KWXY Presents ● The Life Story of Cole Porter (Part 4)

Cole Porter Collection 1912-1957, Music Division, Library of Congress / Photo Cole Porter 1930s

Cole Porter was an American musical theater composer and songwriter. His life, his songs, and compositions live on in Amercian music culture and entertainment. A number of tributes and movies have covered his life.

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story, a video of archival material and interviews, and Red, Hot and Blue, a video of artists performing Porter's music, were released in 1990 to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Porter's birth.

In contrast to the highly embellished 1946 screen biography Night and Day, Porter's life was chronicled more realistically in De-Lovely, a 2004 Irwin Winkler film starring Kevin Kline as Porter and Ashley Judd as Linda Lee Thomas. The soundtrack to De-Lovely includes Cole Porter songs sung by Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall and Natalie Cole, among others.

Porter also appears as a character in Woody Allen's 2011 film Midnight in Paris.

“The Life Story of Cole Porter” was originally produced by Wink Martindale during his days at Gene Autry's KMPC in Los Angeles.

Listen to Part 4 of “The Life Story of Cole Porter,” today at 1pm on The Wink Martindale Show on KWXY Music Radio 92.3FM ● 1340AM ● streaming at kwxy.com and ivoxradio.com