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The Very Best Of Cole Porter
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| 99 of 105 people found the following review helpful:  Better than the DE-LOVELY Soundtrack!!, By A Customer This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD) I really can't say it any better than the notes from inside the CD (read below). This is an incredible collection - just look at the artists on here - Ella, Tony Bennett, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong...not to take anything away from the soundtrack to the film, but this is some real starpower!! I listened to the other collections floating around out there, and THE VERY BEST OF COLE PORTER truly lives up to it's name. The amazing thing about Cole Porter is that the most sophisticated of all songwriters is also the most passionate. You wouldn't normally expect those two qualities to go together hand in hand. Indeed, one of the essential components of sophistication is coolness-a blasé quality. The most heinous breach of upper-crusty behavior would be to actually show that you care about something. Yet, Cole Porter takes passion to its ultimate extreme: people in Cole Porter songs are always at the end of their rope, they are borderline obsessives who have the object of... Read more 42 of 44 people found the following review helpful: Sigh of Relief, This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD) What an astronmical composer. I just am completely amazed by how many gorgeous songs Cole Porter wrote through the years. The voices on this cd are perfectly matched to sing these lovely songs. What a great cd. If you saw the movie "De-Lovely" and didn't like the soundtrack (I didn't either) but are enamored by Cole Porter's wonderful music this one is a great find. 29 of 29 people found the following review helpful: wonderful album of Cole Porter tunes, By This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD) The Very Best Of Cole Porter is an excellent CD that has a broad diversity of artists who recorded some of Porter's best known songs. The quality of the sound is rather good and the artwork is very nicely done as well. There's a lot to like on this album. Ella Fitzgerald, The First Lady Of Song, delivers "Too Darn Hot" with lots of positive energy and she makes this tune sound sharp and snazzy. Ella sings and swings brightly to make this tune her own; and indeed I've never heard a better interpretation of this tune than Ella's. Ella Fitzgerald also profits from a musical arrangement that fits in perfectly with her singing--great! Peggy Lee also performs another excellent Porter tune, "My Heart Belongs To Daddy." "My Heart Belongs To Daddy" gets a pure jazz arrangement that you're either going to like or dislike--this is far from the normal delivery of this song and therefore whether of not you like Peggy's version depends on how much you enjoy jazz. There's even Tony... Read more |
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