It’s De-Lovely!: The Music of Cole Porter

RELEASE
February 04, 2008
LABEL
Pierian
GENRES
Easy Listening, Instrumental Pop

Album Review

There are a lot of Cole Porter collections on the market. Pierian's 2008 release It's De-Lovely! The Music of Cole Porter is a somewhat unusual addition to the pack in that it consists of remastered and newly realized player piano roll arrangements of Cole Porter compositions. The original rolls, dating from the years 1920-1940, are credited to 11 different performers. Foremost among these, quantitatively at least, are Adam Carroll and Frank Milne, with Paul Whiteman's arranger and composer-in-his-own-right Ferde Grofe spooling one of this collection's two versions of "I'm in Love Again"; Marshall Bartholomew knocking up a medley of Porter's early Yale ditties and Robert Joyce receiving the "oldest roll" award with his 1920 interpretation of "An Old-Fashioned Garden" from the stage show Hitchy-Koo. Since there are no vocalists, listeners are free to obtain sheet music and howl along with these charming old parlor piano rolls.
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Track Listing

  1. It's De-Lovely
  2. I Get a Kick out of You
  3. You Do Something to Me
  4. What Is This Thing Called Love
  5. Night & Day
  6. From Now On/Get out of Town
  7. You've Got Something
  8. Rosalie/Who Knows
  9. When Love Comes Your Way/Me and Marie
  10. Swingin' the Jinx Away
  11. Easy to Love/I've Got You Under My Skin
  12. You're the Top
  13. Do I Love You/When Love Beckons
  14. Four Selections from "Panama Hattie": Fresh as a Daisy/Let's Be Buddies
  15. Four Selections from "Nymph Errant": How Could We Be Wrong?/The Physici
  16. I'm in Love Again
  17. I'm in Love Again
  18. Let's Do It
  19. An Old-Fashioned Garden
  20. Yale Medley: Bull Dog/Bingo Eli Yale