"Born 1892, who composed the song ""Miss Otis Regrets""?"
Miss Otis Regrets Miss Otis Regrets "Miss Otis Regrets" is a song composed by Cole Porter in 1934, and first performed by Douglas Byng in "Hi Diddle Diddle", a revue that opened on October 3, 1934, at London's Savoy Theatre. Cole Porter spent many holidays in Paris throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Ada "Bricktop" Smith was a close friend, and he frequented Bricktop's, whose "modern" performing acts certainly influenced or informed the erudite and dense lyrical content of Porter’s songs. However, despite her assertion and references to that assertion in articles by journalists, Porter did not write "Miss Otis Regrets" for Bricktop. According
Miss Otis Regrets awesome girl who's visiting town after having moved away: "You can tell all my pets, all my blondes and brunettes, Mister Otis regrets that he won't be around.” Truman Capote, in his article published in the November 1975 issue of "Esquire Magazine", relates a story Porter told him. Porter used "Miss Otis" as a punchline in the 1950s, opening the door to dismiss a presumptuous man from his home. Porter handed him a check as he said "Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today. Now get out." The song was recorded by Alberta Hunter with Jack Jackson and His