Porteriana: "HITCHY-KOO" (Liberty Theatre)

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"Old Fashioned Garden".

The war over, Porter returned to America.

His already growing reputation as a clever sophisticate resulted in this commision.

HITCHCOCK, a fairly successful comic, began his annual revue series in 1917.

Although parts of HITCHY-KOO's score displayed Porter's sophisticated lyricism, it was the simple, sentimental, "Old Fashioned Garden" that became his first song hit.