Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a snob on the half-shell could only have been dredged by a greatly gifted hand. Yet Cole Porter's Tale of the Oyster has never been published. Nor, until now, has it ever been recorded. It is only remembered by those Broadway theatergoers who, in 1929, happened to see Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen...
...this month any record buyer can savor it in a new album called "Cole Porter Revisited." It has been assembled by Ben Bagley, an off-Broadway producer (the Shoestring revues) who has unearthed eleven Porter songs that have been hitherto unrecorded, plus three recorded only on now-unavailable 78 r.p.m. Some were cut from shows while they were still on the road. Others were never published at all, or if they were, the lyrics were often changed. In all cases, Bagley has revived the originals. One song from 1939's DuBarry Was a Lady, for example, illustrates just what...
...songs are timeless Porter but, even so, some of them are as datable as coins. I'm Throwing a Ball Tonight, for example, was first sung in 1940's Panama Hattie, by Ethel Merman...
...Bagley has already issued a similar collection of artifacts from Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. After Cole Porter, he plans to revisit Noel Coward and Jerome Kern. He has two recondite versions of Kern's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, which was an early failure, having begun its existence, startlingly enough, as a military march called I'm Marching Off to War. Bagley also has some high-powered Coward, most notably an item called Carrie Was a Careful Girl, which is, of all things, a ballad about contraceptives...
...artists of the Hamptons form anything but a school. Alexander Brook still paints tender nudes from life, works in a former stable in the old whaling town of Sag Harbor, and putts around in his Model T and 1935 Rolls-Royce. Realists such as Fairfield Porter, Paul Georges and Moses Soyer live within a short drive of Abstractionists Ludwig Sander, Corrado Marca-Relli and James Brooks. Even New Yorker Cartoonists Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg find the region warmly inclusive...