lol
Artist3303 2 years ago
@duckman531: Artists like Porter, as you well know, were the counter force to these monsters. Joke if you want, but the mass murders of the age, looked down on the living arts as"soft" and "weak" expressions of culture. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films for example, were banned in Germany and in Italy...because of their pull on the human heart and the human imagination. The dictators didn't want this kind of competition. It reminded "the masses" in their nations of their common humanity.
followthefleet1 2 years ago
If the mass murderers of the age, as you so accurately phrase it, looked down on the arts, than why did Porter chose to immortalize Mussolini? In the early 1900's many artists and intellectuals looked at the totalitarianism of a Mussolini or a Hitler or a Stalin and saw, to paraphrase H.G.Wells, a future that worked. Geniuses like Porter gave the world great art, but when they left their field of expertise, followthefleet1, THEY COULD BE WRONG.
duckman531 2 years ago
@duckman531: Oh, I agree they COULD be wrong. Dalton Trumbo...and the many actors who defended his right of free speech...never accepted that he really was a communist, who condemned writers who fought for free speech within the CPUSA. I just didn't know that Porter was one of them. I thought that Porter was a Republican and quite conservative. Is this not true? I wasn't aware that he "immortalized Mussolini". If that was his purpose, then he indeed was wrong.
followthefleet1 2 years ago
"Imortalized" is just a figure of speech, followthefleet1. My point is that totalitarianism in the early 1900's was a fad, as frightening as that sounds to us today, and artists like, Trumbo, Wells, and to a much lesser extent, Porter, bought into it to various degrees. I'm not saying artists like Porter or James Cagney were in any way fascist or communist, just that they followed the crowd without regard for common sense.
duckman531 2 years ago
@duckman531: I think in the heated atmosphere of the McCarthy era, both sides went over the top. Kate Hepburn's, "I am a communist" speech is a case in point. Was Kate a commie? Was she willing to commit her salary to "share and share alike". I don't think so somehow. In general, I agree that too many in Hollywood were more than a little obtuse on international matters...and much sharper on matters that affected them directly...like freedom of speech. We honor them as artists not as politicians.
followthefleet1 2 years ago
My point exactly, followthefleet1! I'm sure you understand my object was not to discredit Porter, but merely to bring to light the climate of the times.
duckman531 2 years ago
O.K. Agreed.
followthefleet1 2 years ago
@followthefleet1: "We honor them as artists, not politicians."
Enough said.
dougd1015 2 years ago
You know how to talk text book, not history.
dougd1015 2 years ago
@dougd1015 Please explain further.
duckman531 2 years ago
This is probably my single favorite song ever.
Great, clever lyrics from a wonderful man who was very conservative and real jewel even in his time.
dougd1015 2 years ago
There are various recordings for this song. I believe that this recording is used in the video game Bioshock, and features an orchestra, while a version used in "Cole Porter: A Centennial Celebration" only has his singing and piano playing.
Brandished 2 years ago 6
@Brandished ya dude this is the version from bioshock.... and ya i know that because ive beat bioshock way too many times... thats why im watching this actualy lol
darkriku2464 1 year ago
@Brandished
Funny story, during his life time, he didn't record too much, when he did they were mainly meant as demos for other artists. It wasn't until the 70's or so that some guys wrote orchestra parts around the demos and recorded them on top of the original recordings. I don't know if that's how it was for this one, but you can really hear it on the cut of 'anything goes' where the new instruments have much better frequency response than the original vocals and piano
SavedbyJaco 1 year ago
@Brandished The irony is that I found out about how good Bioshock is because of Cole Porter.
inukirby992 7 months ago
Indeed he was.
It's rather funny, I have this song, but for some reason i cannot hear the orchestration. only his voice and the piano
thewhoppinator 2 years ago
Why can't they make music like this anymore?
Cole Porter was too good!
ImGodOfCanada 2 years ago 76
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dougd1015 2 years ago
The music today sucks!
I even saw a video of Jewel "trying" to do her version of Anything Goes... it was an Abomination!
ImGodOfCanada 2 years ago 41
Just don't........don't even tell me.
That's even worse that Jessie McCartney singing Blackbird.
dougd1015 2 years ago
It's rather painful, isn't it?
iambecomedeath7 2 years ago
@ImGodOfCanada i watched that and when i heard the music my heart sank and when i heard Times have changed
And, we've often rewound the clock it felt like somebody just stabbed me! It HURT! it actually Hurt!
Furetgarcon 2 years ago
@ImGodOfCanada That cover made me want to throw a small dog at her.
xFalloutVids 1 year ago
@ImGodOfCanada You can say that gain. We havent the writers and we havent the singers.
It is all very depressing, do yopu live in the states, or the uk ?
imonthebox 9 months ago 2
Because some who could care not to and many others can't :(
TankGun1944 2 years ago
@ImGodOfCanada the reason why they cant make music like this because the population has been dumbed down and think that being smart is an insult and that lyrics about anything other then sex drugs and violence is stupid i am 15 and a majority of people my age think this way , it saddens me.
Furetgarcon 2 years ago 3
@Furetgarcon: Yes, but you do not have to be that way! People with the competing messages are the ones they end-up calling "trend setters" or "forward thinkers". This kind of music is a national treasure, and it is wonderful for us older folks (35+) to see a 15 y/o enjoying it! Explore the genre -- you won't be disappointed!
johnhenryhohandle 1 year ago 2
@ImGodOfCanada He was good, but there's obviously a finite number of clever melodic progressions available, and between Porter, Kern, Berlin, and Hammerstein, all of them were used up prior to 1960.
madamerotten 1 year ago
@ImGodOfCanada you said the reason..he was too good!
Gilraen1000 1 year ago
evolution
ESDiaz64 1 year ago