Edition: Paperback Book, Piano/Vocal/Chords

Description: 260 Pages

This is the first of a two-volume series presenting highlights from the career of Cole Porter. Volume one documents 50 songs from his early career, from 1912 until 1936. The book includes a song-by-song analysis, rare images of original sheet music, informal shots from Porter's scrapbooks, and publicity stills from motion pictures and Broadway.

Titles: Anything Goes, Begin the Beguine, Easy to Love, I Get a Kick Out of You, It's De-Lovely, I've Got You Under My Skin, Just One of Those Things, Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love), Love for Sale, Miss Otis Regrets, Night and Day, What Is This Thing Called Love, You Do Something to Me, and more.

Note: Volume Two, 1937-1958, also available, catalog number 0-33310.

After You, Who? ................................................... Gay Divorce (1932) ..........................................................32
All Through the Night ........................................... Anything Goes (1934) ......................................................36
Anything Goes ..................................................... Anything Goes (1934) ......................................................21
Begin the Beguine ............................................... Jubilee (1935) /
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) ...................................42
Blow, Gabriel, Blow .............................................. Anything Goes (1934) ......................................................49
Buddie, Beware ................................................... Anything Goes (1934) ......................................................56
Dont Look at Me That Way .................................. Paris (1928) ....................................................................62
Down in the Depths
(On the 90th Floor) ........................................... Red, Hot and Blue! (1936) ..............................................66
Easy to Love ........................................................ Born to Dance (1936) ......................................................72
Experiment .......................................................... Nymph Errant (1933) .......................................................76
Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye .......................... O Mistress Mine (1936) ...................................................80
The Great Indoors................................................ The New Yorkers (1930) ...................................................84
How Could We Be Wrong? ................................... Nymph Errant (1933) .......................................................88
Hows Your Romance? ......................................... Gay Divorce (1932) ..........................................................92
I Get a Kick Out of You ........................................ Anything Goes (1934) ......................................................98
I Happen to Like New York ................................... The New Yorkers (1930) .................................................103
Im in Love Again ................................................. Greenwich Village Follies of 1924 (1924) .......................107
Im Unlucky at Gambling ..................................... Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929) ......................................110
Its Bad for Me .................................................... Nymph Errant (1933) .....................................................114
Its De-Lovely....................................................... Red, Hot and Blue! (1936) ............................................118
Ive a Shooting Box in Scotland ........................... See America First (1916) ...............................................124
Ive Got You on My Mind ...................................... Star Dust (1931) / Gay Divorce (1932) .........................130
Ive Got You Under My Skin .................................. Born to Dance (1936) ....................................................134
Just One of Those Things ..................................... Jubilee (1935) ...............................................................140
The Laziest Gal in Town ........................................ Stage Fright (1950) ........................................................146
Lets Do It (Lets Fall in Love) ............................... Paris (1928) ..................................................................151
Lets Misbehave .................................................. (cut.from Paris, 1928) ....................................................156
Longing for Dear Old Broadway ........................... The Pot of Gold (1912) ..................................................160
Looking at You .....................................................Wake Up and Dream (1929) ..........................................163
Love for Sale ....................................................... The New Yorkers (1930) .................................................168
Miss Otis Regrets ................................................ Hi Diddle Diddle (1934) .................................................174
Mister and Missus Fitch ...................................... Gay Divorce (1932) ........................................................177
Night and Day ..................................................... Gay Divorce (1932) ........................................................181
Old-Fashioned Garden ........................................ Hitchy-Koo of 1919 (1919) ............................................186
Ours .................................................................... Red, Hot and Blue! (1936) ............................................191
The Physician ...................................................... Nymph Errant (1933) .....................................................196
Ridin High .......................................................... Red, Hot and Blue! (1936) / High Society (1956) .........201
Take Me Back to Manhattan ................................ The New Yorkers (1930) .................................................206
The Tale of the Oyster .......................................... Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929) ......................................220
They All Fall in Love ............................................. The Battle of Paris (1929) ..............................................215
Wake Up and Dream ...........................................Wake Up and Dream (1929) ..........................................211
Werent We Fools? ............................................... (written for Fanny Brice, 1927) .......................................228
What Is This Thing Called Love? ...........................Wake Up and Dream (1929) ..........................................232
Where Have You Been? ....................................... The New Yorkers (1930) .................................................236
Which? ...............................................................Wake Up and Dream (1929) ..........................................240
Why Shouldnt I? ................................................. Jubilee (1935) ...............................................................244
You Do Something to Me ..................................... Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929) ......................................248
You Dont Know Paree ......................................... Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929) ......................................225
Youre the Top ...................................................... Anything Goes (1934) ....................................................256
Youve Got That Thing ........................................... Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929) ......................................252