You're The Top: Cole Porter In The 1930s - Cole Porter Centennial Collection

Cole Porter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 3, 1993)
• Original Release Date: April 7, 1992
• Number of Discs: 3
• Label: Koch Int'l Classics
• ASIN: B000001SF9
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #227,010 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. I'm Getting Myself Ready for You

2. Where Have You Been?

3. Let's Fly Away

4. I Happen to Like New York

5. Love for Sale

6. Love for Sale

7. Let's Step Out

8. After You, Who?

9. After You, Who?

10. I've Got You on My Mind

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Anything Goes

2. I Get a Kick Out of You

3. All Through the Night

4. Blow, Gabriel, Blow

5. You're the Top

6. You're the Top

7. Miss Otis Regrets

8. Miss Otis Regrets

9. Don't Fence Me In

10. Don't Fence Me In

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Collector's Item, March 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: You're The Top: Cole Porter In The 1930s - Cole Porter Centennial Collection (Audio CD)

This triple CD is a wonderful compilation of Cole Porter's songs, a MUST for any collector of Cole Porter's music. The producers have been brilliant in compiling variations of songs done throughout the years and one can compare the original songs rendered by Cole Porter himself or Ethel Merman among others in its original version and then go for the more modern sophisticated versions with better sound equipment. The comparisons are often delightful and undoubtedly ingenious. I highly recommend it.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREATEST COLE PORTER COLLECTION EVER!!!_A classy, witty, joyous, wonderfully rich piece of American history, November 3, 2006

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C. P. Wilson (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You're The Top: Cole Porter In The 1930s - Cole Porter Centennial Collection (Audio CD)

Professionally and lovingly compiled by The Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings (HSR) and The Indiana Historcal Society, this box set is PHENOMENAL!!!(probably the nicest I will ever have the pleasure of owning..if I could give it 10 STARS out of a possible 5 I would)!!! First of all it includes 3 CD's (69 recordings/songs), 1 BRILLIANT BOOK (Cole Porter History, songs, performers, disography, etc), all enclosed in a wonderfully padded box decorated with the cover art of never-surpassed Broadway artist/caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld. Second, it encompasses the very hard to find recordings of Cole Porters sassy songs of the 1930's; the decade that he broke onto and redefined Broadway. Third, you get to enjoy several different takes of 1 CP song performed by perhaps the best artists of all time, the likes of which include Judy Garland, Louis Armstrong, Teddi King, Lee Wiley, Billie Holiday, Mabel Mercer, Bill Evans, Sylvia Syms, Bobby Short, Fred Astaire, Artie Shaw, Rosemary Clooney, Benny Goodman Orchestra, Ethel Merman, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald,Tony Martin, James Stewart (yes! Jimmy Stewart sings), Lena Horne, and of course the man himself: COLE PORTER (and countless others). Not only will you have one of the best collections of Cole Porter's music but will also be introduced to the wonderful voices and jazzy styles of some artists you may have never been exposed to before-and I guarantee that this collecton will inspire you to go out and find their own recordigns too. Fourth, all the songs are organized under the subtitle of each 1930's CP Broadway musical for which it was written (i.e.The New Yorkers(1930), The Gay Divorce(32), Nymph Erant(33), Anything Goes(34), Miscellaneous Song(34), Adios Argentina(34), Jubilee (35), Born To Dance(36), Red, Hot, and Blue (36), Rosalie(37), You Never Know(38), The Sun Never Sets (38), Leave it To Me (38), The Man Who Came To Dinner (39), Broadway Melody of 1940 (39),Du Barry Was A Lady (39) -Finally, (as if this isn't enough) there is a FANTASTIC/VERY INFORMATIVE/TREASURE of a book enclosed in this 3-CD set that includes a wonderful history of Cole Porter, a break down of each song and (both it's own history as well as the very interesting stories of the peformers who sing it), an irreplacable CP Discography, and INCREDIBLE BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOS seen throughout! Can I get any better than this? What are you waiting for. BUY IT and demand they re-release this collection. In the meantime, if your debating spending the extra cash for this now OOP collection, I can assure you-IT'S TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!