| Product Summary | | Label: Emd/chrysalis | | UPC: 00094632179920 | | Release Date: 10/20/1998 | | Buy.com Sku: 60128265 | | Item#: M6MCL3 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 27966 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. I've Got You Under My Skin - Neneh Cherry ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Night & Day - U2 ~ Various Artists | | | 3. You Do Something To Me - Sinead O'Connor ~ Various Artists | | | 4. In The Still Of The Night - The Neville Brothers ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Love For Sale - Fine Young Cannibals ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Don't Fence Me In - David Byrne ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Well Did You Evah!: Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch) / Just One Of Those Things - Deborah Harry/Iggy Pop ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Miss Otis Regrets / Just One Of Those Things - Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues ~ Various Artists | | | 9. I Love Paris - Les Negresses Vertes ~ Various Artists | | | 10. It's All Right With Me - Tom Waits ~ Various Artists | | | 11. I Get A Kick Out Of You - Jungle Brothers ~ Various Artists | | | 12. From This Moment On - Jimmy Sommerville ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Too Darn Hot - Erasure ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? - The Thompson Twins ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Begin The Beguine - Salif Keita ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Down In The Depths - Lisa Stansfield ~ Various Artists | | | 17. After You Who? - Jody Watley ~ Various Artists | | | 18. Do I Love You? - Aztec Camera ~ Various Artists | | | 19. So In Love - K.D. Lang ~ Various Artists | | | 20. Every Time We Say Goodbye - Annie Lennox ~ Various Artists | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | RED HOT BLUE is a tribute to Cole Porter, featuring cover versions of Porter songs performed by contemporary artists. Proceeds from the album benefit AIDS research and relief. | | Produced in 1990 to benefit AIDS research, RED HOT BLUE features contemporary rock, pop, R&B, and electronica artists interpreting the songs of Cole Porter. A closeted homosexual whose lyrics are often provocative and thinly coded and whose tunes are infectious, melancholy, and joyful at once, Porter seems the perfect choice for this benefit album. Nearly every song here has lodged itself in the American songbook, but it is the breadth and variety in the interpretations that make RED HOT BLUE such an interesting collection. | | Neneh Cherry's loose, hip-hop-inflected take on "I've Got You Under My Skin" serves notice that this will not be your ordinary standards album, while U2's pulsing, slightly ominous version of "Night and Day" proves the true malleability of Porter's tunes. The Neville Brothers tropical-flavored "In the Still of the Night" is sheer bliss, as is K.D. Lang's stirring "So In Love." And while Sinead O'Connor plays it fairly straight with "You Do Something To Me," Tom Waits's "It's All Right With Me" and the Jungle Brothers "I Get a Kick Out of You" add variety and spice to the set, which--in addition to being for a good cause--is a thoroughly engaging listen. |
| | Artist Overview | | Responsible for such classics as "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love," and "Anything Goes," Cole Porter is synonymous with both the American songbook and Broadway musical tradition. A prolific composer and lyricist, Porter wrote numerous musicals throughout the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, including CAN-CAN and KISS ME, KATE. His songs represent the epitome of pop wit and sophistication, and have been performed by artists from Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee to the Jungle Brothers and Paul Westerberg. |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 07/23/1996 | | Original Release Date : 1990 | | Catalog ID : 21799 | | Label : Chrysalis Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 77m : 55s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : AAD | | UPC : 00094632179920 |
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