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I feel sad now. I had a bit of banter with Binos, and then a telling off for being snobbish. I played on that some more.
What was missing was a link which I have a particular reason for wanting to hear again.
I mentioned AdBlock was stopping the link but now, the button which I used to control the program with is not there anymore. I've tried to menu it off, but still a blank page.
"Too Darn Hot" was written by Cole Porter for the musical "Kiss Me Kate". This sizzling rendition is performed by the delightful Ann Miller in the film version:
I saw her (and Mickey Rooney) in the 1980's in the Savoy Theatre in London, in the burlesque "Sugar Babies". She was still beautiful then, with legs 'up to here', and dancing like a dream ...
Oh, let's have the incomparable Eartha Kitt singing that little masterpiece by Cole Porter, with her perfect enunciation of the witty lyrics (and her characteristic air of self-mocking innocent sexiness!):
One of the first LPs I bought was 'Ella Fitzgerald sings Cole Porter', I was a, hopelessly in love, 20 yr old at the time and mooned about singing along with Ella. Love all Cole Porter's songs...this one of my favourites
goudie: One of the first LPs I bought was 'Ella Fitzgerald sings Cole Porter'
Was that the Music For Pleasure one? Still got it somewhere, along with an MFP album of Nat King Cole singing/playing with his trio, no orchestration. Brilliant.
'Don't Fence Me In" - that was Cole Porter, wasn't it?
Yes it was, reynoldsno1, and it was brand new in 1944 when sung by 'the singing cowboy' Roy Rogers in the film Hollywood Canteen. Clint Eastwood he wasn't, and I'm a bit embarrassed to confess that he was a boyhood hero of mine in his numerous movies with his wife Dale Evans. Back then, all of the good guys wore white hats, so you always knew where you were with them ...
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Got to be "You're the Top", with better lyrics (only just) than "Let's Do It".
How can you beat:
"You're the top! You're Mahatma Gandhi. You're the top! You're Napoleon Brandy. You're the purple light Of a summer night in Spain, You're the National Gallery You're Garbo's salary, You're cellophane"
or
"You're a rose, You're Inferno's Dante, You're the nose On the great Durante."
Sorry goudie, didn't calculate. MFP would not have been around then, it was the cheapo brand which was sold in Woolworths and the like. Mostly rubbish, some gems
