(earlier) today was Cole Porter's birthday

[fflo]

He'd have been 117 this year.

His super-clever stuff with the lyrics is well and good---rarely is there weller or gooder that way---but I'm gonna plink up this one we just about all know, which is not a flashy wordy one, but a great lyric. It's one of those just perfect songs, and he does amazing stuff in these words, ever so quietly, simply.

Every time we say goodbye
I die a little
Every time we say goodbye
I wonder why a little
Why the gods above me
who must be in the know
think so little of me
they allow you to go

When you're near there's such an air
of Spring about it
I can hear a lark somewhere
begin to sing about it
There is no love song finer
but how strange the change
from major to minor
every time we say goodbye

Comments

[madush69.livejournal.com]

A Cole Porter fan!! Have you heard "John Barrowman Swings Cole Porter?"

It is one of my favorite CDs.

It has:
1. Just One Of Those Things
2. What Is This Thing Called Love
3. In The Still Of The Night
4. I Happen To Like New York
5. Anything Goes
6. After You, Who?
7. Ca C'est l'Amour
8. Don't Fence Me In
9. Miss Otis Regrets
10. Do I Love You?
11. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
12. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
13. It's Alright With Me
14. Easy To Love

Barrowman easily has the most beautiful male voice I've ever heard. The way he sings these songs is breathtaking. His "Anything Goes" is pure joy.
His "Miss Otis Regrets" will make your eyes get wet.

If you haven't got this disc yet, order it. If you end up wanting more, another great disc by John Barrowman is "Reflections from Broadway."
Barrowman also does a splendid version of "Night & Day" with Kevin Kline in DeLovely.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Now that's an enthusiastic recommendation! I'll check him out.

I was a Gershwin(s) gal first, truth be told. My gateway drug to what we call old standards.

[madush69.livejournal.com]

Cathy loves him too. There are tons of clips and songs on YouTube. check him out.