Still the top.Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter Noun 1. Cole Porter - United States composer and lyricist of musical comedies (1891-1946) Cole Albert Porter, Porter * Various Artists * Shout! Factory Shout! Factory is an entertainment company founded in 2003 and which was started by Richard Foos (co-founder of Rhino Records), Bob Emmer (former Warner Music Group and Rhino executive) and Garson Foos (former Rhino executive). Since most of today's hottest new bands are retreads of the sounds of the '80s, and the ongoing AIDS crisis shows no signs of abating, the DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. debut of the 1990 Cole Porter tribute (and AIDS benefit) album Red Hot + Blue is as timely as can be. And while viewers new to this collection might find Richard Gere's achingly earnest introduction to be a bit dated, the music and the videos--the reissue is being released as a twin CDDVD pack--remain fresh, vital, and exciting. Featuring a mix of the still-hot (U2, Annie Lennox Annie Lennox (born Ann Lennox on 25 December 1954) is a Scottish musician and vocalist. She is both a solo artist and the lead singer of the duo Eurythmics, called "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" on the VH1 show 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll 1999. , k.d. lang), the no-longer-with-us (RIP Kirsty MacColl Kirsty Anna MacColl (10 October, 1959 – 18 December, 2000) was a British singer-songwriter. Life and career Kirsty MacColl was the daughter of dancer Jean Newlove and folk singer Ewan MacColl, and she and her brother Hamish MacColl grew up in Croydon. ), and the career-dead (come back, Neneh Cherry, we miss you), Red Hot puts an entertaining spin on the Porter catalog. Whether the interpretations are relatively straightforward (David Byrne's "Don't Fence Me In," Lisa Stansfield's "Down in the Depths") or a total departure (erstwhile hip-hoppers the Jungle Brothers' "I Get a Kick Out of You" keeps the hook and jettisons the rest), there's not a dud in the bunch. If the recent film dud DeLovely ruined the idea of pop stars doing Porter, this collection will convince you it's not a bad idea. |
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