Cole Sings Porter: Rare and Unreleased Songs from Can-Can and Jubilee

Cole Porter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 23, 1994)
• Original Release Date: December 5, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Koch Int'l Classics
• ASIN: B000001SFU
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Track Listings

1. Maidens Typical of France

2. Never Give Anything Away

3. C'est Magnifique

4. Live and Let Live

5. I Am in Love

6. Montmart'

7. I Love Paris

8. Can-Can

9. The Law

10. Her Heart Was in Her Work

11. What a Fair Thing Is a Woman

12. I Do

13. Who Said Gay Paree?

14. Entrance of Eric

15. The Kling-Kling Bird on the Divi-Divi Tree

16. When Love Comes Your Way

17. What a Nice Municipal Park

18. When Me, Mowgli, Love

19. A Picture of Me Without You

20. Everybody Who's Anybodee

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cole sings Porter, June 9, 2003

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cole Sings Porter: Rare and Unreleased Songs from Can-Can and Jubilee (Audio CD)

This CD features demos of songs from two Cole Porter shows. They feature Cole Porter himself singing and playing piano with no other instruments. The sound quality is not great, but it is listenable. It sounds like scratchy old records, which it is actually what it was recorded from. Cole sings his songs in a effete voice, he is a decent but unexciting singer. The only well known song here is "I Love Paris", which is from Can-Can. The rest of the songs from Can-Can feature Cole's usual clever wordplay. There are also five songs that were written for Can-Can, but didn't make it into the show. The songs from Jubilee don't include the biggest hit from the show, "Begin the Beguine". The Jubilee songs aren't as clever as the the Can-Can songs, but they are still better than most songs by other songwriters. I would recommend this CD for hardcore Cole Porter fans only. There are better recordings of these songs by better singers with better orchestration.

4.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Cole Porter Recording, August 29, 2011

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Anon. (Brooklyn, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cole Sings Porter: Rare and Unreleased Songs from Can-Can and Jubilee (Audio CD)

This CD features demo recordings of Cole Porter singing his own songs and accompanying himself on piano. His distinctive and somewhat nasal voice has much more character than a typical music theater singer. I have a box set of Cole Porter songs by other singers, but I never listen to it; it's just not as interesting or intimate as these renditions by the composer himself.