Composer and lyricist,
Cole Porter
crafted the most “swellegant, elegant
” standards of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, including “You're the Top,
” “Night and Day,
” and “I've Got You Under My Skin.
” According to music historian David Ewen, he “was the cynic whose love was often for sale; who could be true to you only in his fashion; to whom that seemingly crushing love affair was just one of those things...