“You’re The Top” — Cole Porter / Ella Fitzgerald
6 min readMay 9, 2020
“You’re The Top” is pretty much the tale of every relationship I’ve ever had. I’m great at putting people on pedestals.
I’ll grant you that Cole Porter says it a good deal more extravagantly than I’ve ever done, but then he’s a much better wordsmith.
“You’re The Top” is a very clever song, though, from the golden age of songwriting. Cole Porter, along…