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You're the Top

You're The Top is a Cole Porter song from the 1934 musical Anything Goes. It is about a man and a woman who take turns complimenting each other. The best selling version was Paul Whiteman's Victor single, which made the top five.

It was the most popular song from Anything Goes at the start with hundreds of parodies.^[1]

The lyrics are particularly significant because they offer a snapshot as to what was highly prized in the mid-1930s, and demonstrate Porter's rhyming ability.

Some of the lyrics were re-written by P.G. Wodehouse for the British version of 'Anything Goes.'

The song was covered by Barbra Streisand for the 1972 film What's Up, Doc?

A version sung by Cole Porter was featured on the soundtrack to the 2007 video game BioShock.

Referenced

The following is a list of many of the references made in the song:

References

External links

• Explication of lyrics by Slate.com
• Additional Explanation of lyrics by Slate.com
• Explication of lyrics by Playbill
• Additional risqué lyrics at Slate.com of disputed provenance, possibly by Irving Berlin or Porter himself