Cole Porter was riding toward disaster and didn't know it.
This was 1937, amid a decade that the Broadway composer filled with hit musicals such as:
"The New Yorkers," "Gay Divorce," "Nymph Errant," "Anything Goes," "Jubilee," "Born to Dance," "Red, Hot and Blue," "Rosalie," "Leave It to Me" and "Du Barry Was a Lady."
In the midst of those showstoppers were his top tunes:
"Night and Day," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "Begin the Beguine," "Just One of Those Things," "Easy to Love" and "You're the Top."
Porter could have been writing about himself in "Ridin' High":
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