Cole Porter is something of a legend when it comes to music. He wrote a great many songs but Anything Goes seems to encompass his rather gregarious spirit as a younger man and a composer. He was fond of having fun with his music and with entertaining others when he first started out and never shied away from the chance to expand his influence when it came to tickling the keys of a piano or creating something new for people to enjoy. It’s not too hard to think that his grandfather might have been disappointed, the man did want him to become a lawyer, but it’s also easy to think that Porter, upon finding music as his favored form of expression, went his own way in life. It seems that a lot of time when people expect one thing of a person that individual will find a way to do things as they see fit and succeed rather than conform and do the sensible thing.
Cole Porter made sure that his legacy would be what he wanted.
5. Fallout 4-Anything Goes
Set in a post-apocalyptic world where everything that remains is a shadow of the world that came before, this setting is one that’s perfect for the ghosts of the old world to haunt the living. If you want a feeling of melancholy in any form of media that has to do with a far-flung, seemingly hopeless future, then bringing a piece of the long-forgotten past is the perfect way to accentuate the vast gulf between them.
4. Strictly Come Dancing
As a musical number Anything Goes is extremely easy to work into a dance number and can be picked up fairly easily by anyone so long as they understand simple choreography. Porter was well known for putting on a show like no other and was well-respected for his talents. Throughout his career he not only wrote the music for his shows but the lyrics as well.
3. Glee
This song has been the basis for many shows and performances throughout the years following Porter’s passing. The original basis for a lot of this had to do with the book and then the play that was brought to Broadway in 1934 and later on recreated throughout the years. It’s been taken, adapted, and used many times over as needed in order to get the right feel and look for each new use.
2. 2011 Tony Awards
The initial story that used this popular Porter song was that of a trip upon an ocean liner that included the madcap antics of a crew aboard an ocean liner that was highly entertaining in its time. The fact that so many people have sought to recreate it simply means that it was considered one of the more popular songs and dance numbers for its time and any other.
1. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
This was honestly the first time I’d heard this song and obviously since it’s in a different language I had no idea what was being said other than ‘anything goes’. It was my first introduction to Cole Porter and that’s why it rang out so clear.
The man was a certifiable genius with music.
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