This composer compared “the beat beat beat of the tom-tom” and “the tick tick tock of the stately clock” to a voice repeating “you, you, you” in the song “Night and Day.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this prolific composer of standards such as “All of You,” “Begin the Beguine (“beg-EEN”),” and “Love For Sale.”
ANSWER: Cole Porter [or Cole Albert Porter]
[10e] This musician recorded Cole Porter standards in the first album of her Song Book series, which inaugurated Norman Granz’s Verve Records. This “First Lady of Song” was known for her scat singing.
ANSWER: Ella Fitzgerald [or Ella Jane Fitzgerald; prompt on Ella]
[10h] This Cole Porter song is the first track on the 1972 album Ella Loves Cole. To comply with the Hays Code, Porter edited a lyric from this song about cocaine to “Some like the perfume from Spain.”
ANSWER: “I Get a Kick Out of You”
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