Bobby Short Loves Cole Porter/Guess Who's in Town (2001) more music like this

by Bobby Short

Collectables Records' two-fer release of Bobby Short's 1971 tribute album to Cole Porter and his 1987 tribute album to Andy Razaf provides an interesting comparison between the two songwriters who wrote during the same period in similar styles. Porter (1891-1964), the child of wealth, was the musical voice of sophistication on Broadway from the ...

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Sings the Songs of George & Ira Gershwin & Cole Porter (1939) more music like this

by Lee Wiley

Lee Wiley was the first jazz singer to record a full album (eight songs in the '78' days) dedicated to the music of one composer; her "songbooks" preceded Ella Fitzgerald's by more than 15 years. The greatest recordings of her career were these four projects, the first two of which are on this Audiophile reissue. Wiley, who had an introverted and ...

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Bobby Short Loves Cole Porter (1972) more music like this

by Bobby Short

In a sense, Bobby Short was only doing what he'd been doing for decades when he recorded a double LP of Cole Porter songs in 1971. But somehow, the reaction was different. The album actually spent a couple of months in the pop charts in the late winter and early spring of 1972, and its comparative commercial success "made me think for a moment ...

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Bobby, Noel & Cole (...Loves Cole Porter/...Is Mad About Noel Coward) (1990) more music like this

by Bobby Short

Great pairing of material from pair of two-record sets devoted to Noel Coward and Cole Porter. Brilliant performances. Ron Wynn, All Music Guide

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Wake Up and Dream (2002) more music like this

by Various Artists

In 1992, the Indiana Historical Society marked native son Cole Porter's centenary a year late by issuing the box set You're the Top: Cole Porter in the 1930s. The organization followed in 1999 with another box that surveyed the rest of Porter's career, You're Sensational: Cole Porter in the '20s, '40s & '50s. In 2002, the three discs from that ...

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Collectables Classics [Box Set] (2006) more music like this

by Bobby Short

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Cocktail Hour (2001) more music like this

by Lee Wiley

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52nd Street: Street of Jazz (1998) more music like this

by Various Artists

The locale in New York City where swing met bop, 52nd Street was littered with clubs that might have Art Tatum on one side and Charlie Parker on the other on any given night during the '40s. Charly celebrates the diversity with a hefty 44 tracks spread out over two discs. In addition to big band sides from Count Basie, Woody Herman, and Charlie ...

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