Cole porter
Composer:cole porter
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
Album: musical: the gay divorce
Label: microservice records
Genre: jazz
Year: 1932
"Night
and Day" is a popular song by Cole Porter.
It was written for the 1932 musical
play Gay
Divorce. It is perhaps Porter's most popular
contribution to the Great
American Songbook and has been recorded by
dozens of artists.
Fred
Astaire introduced "Night and Day"
on stage, and his recording of the song was a #1 hit. He performed it again in
the 1934 film version of the show, renamed The Gay Divorce,
and it became one of his signature pieces.
There are several accounts on how he got inspiration to
compose the song. One mentioning that he was inspired by
Islamic prayer when he visited Morocco. Another popular legend has it he was
inspired by the Moorish architecture of the Alcazar Hotel in Cleveland Heights,
Ohio.
The song
was so associated with Porter, that when Hollywood first filmed his life story
in 1946, the movie was entitled Night and Day.
"Night and Day" é uma canção escrita
por Cole
Porter em 1932 para
o musical "The Gay Divorceè", que mais tarde foi adaptado em um filme homónimo estrelado por Fred
Astaire e Ginger Rogers.
A canção tornou-se ao longo dos anos um dos mais famosos
standards de jazz,
interpretado por Fred Astaire, Bill Evans,
Art Tatum,
Billie
Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Dionne
Warwick, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley
Bassey, Ringo Starr, Sondre
Lerche, Doris
Day, Charlie Parker, Deanna
Durbin, Jamie Cullum, Etta James,
entre outros.
Em 1990, foi regravada pela banda U2 para o álbum "Red
Hot And Blue", em tributo a Porter e em apoio a uma campanha contra a AIDS.
O conjunto de músicas que compôs ao longo da sua carreira
é imenso. Quase todas redundaram em enormes sucessos, temas obrigatórios de
qualquer big band, cantor ou grupo de jazz. Tornaram-se standards. Porter
foi o compositor que mais contribuiu para o Great American Songbook. Qual o seu
segredo?
Like
the beat beat beat of the tom-tom
When the jungle shadows fall
Like the tick tick tock of the stately clock
As it stands against the wall
Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops
When the summer shower is through
So a voice within me keeps repeating you, you, you
Night
and day, you are the one
Only you beneath the moon or under the sun
Whether near to me, or far
Its no matter darling where you are
I think of you night and day
Day and night, why is it so
That this longing for you follows wherever I go
In the roaring traffics boom
In the silence of my lonely room
I think of you night and day
Night
and day
Theres an oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of
me
And this torment won’t be through
Until you let me spend my life making love to you
Day
and night, night and day
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