Night and Day (song)

"Night and Day" is a song written by Cole Porter for the 1932 musical play The Gay Divorce. It was also featured in the 1933 film version, The Gay Divorcee. Fred Astaire sang it in both the stage and film versions. The song subsequently became an American standard and has been performed and recorded by dozens of artists, notably Frank Sinatra.

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Cole Porter - 1932 - Musical play - The Gay Divorce - 1933 - The Gay Divorcee - Fred Astaire - American standard - Frank Sinatra

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Cole Porter is said to have written the song while on his honeymoon in Ravenna, Italy at the end of the 1920s.

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Ravenna - Italy

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He was very impressed by the mood of the small Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, and composed the song thinking of the mausoleum's starry sky.

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