Porteriana

Speranza

So Goetz went to the Lido in 1928 with the express purpose of talking the reluctant composer Porter into creating another score.

Finding Porter sunning himself on the Lido beach, Goetz introduced himself and immediately offered what he was sure would be an attractive proposal.

Porter would only have to compose eight songs.

PARIS, though it was tiblled, Time-fashion, as a 'musicomedy', and though it did well at the box office, was little more than an incidental comedy with incidental music.

Of the eight Porter songs, only five were used.

All the songs were sung by Bordoni.

"Let's misbehave" was replaced by "Let's do it (let's fall in love)".

It immediately established Porter as one of the most ingenious creators of sly and imaginative lyrics.

The reception to his songs for PARIS convinced Porter that there were pleasures to be had in the world of musical comedy.

The next year, he and Goetz again worked together in FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN CAN'T BE WRONG. It was the first of seven Porter musicals to have librettos written or co-written by Herbert Fields.

It was also the first musical directed by Edgar Montillion "Monty" Woolley, Porter's instructor at Yale.

"I worship you" revealed Porter's interest in the mythology of the Greeks.

There was even a JAUNTY, INSCOUCIANT air about the more traditional love duets, "You do something to me" and "You've got that thing".