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Some of the cleverest, funniest, and most romantic songs ever written came from the pen of Cole Porter. He was the greatest American bon vivant of his day. He traveled the world, knew all manner of nobility, was a fixture of club life in Paris and New York, and roosted at the top of the musical world for 30 years.

Porter broke from the simple sentimentality that dominated Tin Pan Alley. His urbane wit and playful style in lyrics and music will never find a challenger. He lived life and music with style, with energy, and a hearty appreciation for the subtle, the grandiose, the lively, and the silly.

The Café Carlyle presents Bobby Short:
Love Songs of Cole Porter.

Cole Porter's songs have long enjoyed a special place in Bobby Short's repertoire, but this set of love song has a special luster. Short is the ultimate cabaret singer; his art is timeless rather than nostalgic. He seems to live inside Porter's world, with its archly comic sophistication, its ambiguities, and its suddenly pointed insights. Above all, he is able to find the subtle emotional tones that these love songs require to be fully realized, the celebratory with hints of losses past and to come, the wistful knowledge that experience must be seized to be savored. (Compact Disc)

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Lost Cole Porter Tune.
According to Baraby Conrad III, the Martini is a cocktail distilled from the wink of a platinum blonde, the sweat of a polo horse, the blast of an ocean liner's horn, the Chrysler building at sunset, and a lost Cole Porter tune. It's a nostalgic passport to another era -- when a stainless steel shaker transformed vodka or gin into America’s most famous cocktail. CLICK HERE for more information.

Cole and Noel
The dapper Noel Coward was Porter's soul-mate. Both wrote prolifically and enjoyed Broadway and international acclaim. Both relished in the high life, eventually traveling in the same social circles in America and abroad, and hobnobbing with the same interesting, elegant, and talented people. Noel Coward mementos. CLICK HERE for more information.