A Voice I Never Forgot

In 1949 my parents took my to NY and I saw Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate, original cast with Alfred Drake and Patricia Morrison. This song, drawn entirely from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, is offensive now because it advises the submissiveness of women. But it is the amazing voice of Morrison that captures me now; I saw this as a youth and now listen to it again with an aching sense of its beauty, even if it is not a song for our times and ideals. Those were actors and actresses then; there is nothing like that now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0w09...

Or this, also from the original show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75P5d...