This being Wednesday, June the 9th, the Pointless Digressions crew is pleased to pay tribute to the great Cole Porter. We had not known he was left-handed, despite the many happy hours we spent with Cole and Monty, Scott and Zelda, at the Murphys' villa at Cap d'Antibes, and despite the fact that we can sing all 116 verses of "But In the Morning, No."
We salute, as well, the long list of famous left-handers. When you're in a group that includes Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Einstein and Barrack Obama, what more can you want?
But the list is as long as your arm--your left arm. Other notable left-handers: Buzz Aldrin, Dave Barry, Jimi Hendrix, Larry Bird, Marshall McLuhan, Cary Grant, Errol Garner, Charlie Chaplin, Bill Clinton, Sandy Koufax, Alexander the Great, Milton Caniff, Edward R. Murrow, Toulouse Lautrec, Harpo Marx, many Royals, among them Queen Victoria, Prince Charles and Prince William, C. Montgomery Burns, and the memorable and near incomparable star of the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Athletics, Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove.
We go now to listen to the complete Cole Porter oeuvre, beginning with "But In the Morning, No," his splendid fugue from "DuBarry Was a Lady."
"When my old Gunga Din
Brings the Bromo-Seltzer in
That's the time when I'm in low...."
LEFT ON!!
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