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Here is a cover version of Bing and Grace Kelly's "True Love". Bing recorded it for Capitol, but so did Margaret Whiting. Whiting's version was from June 6, 1956...
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Elton John and Kiki Dee did a nice version too!
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Blonde56 wrote:
Elton John and Kiki Dee did a nice version too!
I don't think I ever heard that version!
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Margaret was a nice lady.
Met her the Hofstra gathering. Also had a chat with Frank Sinatra Jnr. And a few others including Kathryn and Howard and I also did a presentation.
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Ron Field wrote:
Margaret was a nice lady.
Met her the Hofstra gathering. Also had a chat with Frank Sinatra Jnr. And a few others including Kathryn and Howard and I also did a presentation.
My biggest Bing regret is that I did not make it up to Hofstra. I really wish I would have gone there.
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I was not aware of Margaret Whiting's contemporary 1956 version of TRUE LOVE.Like most of her records, she's a pro,an already OLD pro.In 1957,Elvis Presley also recorded this fine (Cole Porter) penned song.It's also done well,as well putting his own (then new) vocal style.Perhaps adding a slight bit of drama in a still mello mood? This would turn out to be the only Cole Porter tune that Presley would ever record,& speculation had it that Porter himself did not like him.Elvis was (then) a young upstart anyway.It's also kind of sad .Yet Porter already HAD already made it years before,and getting older,as it's problems.It's not hard to figure that Bing & Frank Sinatra HAD defined MOST of Cole's songs.You CAN consider the 'Hight Society' LP the last of Porter's GREAT soundtracks-& Bing (with Grace Kelly) on TRUE LOVE,the HIT,the original model for later versions,including Elvis's re-working.
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Colin Bratkovich wrote:
I was not aware of Margaret Whiting's contemporary 1956 version of TRUE LOVE.Like most of her records, she's a pro,an already OLD pro.In 1957,Elvis Presley also recorded this fine (Cole Porter) penned song.It's also done well,as well putting his own (then new) vocal style.Perhaps adding a slight bit of drama in a still mello mood? This would turn out to be the only Cole Porter tune that Presley would ever record,& speculation had it that Porter himself did not like him.Elvis was (then) a young upstart anyway.It's also kind of sad .Yet Porter already HAD already made it years before,and getting older,as it's problems.It's not hard to figure that Bing & Frank Sinatra HAD defined MOST of Cole's songs.You CAN consider the 'Hight Society' LP the last of Porter's GREAT soundtracks-& Bing (with Grace Kelly) on TRUE LOVE,the HIT,the original model for later versions,including Elvis's re-working.
Well said!
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I can't recall hearing any record of 'True love' other than the duet by Bing and Grace, so thank you David. Gee, it's almost twenty years since that wonderful Hofstra conference.