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Looking at You

Written: 1928

Words and Music by: Cole Porter

Written for: Wake Up and Dream
(show, 1929)

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About the Show Wake Up and Dream / Origins of the Song

Other songs written for title currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook:

1. What Is This Thing Called Love?

 

For a complete listing of songs used in this show, see IBDB song list.

The IBDB song list (cited in the left column) does not include "Looking at You," though for no reason we know. Robert Kimball writes in The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter that the song was published in March 1929, and:

Introduced in England by Jessie Matthews, Sonny Hale and ensemble and in New York by Miss Matthews, Dave Fitzgibbon and ensemble.

Kimball adds that "it was first sung by Clifton Webb and Dorothy Dickson with Noble Sissle's orchestra at the Ambassadeurs Café, Paris, 1928.

Perhaps the explanation for its omission from the IBDB list has something to do with the possibility that it was not in the show on opening night in New York, for most IBDB information stems from the opening night program.

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