Compositions By Cole Porter - Notable Songs

Notable Songs

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Shows listed are stage musicals unless otherwise noted. Where the show was later made into a film, the year refers to the stage version. A complete list of Porter's works is in the Library of Congress (see also the Cole Porter Collection).

  • (1916) See America First
  • (1919) Hitchy-Koo of 1919—"Old-Fashioned Garden"
  • (1928) Paris—"Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love"
  • (1929) Wake Up and Dream—"What Is This Thing Called Love?"
  • (1929) Fifty Million Frenchmen—"You Do Something to Me"
  • (1930) The New Yorkers—"Love for Sale", "I Happen to Like New York", "Where Have You Been?"
  • (1932) Gay Divorce—"After You, Who?", "Night and Day" (adapted as The Gay Divorcee, 1934)
  • (1933) Nymph Errant—"Experiment", "The Physician", "It's Bad for Me"
  • (1934) Anything Goes—"All Through the Night", "Anything Goes", "Blow Gabriel, Blow", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "You're the Top"
  • (1934) Adios Argentina (un-produced film)—"Don't Fence Me In"
  • (1935) Jubilee—"Begin the Beguine", "Just One of Those Things"
  • (1936) Red, Hot and Blue—"Down in the Depths (on the Ninetieth Floor)", "It's De-Lovely"
  • (1936) Born to Dance (film)—"You'd Be So Easy to Love", "I've Got You Under My Skin"
  • (1937) Rosalie (film);"In the Still of the Night"
  • (1937) You Never Know—"At Long Last Love", "From Alpha to Omega", "Let's Misbehave"
  • (1938) Leave It to Me!—"From Now On", "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"
  • (1939) Broadway Melody of 1940—"Between You and Me", "I Concentrate on You", "I've Got My Eyes on You", "I Happen to Be in Love", "Begin the Beguine"
  • (1939) Dubarry Was A Lady—"Do I Love You?", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Friendship"
  • (1940) Panama Hattie—"Let's Be Buddies"
  • (1941) You'll Never Get Rich (film)—"Dream Dancing", "So Near and Yet So Far"
  • (1941) Let's Face It!—"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"
  • (1943) Mexican Hayride—"I Love You"
  • (1944) Seven Lively Arts—"Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye"
  • (1946) Around the World—"Look What I Found"
  • (1947) The Pirate (film)—"Be a Clown"
  • (1948) Kiss Me, Kate—"Another Op'nin', Another Show", "Brush Up Your Shakespeare", "I Hate Men", "So in Love", "Tom, Dick or Harry", "Too Darn Hot"
  • (1950) Out of This World—"From This Moment On", "I Am Loved"
  • (1950) Stage Fright (film)—"The Laziest Gal in Town"
  • (1953) Can-Can—"I Am in Love", "I Love Paris", "C'est Magnifique"
  • (1954) Silk Stockings—"All of You", "Paris Loves Lovers"
  • (1955) High Society (film)—"Mind if I Make Love to You?", "True Love", "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", "You're Sensational"
  • (1956) Les Girls—"Ça, C'est L'amour", "You're Just Too, Too"
  • (1958) Aladdin (television)—"Come to the Supermarket (In Old Peking)"

A far more comprehensive list of Cole Porter songs, along with their date of composition and original show, is available online at the "Cole Porter Songlist Page".

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