PERFORMANCE: Cole Porter, Bobby Short

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"You've got what Adam craved

when he with love for Eve was tortured
She only had an apple tree, 

but you, you've got an orchard... "

 

There is only one Cole Porter.

Don't look now, but this song is nearly 100 years old.

Verse after verse, he just won't stop.

Four years after the tune above, Porter wrote You're the Top.

"Updated" many times thru the decades, Porter sings the orginal genius lyric, below...

 

Bobby Short specialized in little-known Cole Porter songs for three decades at New York city's Cafe Carlyle. Anybody here ever see Mabel Mercer?

Clips: You've Got That Thing - Bobby Short ( song 1929 )

           You're the Top - Cole Porter   ( song 1934 )