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* ColbertBump: Porter's popularity was rekindled after his song "Anything Goes" was featured in the ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' soundtrack.

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* ColbertBump: Porter's popularity was rekindled after his song "Anything Goes" was featured in the ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' soundtrack.soundtracks.
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* ColbertBump: Porter's popularity was rekindled after his song "Anything Goes" was featured in the ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' soundtrack.
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* ReferencedBy: The 1990 charity album ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hot_+_Blue Red Hot + Blue]]'' revolved around various artists recording {{Cover Version}}s of Porter's material; the album itself is titled after Porter's musical ''Red, Hot & Blue''.

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* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: "I Get a Kick Out of You" originally contained a reference to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Charles. Porter changed the lyrics himself to remove the reference after her infant son was kidnapped and murdered.

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* CreatorBreakdown: Porter's legs were crushed in a polo accident in 1937, leaving him permanently disabled and in constant severe pain for the rest of his life. It took him ten years to get back to his previous level of productivity. Later in life, he had to [[AnArmAndALeg have a leg amputated]] (due to the previous injuries), and never wrote again.
* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: "I Get a Kick Out of You" originally contained a reference to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Charles. Porter changed the lyrics himself to remove the reference after her infant son was kidnapped and murdered.murdered.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The lyrics to the song "I Get a Kick Out of You" from the musical ''Anything Goes'' originally contained a reference to cocaine. When the musical was turned into a movie, Porter was forced to censor the lyrics.
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* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: "I Get a Kick Out of You" originally contained a reference to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Charles. Porter changed the lyrics himself to remove the reference after her infant son was kidnapped and murdered.

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