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  • Does the melody truly consist of a single note?

I deleted this as it us unsourced and as such NPOV:

"and is considered one of the greatest of all popular songs"

Also, this needs to be sourced:

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

If it doesn't get sourced then I am going to delete it. Hdstubbs 04:19, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Done Hdstubbs 17:52, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

There is a difference between 'NPOV' and common conception. Night and Day is considered by most jazz musicians and singers as one of the greatest popular songs. Gareth E Kegg 04:20, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

  • I guess, perhaps, I am misunderstanding the use of the words, 'popular' songs. It seems to be used as a designation as a type of song i.e. greatest jazz song, greatest rock song, as opposed to the way I was thinking about, a great song that is also popular. Is there a category of songs that are considered 'popular' and Night and Day is in that category? I agree with you that Night and Day is a great song; it is one of my personal favorites, but I don't really know what the phrase, "greatest popular song" means. I think there are many popular songs that are also great...I don't know if it is common conception that Night and Day is one of those songs. Hdstubbs 04:29, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps greatest as in one of the shining stars of the Great American Songbook Gareth E Kegg 04:51, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Maybe if we reworded it to say,

"and is one of the most widely recorded examples of a song from the Great American Songbook." Hdstubbs 05:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't see how anyone can deny this is one of the most famous and popular songs in the Great American Songbook. Whenever experts get together and make lists of pop songs of the era, "Night And Day" is near the top. For instance, in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories a Disc Jockey poll in 1953 of favorite songs listed "Night and Day" at #9. And of the 100 most-recorded songs from 1890-1954, it's the highest-ranking Cole Porter song at #10.

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