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Cole Porter
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American composer and songwriter (1891–1964)
OverviewAI-generated
Cole Albert Porter (1891–1964) was an American playwright, composer, pianist, and lyricist. Born in Peru, Indiana, he died of kidney failure in Santa Monica. Porter was educated at Yale University, Harvard University, Harvard Law School, and the Schola Cantorum de Paris, where he studied under Vincent d'Indy and Pietro Yon. His musical works, including the notable piece "Night and Day," are associated with the musical, jazz, and swing genres.
Porter received several honors, including the Grammy Trustees Award, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Tony Award for Best Original Score, and the Tony Award for Best Musical. His recorded output includes albums such as *Ella Fitzgerald sings the Cole Porter songbook* and *Cole Porter Piano Solos*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1891
- Died
- 1964
- Works
- 73
Top works
- B.G. De Sylva presents Ethel Merman in Panama Hattie
- Ella Fitzgerald sings the Cole Porter songbook
- Out of this world
- Cole Porter Piano Solos
- Lee Evans Arranges More Cole Porter
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Sound · Peru, Indiana, USA
Known for
- Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)2018
- Public Speaking — Self (archive footage)2011
- De-Lovely — Musical Performer - "You're The Top"2004
- 20th Century Greats — Self (archive footage)2004
- Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine2003
- Cole Porter in Hollywood: Ça c'est l'amour — Self (archive footage)2003
- Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk — Self (archive footage)2003
- You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story — Self (archive footage)1990
- The Ed Sullivan Show — Self1948
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1891
- Active to
- 1964
Discography
- Anything Goes / Two Little Babes in the Wood1934
- Kiss Me, Kate1949
- Silk Stockings1955
- High Society1956
- Aladdin1958
- Can-Can1960
- Anything Goes1962
- Anything Goes1962
- Kiss Me Kate (1963 Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre Cast)1963
- The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter1965
Member of
- The Whiffenpoofs1913–1913
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 252,618
- Total plays
- 1,688,723
Tags
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter from Indiana. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate (1948) (based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew), Fifty Million Frenchmen and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "I've Got You Under My Skin". He was noted for his sophisticated (sometimes ribald) lyrics, clever rhymes, and complex forms. He was one of the greatest half-dozen contrib
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,934x
- Naïve Bayesian Classifier for Rapid Assignment of rRNA Sequences into the New Bacterial Taxonomy
· 2007 · cited 17,950x
- Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation
· 2010 · cited 13,971x
- Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey
· 2000 · cited 11,362x
- TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions
· 2013 · cited 11,182x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love? Just who can solve this mystery? Why should it make a fool of me?”
- “If you want to buy my wares Follow me and climb the stairs … Love for sale.”
- “There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.”
- “Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in”
- “I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in”
- “What moments divine, what rapture serene.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Cole Porter, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Porter in the 1930s Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in Hollywood films.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cole Porter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.