Talk:Miss Otis Regrets
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Dubious - discuss[edit]
The account given in the article is that Porter wrote "Miss Otis Regrets" following a challenge he could write a song about anything. According to this source [1], that's not what happened at all.- Gilliam (talk) 04:09, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Paragraph explaining song's inspiration is contradictory[edit]
Cole Porter spent many holidays in Paris throughout the the 20's and 30's, Ada "Bricktop" Smith was a close friend, and he frequented Bricktop's, whose "modern" performing acts certainly influenced or informed the erudite and dense lyrical content of Porter’s songs. However, despite her assertion and references to that assertion in articles written by journalists , Cole Porter did not write "Miss Otis Regrets" for Ada "Bricktop" Smith.[1] “(Cole Porter was perhaps the greatest influence on my career) “standing right there behind me,” she wrote, “until I became Bricktop, the one and only.” When it came time to open her own club, it was Porter who insisted that she name it Bricktop’s, knowing it was the lady herself people would come to see. He wrote “Miss Otis Regrets,” one of his most successful songs, in her honor. (The idea for the song emerged when she told Porter, of a lynching in the American South, “Well, that man won’t lunch tomorrow.”) ".[2]
It first states that Cole Porter DID NOT write for Ada Smith, but then 2 sentences later, it says that it was written in her honor. So which is it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Etollevsen (talk • contribs) 13:35, 5 May 2015 (UTC)