Hutch Sings Cole Porter, Noel Coward and Others

Also on the Conifer label we get the more familiar voice of Hutch with a set of standard numbers by Noël & Cole. Although it is becoming increasingly fashionable to batch these two composers together on disc and in cabaret in London and New York, I am less and less certain it makes much sense.
 
True, they were contemporaries, distant friends, both gay icons inclined to sublimate their sexuality in caustically witty lyrics which seem to have come before the music as often as not; but beyond that and a few similar titles (Mrs Wentworth Brewster/Mrs Lowsborough-Goodby, etc) they really did not have a lot in common, Coward being so quintessentially English and Porter so indubitably American.