Disc 2
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. I've Still Got My Health - Ethel Merman ~ Various Artists |  |
| 2. Make It Another Old-Fashioned Please - Ethel Merman ~ Various Artists | |
| 3. Let's Be Buddies - Ethel Merman/Judy Garland ~ Various Artists | |
| 4. Dream Dancing - Fred Astaire ~ Various Artists | |
| 5. Dream Dancing - Dave McKenna ~ Various Artists | |
| 6. So Near And Yet So Far - Fred Astaire ~ Various Artists | |
| 7. Everything I Love - Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra/Lillian Lane ~ Various Artists | |
| 8. Ace In The Hole - Mabel Mercer ~ Various Artists | |
| 9. Let's Not Talk About Love - Danny Kaye/Cole Porter ~ Various Artists | |
| 10. Through Thick And Thin - Hazel Scott ~ Various Artists | |
| 11. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - Barbara Lea ~ Various Artists | |
| 12. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - Ben Webster/Coleman Hawkins ~ Various Artists | |
| 13. By The Mississinewah - Paula Laurence/Betty Garrett ~ Various Artists | |
| 14. Girls - Wilbur Evans ~ Various Artists | |
| 15. I Love You - Sarah Vaughan/Billy Eckstine ~ Various Artists | |
| 16. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Teddy Wilson ~ Various Artists | |
| 17. Only Another Boy And Girl - Benny Goodman Quintet/Jane Harvey ~ Various Artists | |
| 18. Be A Clown - Judy Garland/Gene Kelly ~ Various Artists | |
| 19. Overture-Another Op'nin', Another Show - Annabelle Hill ~ Various Artists | |
| 20. Wunderbar - Jo Stafford/Gordon MacRae ~ Various Artists | |
| 21. So In Love - Robert Merrill/Roberta Peters ~ Various Artists | |
| 22. So In Love - Dick Wellstood ~ Various Artists | |
| 23. I Hate Men - Patricia Morison ~ Various Artists | |
| 24. Where Is The Life That Late I Led? - Alfred Drake ~ Various Artists | |
| 25. Brush Up Your Shakespeare - Harry Clark/Jack Diamond ~ Various Artists | | Disc 3
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Too Darn Hot - Mel Torm? ~ Various Artists | |
| 2. Were Thine That Special Face - Alfred Drake ~ Various Artists | |
| 3. Use Your Imagination - Jo Stafford ~ Various Artists | |
| 4. Cherry Pies Ought To Be You - William Redfield/Barbara Ashley/David Burns/Charlotte Greenwood ~ Various Artists | |
| 5. From This Moment On - Rosemary Clooney ~ Various Artists | |
| 6. From This Moment On - Marian McPartland ~ Various Artists | |
| 7. C'est Magnifique - Cole Porter ~ Various Artists | |
| 8. I Am In Love - Bobby Short ~ Various Artists | |
| 9. It's All Right With Me - Frank Sinatra ~ Various Artists | |
| 10. It's All Right With Me - Erroll Garner ~ Various Artists | |
| 11. I Love Paris - Yank Lawson & His Yankee Clippers ~ Various Artists | |
| 12. Stereophonic Sound - Gretchen Wyler ~ Various Artists | |
| 13. Allez-Vous En - Greta Keller ~ Various Artists | |
| 14. All Of You - Fred Astaire ~ Various Artists | |
| 15. Siberia - Leon Belasco/Henry Lascoe/David Opatoshu ~ Various Artists | |
| 16. Ca C'est L'Amour - Taina Elg ~ Various Artists | |
| 17. High Society Calypso - Louis Armstrong ~ Various Artists | |
| 18. I Love You, Samantha - King's Singers ~ Various Artists | |
| 19. True Love - Bing Crosby/Grace Kelly ~ Various Artists | |
| 20. You're Sensational - Frank Sinatra ~ Various Artists | |
| 21. You're Sensational - Ruby Braff ~ Various Artists | |
| 22. Now You Has Jazz - Bing Crosby/Louis Armstrong ~ Various Artists | |
| 23. Well, Did You Evah - Bing Crosby/Frank Sinatra ~ Various Artists | |
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| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Includes a 100 page booklet. | | Tributee: Cole Porter. | | Liner Note Authors: Robert Kimball; Dick Sudhalter. | | Arriving a year late for the songwriter's centenary, the Indiana Historical Society's 1992 box set You're the Top: Cole Porter in the 1930s carried no hint of a follow-up. But seven years later came this combination prequel and sequel, another three-CD/cassette collection that, like its predecessor, carries more than a whiff of idiosyncratic academia. With a first disc devoted to Porter's work of the 1910s and '20s (the title notwithstanding), and two more given over to the '40s and '50s, it takes the same approach, proceeding (more or less) chronologically by the dates of the songs' composition, but ranging back and forth across decades in terms of the sequence of recordings. Thus, it leads off with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire's 1975 recording of the 1914 copyright "I've a Shooting Box in Scotland," followed by Olive Kline's contemporary recording of the 1919 song "Old Fashioned Garden," and then Porter's own 1934 take on "Two Little Babes in the Wood," from 1924. Since Porter's songs generally are better remembered than the shows and films from which they came, a mere listener is likely to find the result aurally confusing. It is necessary to seriously peruse the 158-page, 9 x 12 booklet, with its discursive essays, to appreciate the album's organization. The producers have tracked down some interesting material that has not been issued legitimately before, particularly a couple of onstage recordings of Ethel Merman in Panama Hattie, and that is indicative of the taste for the arcane they display, which also leads them to include partial performances of some songs and ten jazz instrumentals (usually following vocal versions of the same songs). There are omissions (notably "Always True to You in My Fashion") and questionable choices, but the Porter scholar will appreciate the oddities. The Porter neophyte should look elsewhere, however. ~ William Ruhlmann |
Producer: Robert Kimball (Compilation); Dick Sudhalter (Compilation); Susan Elliot (Compilation) |
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| Technical Info |
| Release Date : 10/19/1999 | | Original Release Date : 1999 | | Catalog ID : 7400 | | Label : Koch Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 3 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Mixed | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00099923740025 |
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