You'd Be So Easy to Love
{{Short description|1934 song by Cole Porter}}
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"(You'd Be So) Easy to Love" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for William Gaxton to sing in the 1934 Broadway show Anything Goes. However Gaxton was unhappy about its wide vocal range and it was cut from the musical.{{cite book|last1=Gioia|first1=Ted|title=The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire|date=201|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=0199937397|page=96}} Porter re-wrote it for the 1936 film Born to Dance, where it was introduced by Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, and Frances Langford under its alternate title, "Easy to Love". The song was later added to the 1987 and 2011 revivals of Anything Goes under the complete title "You’d Be So Easy to Love".Lincoln Center Theater, Anything Goes, New Broadway Cast Recording (1987).
Early hit versions were by Shep Fields, Frances Langford and Ray Noble.{{cite book|last1=Whitburn|first1=Joel|title=Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954|date=1986|publisher=Record Research Inc|location=Wisconsin, USA|isbn=0-89820-083-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/495 495]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/495}}
Other Notable recordings
{{ external media | float = center | width = 270px | audio1 = You may hear the song "You'd Be So Easy to Love" performed by the Shep Fields Rippling Rhythm Orchestra in 1936
[https://archive.org/details/78_easy-to-love_shep-fields-and-his-rippling-rhythm-orchestra-cole-porter_gbia0152305a Here on Archive.org]}}
- Shep Fields - recorded with his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (1936)[https://archive.org/details/78_easy-to-love_shep-fields-and-his-rippling-rhythm-orchestra-cole-porter_gbia0152305a "Easy To Love" performed by Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra on archive.org]
- Billie Holiday - Quintessential Billie Holiday: Vol. II (1936) (recorded with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra, October 21, 1936).{{cite web|title=The Online Discographical Project|url=http://www.78discography.com/BRN7500.htm|website=78discography.com|access-date=July 26, 2017}}
- Josephine Baker - C'est si facile de vous aimer (1937)
- Maxine Sullivan - recorded for Vocalion on October 22, 1937.{{cite web|title=The Online Discographical Project|url=http://www.78discography.com/VOC3500.htm|website=78discography.com|access-date=July 26, 2017}}
- Lee Wiley - recorded April 15, 1940, Hot House Rose (1996),{{cite web|title=allmusic.com|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/hot-house-rose-mw0000605938|website=allmusic.com|access-date=July 26, 2017}} Legendary Song Stylist (1999)
- Judy Garland - Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941). Cut from final film. Released on the album Collector's Gems from MGM Films (1996).{{cite web|title=allmusic.com|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/collectors-gems-from-mgm-films-mw0000080644|website=allmusic.com|access-date=July 26, 2017}}
- Bing Crosby - recorded December 24, 1947{{cite web|title=A Bing Crosby Discography|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/crosby1bDecca.html|website=BING magazine|publisher=International Club Crosby|access-date=July 26, 2017}} and included in the album Bing Crosby Sings Cole Porter Songs (1949)
- Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker with Strings (Studio recordings of July 1950)
- Sammy Davis Jr. – Starring Sammy Davis Jr. (1955)
- Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (1956)
- Johnny Mathis - Johnny Mathis (1957)
- Hank Mobley - Hank (with Donald Byrd playing the lead melody) (1957)
- Sonny Stitt - Personal Appearance (1957)
- Doris Day - Hooray for Hollywood (1958)
- Lem Winchester and Ramsey Lewis trio - A Tribute to Clifford Brown (1958)
- Shirley Bassey - The Fabulous Shirley Bassey (1959)
- Oscar Peterson - Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Songbook (1959)
- Linda Lawson - Introducing Linda Lawson (1960)
- Gene Ammons - Jug (1961)
- Frank Sinatra - Ring-A-Ding-Ding (1961)
- Al Hirt - Trumpet and Strings (1962)[http://www.allmusic.com/album/trumpet-and-strings-mw0000910613 Al Hirt, Trumpet and Strings] Retrieved April 8, 2013.
- Bill Evans - Conception (Studio recording of April 1962, issue 1981, reissue 2014)
- Stan Kenton - Mellophonium Moods (1962){{cite web|title=Discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/Stan-Kenton-Mellophonium-Moods-1962/release/4714254|website=Discogs.com|access-date=July 26, 2017}}
- Cannonball Adderley - Nippon Soul (1963)
- Julie London - All Through the Night: Julie London Sings the Choicest of Cole Porter (1965)
- Johnny Hartman - Thank You for Everything (1998), rec. 1976
- Susannah McCorkle - Easy to Love: The Songs of Cole Porter (1996),{{cite web|title=Discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/Susannah-McCorkle-Easy-To-Love-The-Songs-Of-Cole-Porter/release/9464991|website=Discogs.com|access-date=July 26, 2017}}
- Howard McGillin - Anything Goes 1987 revival cast recording (1987).{{cite web|title=allmusic.com|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/anything-goes-1987-broadway-revival-cast-mw0000204973|website=allmusic.com|access-date=July 26, 2017}}
- Grover Mitchell - On Track with his New Blue Devils (1997){{cite web|title=Jazz Music Archive|url=http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/grover-mitchell/grover-mitchells-new-blue-devils-on-track|website=Jazz Music Archive|access-date=Dec 10, 2017}}
- Harry Connick Jr. - Come by Me (1999)
Film appearances
- 1936 Born to Dance - sung by Eleanor Powell and James Stewart, Frances Langford and danced by her and Buddy Ebsen
- 1946 Night and Day - sung by chorus
- 1947 This Time for Keeps - sung by Johnnie Johnston
- 1950 Side Street - sung by Jean Hagen
- 1953 Easy to Love - sung by Tony Martin and played often throughout the picture.
References
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