TOTALLY COLE: Charity rock collections have become...

TOTALLY COLE: Charity rock collections have become pop music’s hottest new cottage industry. The latest? A superstar compilation of Cole Porter cover songs, which Chrysalis Records is releasing Oct. 30 as a benefit for AIDS Research and Relief. Put together by Leigh Black and John Carlin, the project features a host of inspired remakes: U2’s grand “Night and Day,” Sinead O’Connor’s seductive “You Do Something to Me,” k.d. lang’s torchy “So in Love,” David Byrne’s percussive “Don’t Fence Me In,” the Pogues’ feisty “Miss Otis Regrets,” Erasure’s “Too Darn Hot” and the Fine Young Cannibals’ silky “Love for Sale.” (Other artists on board include the Jungle Brothers, Tom Waits, Jody Watley, Les Negresses Vertes, and Deborah Harry and Iggy Pop, who do a rambunctious duet of “Well Did You Evah!”) Most of the above stars will be featured in music-video performances of these tunes on a 90-minute ABC-TV special that airs Dec. 1. (Wim Wenders directed U2’s clip ,while Percy Adlon did k.d. lang and Jim Jarmusch shot the Waits video.)