Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (9 Juni 1891 – 15 Oktober 1964 ) adalah seorang pencipta lagu dari AS, dilahirkan di Peru , Indiana . Beberapa karyanya yang terkenal adalah musical Kiss Me, Kate (1948 ) (didasarkan pada The Taming of the Shrew ), Fifty Million Frenchmen , dan Anything Goes .
Ia belajar main biola pada usia 6 tahun, piano pada usia 8 tahun, dan menulis operetta pertamanya (dibantu ibunya) pada usia 10 tahun. Porter kemudian bersekolah di Worcester Academy , Yale University , dan lantas Harvard Law School untuk menjadi pengacara, tetapi kemudian pindah ke jurusan seni musik.
Daftar lagu terkenal
(1916) See America First
(1919) Hitchy Koo Of 1919 — "An Old Fashioned Garden"
(1929) Wake Up And Dream — "What Is This Thing Called Love? "
(1929) Fifty Million Frenchmen — "You Do Something To Me "
(1933) Nymph Errant — "Experiment," "The Physician," "It's Bad For Me"
(1936) Red, Hot and Blue — "It's De-Lovely "
(1937) You Never Know — "At Long Last Love ," "From Alpha To Omega"
(1938) Leave It to Me! — "From Now On," "My Heart Belongs to Daddy "
(1940) Panama Hattie — "Let's Be Buddies," "Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please"
(1941) Let's Face It — "Everything I Love ," "I Hate You, Darling"
(1942) Something for the Boys — "Could It Be You"
(1942) Something To Shout About — "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To "
(1944) Seven Lively Arts — "Every Time We Say Goodbye "
(1946) Around the World in Eighty Days — "Look What I Found"
(1947) The Pirate — "Be a Clown "
(1948) Kiss Me, Kate — "Another Op'nin', Another Show," "Brush Up Your Shakespeare," "I Hate Men," "So In Love ," "Too Darn Hot "
(1954) Silk Stockings — "All Of You ," "Paris Loves Lovers"
(1956) Les Girls — "Ca, C'est L'amour ," "You're Just Too, Too"
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