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Red Hot & Blue

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song Title	Sample
1. I've Got You Under My Skin - Neneh Cherry ~ Various Artists
2. Night & Day - U2 ~ Various Artists
3. You Do Something To Me - Sinead O'Connor ~ Various Artists
4. In The Still Of The Night - The Neville Brothers ~ Various Artists
5. Love For Sale - Fine Young Cannibals ~ Various Artists
6. Don't Fence Me In - David Byrne ~ Various Artists
7. Well Did You Evah!: Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch) / Just One Of Those Things - Deborah Harry/Iggy Pop ~ Various Artists
8. Miss Otis Regrets / Just One Of Those Things - Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues ~ Various Artists
9. I Love Paris - Les Negresses Vertes ~ Various Artists
10. It's All Right With Me - Tom Waits ~ Various Artists
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You - Jungle Brothers ~ Various Artists
12. From This Moment On - Jimmy Sommerville ~ Various Artists
13. Too Darn Hot - Erasure ~ Various Artists
14. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? - The Thompson Twins ~ Various Artists
15. Begin The Beguine - Salif Keita ~ Various Artists
16. Down In The Depths - Lisa Stansfield ~ Various Artists
17. After You Who? - Jody Watley ~ Various Artists
18. Do I Love You? - Aztec Camera ~ Various Artists
19. So In Love - K.D. Lang ~ Various Artists
20. Every Time We Say Goodbye - Annie Lennox ~ Various Artists

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	RED HOT BLUE is a tribute to Cole Porter, featuring cover versions of Porter songs performed by contemporary artists. Proceeds from the album benefit AIDS research and relief.
	Produced in 1990 to benefit AIDS research, RED HOT BLUE features contemporary rock, pop, R&B, and electronica artists interpreting the songs of Cole Porter. A closeted homosexual whose lyrics are often provocative and thinly coded and whose tunes are infectious, melancholy, and joyful at once, Porter seems the perfect choice for this benefit album. Nearly every song here has lodged itself in the American songbook, but it is the breadth and variety in the interpretations that make RED HOT BLUE such an interesting collection.
	Neneh Cherry's loose, hip-hop-inflected take on "I've Got You Under My Skin" serves notice that this will not be your ordinary standards album, while U2's pulsing, slightly ominous version of "Night and Day" proves the true malleability of Porter's tunes. The Neville Brothers tropical-flavored "In the Still of the Night" is sheer bliss, as is K.D. Lang's stirring "So In Love." And while Sinead O'Connor plays it fairly straight with "You Do Something To Me," Tom Waits's "It's All Right With Me" and the Jungle Brothers "I Get a Kick Out of You" add variety and spice to the set, which--in addition to being for a good cause--is a thoroughly engaging listen.

Artist Overview

Responsible for such classics as "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love," and "Anything Goes," Cole Porter is synonymous with both the American songbook and Broadway musical tradition. A prolific composer and lyricist, Porter wrote numerous musicals throughout the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, including CAN-CAN and KISS ME, KATE. His songs represent the epitome of pop wit and sophistication, and have been performed by artists from Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee to the Jungle Brothers and Paul Westerberg.

Technical Info

	Release Date : 07/23/1996
	Original Release Date : 1990
	Catalog ID : 21799
	Label : Chrysalis Records (USA)
	Number of Discs : 1
	Runtime : 77m : 55s
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : AAD
	UPC : 00094632179920