I owe Cole Porter an apology. I no longer think it’s true that anyone with a pitch pipe and a rhyming dictionary could write his songs. While he still isn’t my favorite, I do think he was a great American songwriter. The problem is his musicals. They’re all terrible. But, as has been pointed out to me, I really should give him leeway there, because musical theater didn’t really exist back in his day. Pretty much every musical was a revue flimsily tied together with some stupid jokes. It was decades before
The Best (and Only Types of) Cole Porter Songs
The Best (and Only Types of) Cole Porter…
The Best (and Only Types of) Cole Porter Songs
I owe Cole Porter an apology. I no longer think it’s true that anyone with a pitch pipe and a rhyming dictionary could write his songs. While he still isn’t my favorite, I do think he was a great American songwriter. The problem is his musicals. They’re all terrible. But, as has been pointed out to me, I really should give him leeway there, because musical theater didn’t really exist back in his day. Pretty much every musical was a revue flimsily tied together with some stupid jokes. It was decades before