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"Night and Day" is a popular song by Cole Porter. It was written for the 1932 musical play Gay...

"Night and Day" is a popular song by Cole Porter. It was written for the 1932 musical play Gay Divorce. It is perhaps Porter's most popular contribution to the Great American Songbook and has been recorded by dozens of artists. Fred Astaire introduced "Night and Day" on stage, and his recording of the song was a #1 hit. He performed it again in the 1934 film version of the show, renamed The Gay Divorcee, and it became one of his signature pieces. Porter was known to claim that the Islamic call to worship he heard on a trip to Morocco inspired the song. The song was so associated with Porter that when Hollywood first filmed his life story in 1946, the movie was entitled Night and Day. "Night and Day" has been recorded many times, notably by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Bassey, Ringo Starr and U2. Sinatra recorded the song five times; with Axel Stordahl in his first solo session in 1942 and again with him in 1947; with Nelson Riddle in 1956 for A Swingin' Affair!, with Don Costa in 1961 for Sinatra and Strings (considered by many to be the best version), and even a disco version with Joe Beck in 1977. Shirley Bassey recorded in for her 1959 album The Bewitching Miss