The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks [Box set]

Frank Sinatra, Cole Porter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 19, 1993)
• Original Release Date: October 19, 1993
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000046RM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126,782 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. Love for Sale

3. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)

4. Anything Goes

5. What Is This Thing Called Love?

6. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To

7. At Long Last Love

8. I Love You

9. Just One of Those Things

10. It's De-Lovely

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. I Get a Kick Out of You

2. My Heart Belongs to Daddy

3. I've Got You Under My Skin [Live]

4. After You, Who?

5. So in Love

6. Too Darn Hot

7. Just One of Those Things

8. Get Out of Town

9. Love for Sale

10. From This Moment On

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ignore the one star reviewers, December 18, 2001

By 

michael mccarthy (Sweltering Central Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks (Audio CD)

First off, this is a 'Verve' jazz box set of Cole Porter tunes. Verve. The jazz label. Which means the box probably has jazz tunes on it. Right? Jazz renditions of Porter tunes. Now use that brain folks, God didn't put it there to keep the wind from making a whistling sound through your head... if you want original Porter tunes done pre-1940 in that scratchy 78 revolutions sound stay far away from this compilation (try the excellent 'You're The Top: Cole Porter In The 1930s' box instead). Classic Verve jazz fanatics know what they will find on this set, beautiful renditions of Cole Porter standards by 'jazz' (there's that jazz word again) greats. Renditions. Not tinny Artie Shaw recordings (don't get me wrong, I love Artie Shaw too) off of wax cylinders. Look at the listings, Louie Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Clifford Brown, Roland Kirk... no Frank or Dean or Tony BECAUSE they didn't record for Verve. It's a 'Verve' box set. And what you get is an extraordinary collection of jazz performances of Porter tunes.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars On the contrary..., June 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks (Audio CD)

While I can appreciate the opinions of the other reviewers I just had to write and disagree. Maybe I'm just not as much of a purist as the others, but it seems to me that music should be reinvented from time to time. It's what keeps it alive and vital.

The performances and performers on this CD are top-rate. It was in fact this collection of such talent that introduced me to Porter in the first place and I'm grateful to it's makers. Since first listening to it a few years ago I've developed more of a taste for thirties style musical numbers, but some of these tracks are still my favorite takes on his music.

I will agree that this collection will appeal to you more if you like jazz. If you do though, you can't go wrong with the material that these fine artists have worked with.

50 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is not for Cole Porter fans. It is for Jazz fans., November 7, 1999

By 

Gregory Bryan (Baltimore, Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks (Audio CD)

Be careful before you purchase this CD. If you enjoy Cole Porter because of the creative tempos, the mix of rythmns and lyrics, the way that words play together, and the great melodies - then this is not your CD. The musicians are jazz specialists who see a tune only as the base for them to express their own attitudes, and they destroy Cole Porter by employing their own tempos and melodies and inserting long segments of instrument skill demonstrations that have nothing to do with the song. If you like Jazz, it's probably decent. If you like Cole Porter, don't waste your money.