“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 time, with hundreds of parodies. The lyrics are particularly notable 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.
Songs with Banjo from Harold Hagler
