Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter | 
| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 3754
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 21799
UPC: 094632179920
EAN: 0094632179920
ASIN: B000008JUM
Release Date: September 25, 1990
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Condition: Cd, case and artwork are in great shape
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| Tracks:
| • | I've Got You Under My Skin - Neneh Cherry | | • | In The Still Of The Night - Neville Brothers | | • | You Do Something To Me - Sinead O Connor | | • | Begin The Beguine - Salif Keita | | • | Love For Sale - Fine Young Cannibals | | • | Well, Did you Evah! - Debbie Harry/Iggy Pop | | • | Miss Otis Regrets/Just One Of Those Things - Kirsty Maccoll/The Pogues | | • | Don't Fence Me In - David Byrne | | • | It's All Right With Me - Tom Waits | | • | Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Annie Lennox | | • | Night And Day - U2 | | • | I Love Paris - Les Negresses Vertes | | • | So In Love - K.D. Lang | | • | Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? - The Thompson Twins | | • | Too Darn Hot - Erasure | | • | I Get A Kick Out Of You - The Jungle Brothers | | • | Down In The Depths - Lisa Stansfield | | • | From This Momment On - Jimmy Somerville | | • | After You - Jody Watley | | • | Do I Love You? - Aztec Camera |
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There's a long tradition of artists banding together for a noble cause, but--needless to say--good intentions are no guarantee of good art. Fortunately, the twain do meet and the project even succeeds with creative flair in this compilation. It kicked off the Red Hot AIDS Benefit series back in 1990 and in fact launched its own sort of minigenre, including theme albums devoted to George Gershwin and Duke Ellington. In fact, this eclectic mix of Cole Porter covers interpreted by a wide swath of contemporary artists unfurls a pretty ambitious agenda in addition to its message of AIDS awareness and compassion. Here, the legacy of this ultra-sophisticated, closeted master of the popular song from the era of the "lost generation" is presented as a source of rejuvenating inspiration. Porter's craft seems validated by the very flexibility of the original songs as they get retrofitted to encompass styles ranging from U2 and Tom Waits to Jungle Brothers. There's an occasional miscalculation (Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop's didactic "updating" of Porter's bon vivant wit doesn't compare well with the original), but moments of stunning fusion abound (Sinead O'Connor and Annie Lenox contribute especially memorable gems). Instead of getting lost in translation, Red Hot + Blue adds a whole new dimension to the art of swellegance. --Thomas May
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 Cole Porter standards like you never imagined them August 10, 2008
Porter's good old standards; we all know them. But, I never could have imagined them done to such beats, with such rhythms. Brilliant and fun; a great discovery.
 Crazy MP3 Link January 10, 2008
It says click here to download, which is what I wanted to do. It turns up some crazy album. Amazon will have to get a LOT better at searching and user interface to win me over from iTunes.
At last October 3, 2007
I purchased this when it was released, (on cassette), listened to it so much over time, not even re-spooling could save it and I actually morned its passing. To find it so many years later on DVD was like Christmas morning. So many talented artist.
Red Hot & Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter July 25, 2007
Awesome CD, used to have the cassette tape. We decided we had waited long enough to here this grouping of music again....so bought the CD. Especially as it was sold as a money raiser for AIDS. Wonderful songs, fab groups singing them. We love it.
 red hot and sometimes, not! May 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is the red hot that started the whole affair. this collection of cole porter covers was recorded as a way to let the world know that the music industry cared about aids awareness and raising money to bring about a cure.
the representation of artists is a cross section of who was hot in 1990 with few exceptions (prince, janet jackson, madonna and cyndi lauper immediately comes to mind--madonna would pay her dues soon though). some of them are gloriously up to doing the cole porter songs justice.
for example, lisa stansfield's 'down in the depths' is elegantly jazzy and a perfect showcase for her sweet honeyed mezzo. and, kd lang can do wrong working her way through 'so in love'. it's brilliant. as is annie lennox's 'ev'ry time we say goodbye'.
others bring their stamp to the songs and make it happen for the pop market. u2's 'night and day' is a great success, david byrne takes 'don't fence me in' on a great romp and fine young cannibals take 'love for sale', which has an unshakeable identity with women from billie holiday to aretha franklin, and makes it a randy boy-toy cruise that porter would have loved!
now, while sinead o'connor and iggy pop made be the last two singers one would expect to take on cole porter, o'connor's whispery boop-a-doop approach to 'you do something to me' is a definite change of pace and pop just says 'so what!?' he and debbie harry give 'well, did you evah?' the punked out once over that again would have tickled porter to no end.
now, if he wouldn't lose his sense of humor on some of the rest, as a listener i do. jody watley has one of the toughest tunes to do in 'after you--who?'. and a sense of humor or a little help from elton john might have saved her. as is her apporach is too studied and careful. and i don't get salif keita's 'begin the beguine'. this is one of the songs that needed to be sung because of its lusicious melody. and i like rap as much as the next person but i have to concede the point that porter's lyrics don't need reconception as raps.
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