Red Hot + Blue


Red Hot + Blue is the first compilation album from the Red Hot Organization in the Red Hot Benefit Series. It features contemporary pop performers reinterpreting several songs of Cole Porter, and the title of the album originates from Cole Porter's musical Red, Hot and Blue.
Released in 1990, it sold over a million copies worldwide and was heralded as one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business. The accompanying ABC television special featured music videos for the songs. The clips portrayed the societal effects of AIDS.
Neneh Cherry's reworked version of "I've Got You Under My Skin" was released as the lead single for the album in the UK and Europe and reached number 25 in the UK Singles Chart.
Although no singles were released from the album in the United States the song "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", covered in a techno style by Thompson Twins, received regular airplay on San Francisco's Live 105. This was one of the two songs not to have a video counterpart. U2's cover of "Night and Day" reached #2 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and presaged the electronic sound the band would explore on Achtung Baby the following year.
In 2006 Red Hot + Blue was re-issued as a two-disc set including the original CD remastered, and a DVD of the video collection.

Track listing

  1. "I've Got You Under My Skin" performed by Neneh Cherry '
  2. "In the Still of the Night" performed by The Neville Brothers '
  3. "You Do Something to Me" performed by Sinéad O'Connor '
  4. "Begin the Beguine" performed by Salif Keita '
  5. "Love for Sale" performed by Fine Young Cannibals
  6. "Well, Did You Evah!" performed by Deborah Harry + Iggy Pop '
  7. "Miss Otis Regrets / Just One of Those Things" performed by The Pogues + Kirsty MacColl '
  8. "Don't Fence Me In" performed by David Byrne '
  9. "It's All Right with Me" performed by Tom Waits '
  10. "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" performed by Annie Lennox '
  11. "Night and Day" performed by U2 '
  12. "I Love Paris" performed by Les Négresses Vertes '
  13. "So in Love" performed by k.d. lang '
  14. "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" performed by Thompson Twins
  15. "Too Darn Hot" performed by Erasure '
  16. "I Get a Kick Out of You" performed by Jungle Brothers '
  17. "Down in the Depths" performed by Lisa Stansfield '
  18. "From This Moment On" performed by Jimmy Somerville '
  19. "After You, Who?" performed by Jody Watley '
  20. "Do I Love You?" performed by Aztec Camera '