THE COLE PORTER SONGBOOK ARTIST’S NOTE Cole Porter (1891-1964) Arranged by James Burton I Knew Cole Porter Songs Long Before I Knew Who Cole Porter Was

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THE COLE PORTER SONGBOOK ARTIST’S NOTE Cole Porter (1891-1964) Arranged by James Burton I Knew Cole Porter Songs Long Before I Knew Who Cole Porter Was THE COLE PORTER SONGBOOK ARTIST’S NOTE Cole Porter (1891-1964) Arranged by James Burton I knew Cole Porter songs long before I knew who Cole Porter was. My parents met at London University in the swinging sixties and Ella 1 Anything goes [2.53] Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra were their number 2 In the still of the night [3.11] one loves. They still have their records with 3 Mrs Lowsborough-Goodby [2.13] the shillings and pence markings in the corner! 4 What is this thing called love? [2.29] I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t aware 5 You do something to me [3.43] of this music but I first really increased my 6 My heart belongs to Daddy [2.47] knowledge of his vast repertoire when I went 7 I get a kick out of you [3.05] to University and had my own CD player 8 Where would you get your coat? [3.05] 9 It’s de-lovely [2.48] and freedom to spend at HMV! Although the 0 So in love [3.43] subsequent path I took was geared much more q The Physician [3.09] towards opera and the classical world, I have w Miss Otis regrets [2.24] never stopped listening to these wonderful e I’ve got you under my skin [3.11] songs: they are timeless and speak to everybody, r The tale of the oyster [2.57] whatever their background or generation, and t You’d be so nice to come home to [3.18] I love them as much as I love anybody else’s y Night and day [3.41] music. I hope you enjoy our interpretations u Don’t fence me in [3.08] of them and will be encouraged to have a go i True love [2.33] at singing them yourselves! o Brush up your Shakespeare [3.25] p Ev’ry time we say goodbye [2.49] Sarah Fox Total timings: [60.33] SARAH FOX JAMES BURTON www.signumrecords.com - 3 - Sarah and I met when we were teenagers singing (understandable) formality of most classical PROGRAMME NOTE and this, as well as many others are still in choirs, and we have made music of one song recitals, the concert has acquired a looser sung at Yale to this day. Porter wrote sort or another together regularly ever since. feel and we hope to have captured the same Cole Porter wrote a huge number of the songs several musicals while at Yale and although The Cole Porter Songbook idea came about atmosphere on the record. We both hope that you that make up the ‘Great American Songbook’. upon graduating he enrolled at Harvard Law when we needed to fill in a late night concert enjoy singing along with us. His songs marry memorable tunes with clever, School, he soon switched to studying music. at fairly short notice. Sarah and I had been witty rhymes, and are all the more impressive This was kept secret from Porter’s grandfather performing this sort of music together informally We have collected what we think is a given that Porter was one of the few Tin Pan who disapproved of careers in the Arts. Porter for years for friends and family, and this was a representative spread of Porter’s incredibly Alley composers to have written both lyrics and then moved to New York City to pursue a chance to see if it could stand up as a ‘proper’ varied output. Inevitably we perform many of music for his songs. Just one example is the musical career. concert. I’d known a lot of these songs since the most familiar standards, and I have enjoyed brilliant: “This verse I’ve started seems to me / childhood, but during my more classical music the challenge of creating our own versions of The Tin Pantithesis of melody / So to spare In 1915, aged just 24 Porter had his first career I had only periodically had opportunities those well-worn musical paths. But we have you all the pain, I’ll skip the darn thing and Broadway success with a song, “Esmeralda”, to play and sing them. Sarah has sung serious also had the opportunity to include some lesser sing the refrain.” from It’s de-lovely (Track 9). appearing in the revue Hands Up. The quick classical music in some of the world’s leading known numbers which we think stand up Porter was born in Peru, Indiana, to a wealthy success was immediately followed by several opera houses and concert halls. But she has alongside the others, and shed yet more family. His mother provided her maiden name failures; in 1916 his first Broadway production was always performed lighter music too, not least complimentary light on Porter’s outstanding as his first and started Porter in musical a flop, closing after two weeks. Contemporaries appearing alongside Sir Thomas Allen in that talent for combining melody, text and wit. training at an early age. He learned both the George Gershwin and Irving Berlin found success unforgettable MGM musicals BBC Prom with violin (which he did not care for) and the in their early years, but it was not to be for John Wilson in 2009. We recorded the album as we approached the piano. He began composing songs as a child Porter. Dismayed, Porter went to Paris, selling 50th anniversary of Porter’s death in October and dedicated his early efforts to his mother. songs and living off an allowance partly from Over the last three years we have performed 2014, and this seemed a natural moment for Aged just ten, he composed his first operetta. his grandfather and partly from his mother. the Songbook in venues and festivals all over us to celebrate both an incredible song writing Porter’s grandfather J.O. Cole sent him to the UK and we’ve had a terrific response, not talent in Porter, and also to celebrate a musical Worcester Academy in 1905 and then Yale Paris was a place Cole flourished socially least when we invite the audience to join in friendship and collaboration which has been a University beginning in 1909, having decided and he managed to be in the best of all singing some of the songs with us. We’ve constant for Sarah and I for over twenty years. that his grandson ought to be a lawyer. possible worlds. He lied to the American both been pleasantly surprised just how quick press about his military involvement and audiences are to dust off their vocal chords James Burton At Yale Porter sang in the Glee Club and wrote made up stories about working with the and share our renditions of some of the a number of student songs, including the French Foreign Legion and the French army. most well known Porter songs. Given the football fight song “Bingo, That’s The Lingo!”, This allowed him to live his days and nights - 4 - - 5 - as a wealthy American in Paris, a socialite some of Porter’s most brilliant rhymes: “Do Daddy (Track 6) in which the character singing many of his best-known songs. Naturally, the with climbing status, and still be considered a do that voodoo that you do so well.” The is stranded at a Siberian railway station, title number Anything goes (Track 1) is well ‘war hero’ back home, an ‘official’ story he show also features the very amusing, but wearing only a fur coat, and performs a known, but the show features many others encouraged throughout the rest of his life. lesser known Where would you get your striptease while singing the song. Indeed, that exemplify Porter’s enormous skill as a coat? (Track 8) and The tale of the oyster Porter was very proud of the sexual songwriter, All Through the Night, a fantastic In 1918, Porter met Linda Lee Thomas, a wealthy (Track 14). The latter appears to be a sophistication in his show Nymph Errant, also ‘list’ song, You’re the Top, Blow, Gabriel, Blow divorcee. The two were not an obvious match; parody of a Schubert song, perhaps “The Trout.” from the 1930s, which is based on a rather and I get a kick out of you (Track 7). On this she was eight years his senior, and he was The song’s lyrics tell the story of an oyster controversial story concerning a young disc, this song is transformed into a charming gay. Nevertheless, they married the following who, after being consumed by the rich Mrs English lady intent upon losing her virginity. jazz waltz, rather than the usual swinging, year. Linda was always one of Cole’s firmest Hoggenheimer and gliding “to the middle of The song The Physician (Track 11) is from big band orchestrations. supporters and being married increased his her gilded insides”, reemerges and proclaims this show. In this, Porter’s rhymes for chance of success. Together they enjoyed living “I’ve had a taste of society, and society has various anatomical parts are not only very Porter was now established as a huge success the high life and were married until Linda had a taste of me”. The song was cut after clever, but often very funny – as is the constant on Broadway and in Hollywood where he passed away 34 years later. several critics complained about the animal double-entendre. provided scores for many films including Born imagery. A popular revue in 1929; Wake Up to Dance, which featured I’ve got you under Porter continued to write during his time away and Dream included the beautiful What is He said my vertebrae were sehr schöne, my skin (Track 13) and Rosalie which included from Broadway and when he returned in the this thing called love? (Track 4).
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