Until now, the American Songbook selections I’ve shared have something in common: they are the result of collaborations between a composer and a lyricist. But in this regard, Cole Porter was unlike most of the Tin Pan Alley songwriters with whom he associated, because he wrote both the lyrics and the music for all of his songs. Like many of the compos…
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