Composer Robert Kapilow refers to "You're the Top" as one of Porter's greatest songs.
The two of them spent the time amusing themselves with a word game, "making up a list of superlatives that rhymed.
"[2] The following is a list of the references used in the version recorded by Cole Porter on November 26, 1934: The 1934 recording with Cole Porter's vocals and piano is available on a CD -- Cole Porter: A Centennial Collection (track 18 of 20), Sony Legacy, CD release 2007 Additional references in other versions of the song: P. G. Wodehouse anglicised it for the British version of Anything Goes.
to "You’re Mussolini / You’re Mrs Sweeny" (both figures, later notorious, were widely admired at the time)[7][8] Porter biographer William McBrien wrote that at the height of its popularity in 1934 to 1935 it had become a "popular pastime" to create parodies of the lyrics.
[2] Porter, who himself had called the song "just a trick" the public would get bored by,[2] was flooded with hundreds of parodies, one reportedly written by Irving Berlin.