Later recordings 1950s–80s įrank Sinatra recorded the song for Capitol from October 17, 1955, to January 16, 1956. (Goldwyn was from Poland and Sten from Ukraine.) The final stanza references an advertisement that Eleanor Roosevelt had done for a bed company. One couplet refers to Samuel Goldwyn's box-office failure Nana starring Anna Sten, whose English was said to be incomprehensible to all except Goldwyn. Rockefeller, producer Max Gordon, the Vanderbilts, the Whitneys, and prominent tastemaker Lady Mendl. The song mentions Mae West, Hollywood sex symbol, and Missus Ned McLean ( Evalyn Walsh McLean), who had traveled to Soviet Union early after the Russian Revolution in an attempt to have a Tsarist relative reappointed Ambassador to the United States. The opening stanza is believed to have influenced the orations of Malcolm X, who in 1964 said "Our forefathers were not the Pilgrims, we didn't land on Plymouth Rock, the rock was landed on us. If today, any shock they should try to stem, 'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock Since the Puritans got a shock, When they landed on Plymouth Rock The song opens with a reference to the Massachusetts Bay Colony "Times have changed, And we've often rewound the clock Ī recording by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra (vocal by Ramona Davies) was very popular in 1934. Many of the lyrics include humorous references to figures of scandal and gossip from Depression-era high society. " Anything Goes" is a song written by Cole Porter for his 1934 musical of the same name. Show tune from the 1934 musical of the same name
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