The sparkling melodies and wordplay of Cole Porter have inspired generations of top-shelf interpreters, including Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday. His versatile compositions even stirred jazz iconoclast Miles Davis (the lively “Love for Sale”) and stadium rockers U2 (the dance-remixed “Night and Day”). And Ethel Merman brought a fresh comic twist to the giddy “It's De-Lovely”.