In the words of one obituary, she ???belonged to an elite group of singers who gave definitive shape to the works of the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, No??l Coward and other songwriters of the golden age.??? ??? Stephen Bourne, who wrote Welch???s biography Soft Lights & Sweet Music and was a great personal friend, put Welch forward for a plaque: ???I shall always remember Elisabeth as warm