Track Listing

1. It's De-Lovely - Robbie Williams
2. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) - Alanis Morissette
3. Begin The Beguine - Sheryl Crow
4. Let's Misbehave - Elvis Costello
5. Be A Clown - Kevin Kline, Peter Polycarpou and Chorus
6. Night And Day - John Barrowman and Kevin Kline
7. True Love - Ashley Judd and Tayler Hamilton
8. What Is This Thing Called Love? - Lemar
9. I Love You - Mick Hucknall
10. Just One Of Those Things - Diana Krall
11. Anything Goes - Caroline O'Connor and Chorus
12. Experiment - Kevin Kline
13. Love For Sale - Vivian Green
14. So In Love - Lara Fabian and Mario Frangoulis
15. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Natalie Cole
16. Blow, Gabriel, Blow - Jonathan Pryce, Kevin Kline, Cast and Chorus
17. In the Still Of The Night - Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd
18. You're The Top - Cole Porter

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11925 in Music
• Released on: 2004-06-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack

Album Description
European version of 19-track soundtrack includes the bonus track 'Easy To Love' - Kevin Kline. Columbia.

Amazon.com
At first glance, the approach picked for De-Lovely will be familiar to those who already own Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter. On both albums, contemporary pop stars cover classics by Porter. But many of the interpretations on Red Hot + Blue were modernized, whereas the approach on De-Lovely is more traditional---it's the soundtrack to a biopic about Porter, after all, so a classic (though not quite period) sound prevails. What's surprising is how well many of the singers handle the songs without the crutch of a contemporary pop retooling. Who would have thought that Alanis Morissette had such a natural affinity for "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)," for instance? She fares equally well in her screen cameo, whereas Diana Krall sounds superb on "Just One of Those Things" but looks horribly uncomfortable in the film. Other good surprises include Robbie Williams's "It's De-Lovely" and Kevin Kline as Porter, coming across as a more tuneful Rex Harrison. Elvis Costello, meanwhile, confirms he's a better songwriter than singer, and as Linda Porter, Ashley Judd is hesitant at best. In a nice touch, a recording of Cole Porter himself performing "You're the Top" provides the album's coda. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews

Deloverly soundtrack
We gave out thirty copies as a thank you gift at a recent birthday party with Cole Porter music as the theme. We have gotten many enthusiatic thank yous for the gift.

Huge Disappointment
It's been said many times already in other reviews, but the "new" versions of Porter's songs are absolutely horrible. These are NOT Cole Porter's arrangements, folks. If this was to be a soundtrack for a movie about HIM, then it should have stuck with those versions of the songs. Otherwise, they should have billed the album as what it is - Cole Porter's songs done with new arrangements and "modern" singers. However, given that the movie was also awful, the soundtrack should not be too surprising. Neither the movie nor the soundtrack had much to do with the music of Cole Porter. This was all about showcasing Mr. Porter's "other" life, and subsequently, emphasizing the more cynical, tragic, and depraved side of his life. Very sad and depressing. Thankfully I checked this out from the local library before buying it. Some other poor slob shelled out the money, found the CD to be a major disappointment, as many others have, and donated it to the library as an act of desperation so as not to admit it was garbage and relegate it to said garbage.

Sad Cole Porter CD
I love Cole Porter. I hated the movie DeLovely but loved the songs. Some of the songs are direct imports from the movie, other songs are done in a studio I guess specifically for the CD. Very disappointing CD but if you don't mind skipping through half the songs buy it.