The clip is about four minutes long; it features a magnificent husky voice of a famous Canadian vocalist K.D. Lang performing Cole Porter's well known song from the late nineteen twenties titled "So In Love". The song was a hit from Porter's last successful Broadway musical - "Kiss Me Kate". In spite of being an American legend - Cole Porter had his share of musical flops as well as some heavy duty drama in his personal life.
The selection of several brief but poignant scenes - well edited - presented in this video come from the phenomenal movie about Cole Porter's life from 2004 titled "De Lovely" in which Kevin Kline gives an outstanding performance as Cole Porter and Ashley Judd is no less brilliant as his beautiful wife Linda - his life's most important - love and companion - notwithstanding Porter's frequent "peccadilloes" on the sly - with many famous men of his day.
Cole Porter wrote most of the lyrics to his songs which resonate with tons of people until today. It's evident that he experienced many highs and lows which are a part of love - since love comes with an exorbitant price tag - as far as the emotions are concerned. Here are some lyrics from the song "So In Love" - which is still a top favorite with many people - including yours truly. At first comes - "I am in love with my joy delirious," then it changes to: "So taunt me and hurt me, deceive me - desert me - I'm yours till I die." That last phrase "I'm yours till I die" is an exaggeration - in my opinion - since most neglected lovers find new loves.
Enjoy the video everybody and if you get a chance - that movie "De Lovely" is offered inexpensively by YouTube. All of us - here - have seen it - at least - several times. We - all - will have a super good third week of March 2019! The big snow is gone from Pittsburgh's hills - till much later this year since the spring 2019 is officially here! We meet here a week from now - same channel - same time - same place!
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