Compilation Playlists on YouTube

Cole Porter

• 27 Essential Cole Porter Songs (as chosen by class members, April 2023; #1 is first, then in descending order)
• Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book​​
• Joan Morris & William Bolcom,  Night and Day: The Cole Porter Album (26 songs--many of them from the 1920s & '30s)

Irving Berlin

• 25 Essential Irving Berlin Songs (as chosen by class members, March 2023; #1 is first, then in descending order)
• Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving BerlinSong Book
• ​Irving Berlin: "This Is the Life!"--The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra plays Berlin songs from 1909-1921 using "original period orchestrations." Some songs you will recognize and others you may have never heard, but all are delightful. (Note: these are not "period recordings"--they were made in 2015.)
• Blue Skies: Songs of Irving Berlin--Joan Morris, Mezzo-soprano, & William Bolcom, Piano (17 songs--most of them from the 1910s and 1920s)