I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU
Music and lyrics: Cole Porter
Year: 1934
Origin of the song
Cole Porter wrote ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’ in 1931 for the Broadway musical Star Dust, which never got to be produced.
Some years later, he included the song in another musical called Anything Goes, which was released on 21 November 1934 in the Alvin Theatre of New York. The libretto was based on a Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse’s play, revised by Howard Linsay and Russell Crouse. The music and the lyrics were Cole Porter’s, the stage management director was Howard Lindsay, the choreographer, Robert Alton, and the main artists, William Gaxton, Ethel Merman, and Victor Moore. In the first act, Gaxton and Merman sang ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’. Other songs included in the musical were ‘Anything Goes’, ‘You’re the Top’, and ‘All Through the Night’.
The musical was very successful among the audience and the critics and it has four hundred and twenty performances. Right after being withdrawn from the theatres, Paramount Pictures produces a cinema version, Anything Goes (1936), directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles, and Ida Lupino. And, twenty years later, a new version under the same title, directed by Robert Lewis with Crosby, Donald O’Connor, Zizi Jeanmaire and Mitzi Gaynor, that wasn’t released in Spain.
Versions in the top charts
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PERFORMERS |
DATE OF RECORDING |
DAY OF
ENTRANCE |
PERMANENCE WEEKS |
HIGH POSITION REACHED |
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1934.10.26 |
1934.12.15 |
11 |
3 |
Bob Lawrence (voc) |
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Leo Reisman Orchestra |
1934.11.23 |
1935.01.19 |
1 |
20 |
Sally Singer (voc) |
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Ethel Merman |
1934.12.04 |
1935.01.05 |
5 |
12 |
Ethel Merman (voc), Johnny Green Orchestra |
Jazz. Outstanding performances
Instrumental
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PERFORMERS |
DATE OF RECORDING |
MUSICIANS WHO TOOK PART IN THE RECORDING
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1944.12.18 |
Erroll Garner (p), John Simmons (b), Harold 'Doc' West (d) |
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1950.01.03 |
Artie Shaw (cl, dir), Don Fagerquist, Don Paladino, Dale Pierce, Victor Ford (tp), Sonny Russo, Porky Cohen, Freddy Zito, Bart Varsalona (tb), Herb Steward, Frank Socolow (as), Al Cohn, Zoot Sims (ts), Danny Bank (bars), Gil Barrios (p), Jimmy Raney (g), Dick Niveson (b), Irv Kluger (d) |
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1950.10.13 |
Red Norvo (vib), Tal Farlow (g), Charles Mingus (b) |
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1952.12.04 |
Benny Carter (as), Oscar Peterson (p), Barney Kessell (g), Ray Brown (b), J.C. Heard (d) |
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1954.03.31 |
Charlie Parker (as), Walter Bishop Jr. (p), Jerome Darr (g), Teddy Kotick (b), Roy Haynes (d) |
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1954.04.27 |
Randy Weston (p), Sam Gill (b) |
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1954.08.05 |
Clifford Brown (tp), Harold Land (ts), Richie Powell (p), George Morrow (b), Max Roach (d) |
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1955.05.23 |
Ahmad Jamal (p), Ray Crawford (g), Israel Crosby (b) |
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1957.08.08 |
Billy Taylor (p), Earl May (b), Ed Thigpen (d) |
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1957.09.03 |
Ernie Henry (as), Wynton Kelly (p), Wilbur Ware (b), Philly Joe Jones (d) |
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1959.09.05 |
Paul Desmond (as), Jim Hall (g), Percy Heath (b), Connie Kay (d) |
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1974.04.74 |
Earl Hines (p) |
Vocal
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PERFORMERS |
DATE OF RECORDING |
MUSICIANS WHO TOOK PART IN THE RECORDING
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1947.11.08 |
Sarah Vaughan (voc), Ted Dale Orchestra |
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1953.11.06 |
Frank Sinatra (voc), Nelson Riddle Orchestra |
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1955.03.15 |
Dinah Washington (voc), Clark Terry (tp), Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Paul Quinichette (ts), Cecil Payne (bars), Wynton Kelly (p), Barry Galbraith (g), Keter Betts (b), Jimmy Cobb (d), Quincy Jones (dir) |
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Nat King Cole |
1955.08.23 |
Nat Cole (voc, p), Conrad Gozzo (tp), Francis L. Howard, Murray McEachern, James Priddy, George Mortimore Roberts (tb), Juan Tizol (vtb), Harry G. Klee, Wilbur Schwartz, Bill Smith (r), Bill Miller (p), John Collins (g), Charles P. Harris (b), Lee Young (d), string section, Nelson Riddle (dir) |
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1955.08.25 |
Billie Holiday (voc), Harry 'Sweets' Edison (tp), Benny Carter (as), Jimmy Rowles (cel), Barney Kessel (g), John Simmons (b), Larry Bunker (d) |
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1956.01.23 |
Chris Connor (voc), John Lewis (p), Barry Galbraith (g), Oscar Pettiford (b), Connie Kay (d) |
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1956.02.09 |
Ella Fitzgerald (voc), Barney Kessel (g), Buddy Bregman Orchestra |
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1957.07.31 |
Louis Armstrong (tp, voc), Oscar Peterson (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown (b), Louis Bellson (d) |
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1957.10.14 |
Tony Bennett (voc), Nat Adderley (tp), Al Cohn (ts), Ralph Sharon (p), Milt Hinton (b), Art Blakey (d) |
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1959.04.09 |
Anita O'Day (voc), Billy May Orchestra |
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Susannah McCorkle |
1986.12.10 |
Susannah McCorkle (voc), Gene Bertoncini (g), Benny Aronov (p), Steve LaSpina (b), Joe Cocuzzo (d) |
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Mel Tormé with Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass |
1995.05.05 |
Mel Tormé (voc), Rob McConnell (vtb, dir), Arnie Chycoski, Steve McDade, Guido Basso, Kevin Turkott, John McLeod (tp, fis), Alaistair Kay, Bob Livingston, Jerry Johnson, Ernie Pattison (tb), Gary Pattison, James MacDonald (tpa), Moe Koffman, John Johnson (ss, as, cl, fl), Alex Dean (ts, cl, fl), Rick Wilkins (ts, cl), Robert Leonard (cl, bars, fl), David Restivo (p), Reg Schwager (g), Jim Vivian (b), Ted Warren (d), Brian Leonard (per) |
On cinemas
The song 'I Get A Kick Out Of You' is included in the soundtrack of the following movies:
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ORIGINAL TITLE |
TITLE IN SPAIN |
YEAR OF PRODUCTION |
PERFORMERS OF THE SONG IN THE FILM |
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Anything Goes |
Todo vale |
1936 |
Ethel Merman |
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High Sierra |
El último refugio |
1941 |
A recording is playing |
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Air Force |
El bombardero heroico / Fuerzas aéreas |
1943 |
Background music |
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Night And Day |
Noche y día |
1946 |
Ginny Simms with a chorus |
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Three Secrets |
Tres secretos |
1950 |
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Anything Goes |
Todo vale |
1956 |
Zizi Jeanmaire |
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Blazing Saddles |
sillas de montar calientes |
1974 |
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A Woman Under the Influence |
Una mujer bajo la influencia |
1974 |
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Pennies from Heaven |
Dinero caído del cielo |
1981 |
Steve Martin |
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Evil Under the Sun |
Muerte bajo el sol |
1982 |
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Little Man Tate |
El pequeño Tate |
1991 |
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Children of the Revolution |
Hijos de la revolución |
1996 |
F. Murray Abraham, Paul Livingston, Steve Abbott and Dennis Watkins |
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Love’s Labour’s Lost |
Trabajos de amor perdidos |
2000 |
Timothy Spall |
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El embrujo de Shanghai |
El embrujo de Shanghai |
2002 |
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Being Julia |
Conociendo a Julia |
2004 |
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra |
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De-Lovely |
De-Lovely |
2004 |
Diana Krall |
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The Gambler |
El jugador |
2014 |
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