The World of Cole Porter, Jerome Kern & William Ketelby / What is This Thing Called Love, True Love, Night & Day, I Love Paris / 2 Disc Audio 1998 / ZYX 11119-2

UPC 090204652822

MADE IN GERMANY

Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn to musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike many successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote the lyrics as well as the music for his songs.

After a serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and '30s, but in 1948 he made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, Kiss Me, Kate. It won the first Tony Award for Best Musical.

Porter's other musicals include Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady, Anything Goes, Can-Can and Silk Stockings. His numerous hit songs include "Night and Day", "Begin the Beguine", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and "You're the Top". He also composed scores for films from the 1930s to the 1950s, including Born to Dance (1936), which featured the song "You'd Be So Easy to Love"; Rosalie (1937), which featured "In the Still of the Night"; High Society (1956), which included "True Love"; and Les Girls (1957).

Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "The Song Is You", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", "Long Ago (and Far Away)" and "Who?". He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and Yip Harburg.

A native New Yorker, Kern created dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films in a career that lasted for more than four decades. His musical innovations, such as 4/4 dance rhythms and the employment of syncopation and jazz progressions, built on, rather than rejected, earlier musical theatre tradition. He and his collaborators also employed his melodies to further the action or develop characterization to a greater extent than in the other musicals of his day, creating the model for later musicals. Although dozens of Kern's musicals and musical films were hits, only Show Boat is now regularly revived. Songs from his other shows, however, are still frequently performed and adapted. Many of Kern's songs have been adapted by jazz musicians to become standard tunes.

Tracklist:

CD1:

Cole Porter:

1. Begin The Beguine   3:14

2. What Is This Thing Called Love   1:06

3. I've Got You Under My Skin   2:10

4. So In Love  2:10

5. Wunderbar   1:08

6. Easy To Love   1:11

7. My Heart Belongs To Daddy   2:24

8. In The Still Of The Night   2:04

9. C'est magnifique    1:28

10. I Love Paris    1:45

11. True Love   1:12

12. The New Pacific Orchestra   Night And Day   1:59

13. Eugen Cicero   What Is This Thing Called Love  5:35

14. Hurbie Man Just  One Of Those Things    3:57

15. Ella Fitzgerald  Night And Day    2:18

16. Orchester Claudius Alzner  True Love   3:01

17. Zarah Eander  Wunderbar   2:41

18. Marylin Monroe  My Heart Belongs To Daddy   5:05

CD2:

Jerome Kern:

1.Ol' Man River (1:45)

2.They Didn't Believe Me (1:54)

3.Long Ago And Far Away (1:31)

4.The Way You Look Tonight (2:12)

5.Fine Romance (1:56)

6.Yesterdays (1:52)

7.Make Believe (1:33)

8.Lovely To Look At (1:57)

9.Smoke Get's In Your Eyes (1:21)

10.Can't Help Loving You (2:22)

11.Why Do I Love You (1:50)

12.All The Things You Are (1:31)

William Ketelby:

13.Auf Einem Persischen Markt (6:13)

14.Glocken uber Der Heide (3:45)

15.In Einem Klostergarten (5:30)

16.An Den Blauen Hawaii-Wassern (7:20)

17.In Einem Chinesischen Tempelgarten (4:55)

18.Im Mystischen Land agypten (5:45)