It's All Right with Me is a song composed by Cole Porter in 1953 for his Broadway musical Can-Can, a comedy set in turn-of-the-century Paris about the effort to legalize the can-can dance. The song was introduced on stage by Peter Cookson in the role of Judge Aristide Forestier, who sings it during a moment of romantic ambivalence. The composition is structured in a 72-bar AABA' form that expands beyond the typical 32-bar song length, giving the melody room to develop its distinctive emotional arc. Porter crafted the tune as a sophisticated torch song with an insistent rhythmic pulse, building the lyric around a catalog of negations, noting the wrong time, the wrong place, and the wrong face, while simultaneously yielding to temptation. The melody moves between major and minor tonalities, creating a tension between cool detachment and underlying passion that defines the song's character. Short, punchy melodic phrases give way to longer lines in the bridge, heightening the lyrical contrasts. Can-Can ran for 892 performances on Broadway, and the song quickly entered the Great American Songbook as a widely performed standard. It has attracted recordings from artists across genres, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Erroll Garner on Concert by the Sea in 1955, and Crystal Gayle, whose 1977 country adaptation demonstrated the composition's versatility beyond its jazz and cabaret origins.
