Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, so I thought I should post a song with love in the title. It is, however, not your conventional love song.

Cole Porter wrote Love For Sale for the 1930 musical The New Yorkers. It’s been recorded somewhere slightly north or south of 900 times.

We begin with Lady Day:

Anita O’Day and Billy May. Say no more.

Marvin Gaye did it all including standards.

Here’s the Queen of Soul looking shady. Yeah.

My late New Orleans homey serving up some Cole Porter.

The quirkiest version this week. The quirkiness was the attraction.

A duet from the ultimate musical odd couple:

What would the Friday Cocktail Hour be without instrumental versions of the week’s song? This time, Sidney Bechet followed by Oscar Peterson.

Have I told you lately how much I love Oscar Peterson?

That’s it for this week. Let’s drink to the people who know how to celebrate Carnival without bringing all their worldly possession onto the public green. It’s what Cole would want. Never argue with him.