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It's All Right with Me

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Published
  
1953

Language
  
English

Writer(s)
  
Cole Porter

"It's All Right With Me" is a popular song written by Cole Porter, for his 1953 musical Can-Can, where it was introduced by Peter Cookson as the character Judge Aristide Forestier.

The song is also used in the Cole Porter musical High Society. In the original 1998 Broadway production it was performed by the character Tracy Samantha Lord, played by Melissa Errico.

Other recordings of the song

  • Erroll Garner (1956)
  • Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (1956), Ella at the Opera House (1958), Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert (1959)
  • Rita Reys - The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956)
  • Harry James - Harry James and His New Jazz Band, Vol. 1 (Mr. Music MMCD 7010, 1956 [2002])
  • Jeri Southern - Jeri Southern Meets Cole Porter (1959)
  • Frank Sinatra - recorded for the film version of Can-Can in 1960, and again in 1984 for L.A. Is My Lady
  • Vic Damone - On the Swingin' Side (1961)
  • Steve Lawrence - Lawrence Goes Latin (1961)
  • Brenda Lee - All Alone Am I (1963)
  • Crystal Gayle - We Must Believe in Magic (1977). Crystal Gayle's version was also adapted into a jingle for Eastern Airlines in the late 1970s ("Eastern's got the right time and the right place for you...")
  • Zoot Sims - Live in Copenhagen (1978, released 1995), with Kenny Drew, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and Ed Thigpen
  • Tom Waits - Red Hot + Blue (1990)
  • Harry Connick, Jr - We Are in Love (1990)
  • Mel Tormé - Sing Sing Sing (1992)
  • George Michael - Songs from the Last Century (1999)
  • Susannah McCorkle - Ballad Essentials (2002)
  • Jazz Orchestra of the Delta - Big Band Reflections of Cole Porter (2003)
  • Natalie Cole - Still Unforgettable (2008)
  • Brad Mehldau - Art of the Trio Volume Two (1998); Live in Marciac (2011)
  • Moloko covered the song for their 1995 tour, Roisin Murphy also covered it in 2004.
  • Chelsea Krombach, also sings in on her debut album Profile (2004)
  • Seth MacFarlane - No One Ever Tells You (2015)
  • Oleta Adams - Third Set (2017)

    • References

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