Music CD - Various Artists, Cole Porter: De-Lovely

	Music CD: De-Lovely Artist: Various Artists, Cole Porter List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $6.99 Your Save: $ 6.99 ( 50% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks: 1. It's De-Lovely - Robbie Williams 2. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) - Alanis Morissette 3. Begin The Beguine - Sheryl Crow 4. Let's Misbehave - Elvis Costello 5. Be A Clown - Kevin Kline, Peter Polycarpou and Chorus 6. Night And Day - John Barrowman and Kevin Kline 7. True Love - Ashley Judd and Tayler Hamilton 8. What Is This Thing Called Love? - Lemar 9. I Love You - Mick Hucknall 10. Just One Of Those Things - Diana Krall 11. Anything Goes - Caroline O'Connor and Chorus 12. Experiment - Kevin Kline 13. Love For Sale - Vivian Green 14. So In Love - Lara Fabian and Mario Frangoulis 15. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Natalie Cole 16. Blow, Gabriel, Blow - Jonathan Pryce, Kevin Kline, Cast and Chorus 17. In the Still Of The Night - Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd 18. You're The Top - Cole Porter
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0827969064023 Format: Soundtrack Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: 2004-06-15 Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Deloverly soundtrack Comment: We gave out thirty copies as a thank you gift at a recent birthday party with Cole Porter music as the theme. We have gotten many enthusiatic thank yous for the gift. Customer Rating: Summary: Huge Disappointment Comment: It's been said many times already in other reviews, but the "new" versions of Porter's songs are absolutely horrible. These are NOT Cole Porter's arrangements, folks. If this was to be a soundtrack for a movie about HIM, then it should have stuck with those versions of the songs. Otherwise, they should have billed the album as what it is - Cole Porter's songs done with new arrangements and "modern" singers. However, given that the movie was also awful, the soundtrack should not be too surprising. Neither the movie nor the soundtrack had much to do with the music of Cole Porter. This was all about showcasing Mr. Porter's "other" life, and subsequently, emphasizing the more cynical, tragic, and depraved side of his life. Very sad and depressing. Thankfully I checked this out from the local library before buying it. Some other poor slob shelled out the money, found the CD to be a major disappointment, as many others have, and donated it to the library as an act of desperation so as not to admit it was garbage and relegate it to said garbage. Customer Rating: Summary: Sad Cole Porter CD Comment: I love Cole Porter. I hated the movie DeLovely but loved the songs. Some of the songs are direct imports from the movie, other songs are done in a studio I guess specifically for the CD. Very disappointing CD but if you don't mind skipping through half the songs buy it. Customer Rating: Summary: De-Lovely soundtrack review Comment: I love the music of Cole Porter. This CD reminded me so much of the movie and I like the way the music was sung in a pop-rock style. Customer Rating: Summary: What a Disappointment Comment: I watched most of this movie once and then threw it out on the next rubish collection date. I thought that the truncated musical numbers were only so so and I did not care to know so much about his with-male-partner(s) sex life. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: At first glance, the approach picked for De-Lovely will be familiar to those who already own Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter. On both albums, contemporary pop stars cover classics by Porter. But many of the interpretations on Red Hot + Blue were modernized, whereas the approach on De-Lovely is more traditional---it's the soundtrack to a biopic about Porter, after all, so a classic (though not quite period) sound prevails. What's surprising is how well many of the singers handle the songs without the crutch of a contemporary pop retooling. Who would have thought that Alanis Morissette had such a natural affinity for "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)," for instance? She fares equally well in her screen cameo, whereas Diana Krall sounds superb on "Just One of Those Things" but looks horribly uncomfortable in the film. Other good surprises include Robbie Williams's "It's De-Lovely" and Kevin Kline as Porter, coming across as a more tuneful Rex Harrison. Elvis Costello, meanwhile, confirms he's a better songwriter than singer, and as Linda Porter, Ashley Judd is hesitant at best. In a nice touch, a recording of Cole Porter himself performing "You're the Top" provides the album's coda. --Elisabeth Vincentelli