You Do Something to Me (Cole Porter song)
1929 song written by Cole Porter
"You Do Something to Me" is a song written by Cole Porter. It is notable in that it was the first number in Porter's first fully integrated-book musical Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929). In the original production, the song was performed by Genevieve Tobin and William Gaxton, performing the roles of Looloo Carroll and Peter Forbes, respectively.
Background
There are two verses and two rounds of the chorus. The song has been described as "a tender prequel" to "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love," Porter's first popular song.
Recorded versions
The song has been revived and recorded by artists including:
- Clicquot Club Eskimos, Harry Reser 1929
- Frank Sinatra on Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra (1950)[1]
- Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1955[2] for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the box set The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954-56) issued by Mosaic Records (catalog MD7-245) in 2009.[3]
- Lena Horne on the album It's Love (1955)[4]
- Perry Como on "So Smooth" (RCA Victor album) (1955).[5]
- Ella Fitzgerald, the First Lady of Song, recorded this song on both her albums: Cole Porter Songbook (1956)[6] and on her Pablo classic, Ella à Nice
- Doris Day on Day by Night (1957).[7]
- Sonny Rollins - The Bridge (1962).[8]
- Mario Lanza - You Do Something To Me (released in 1963).[9]
- Julie London - All Through the Night: Julie London Sings the Choicest of Cole Porter (1965)[10]
- Marlene Dietrich on Marlene Dietrich (1973)[11]
- Sinéad O'Connor on Red Hot + Blue (1990)[12]
- Bette Midler (1991)[13]
- João Gilberto on João (1991)[14]
- Howard McGillin and Susan Powell on Fifty Million Frenchmen (1991).[15]
- Susannah McCorkle- Easy to Love: The Songs of Cole Porter (1996)[16]
- Bryan Ferry on As Time Goes By (1999)[17]
Popular culture
- According to the liner notes for It's De Lovely — The Authentic Cole Porter Collection, the line "the voodoo that you do so well" is quoted in the 1993 Salt-N-Pepa song "Shoop".[18]
- The "voodoo" line is also quoted by Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) in the 1974 film Blazing Saddles as he exhorts his gang to attack a frontier town. The headline "Do Do that Voodoo" was used for a Paul Krugman editorial in The New York Times in 2011. The column was about Trickle Down economics.[19]
- The Bette Midler recording plays over the final credits of the 1991 film Scenes from a Mall, which starred her and Woody Allen.
References
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- ^ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
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- ^ Friedwald, Will (2004). Bluebird Presents: It's De Lovely - The Authentic Cole Porter Collection (liner notes). New York: BMG Music. p. 6."We don't even need the additional evidence of rock and country artists doing albums of standards that include Porter songs, or the recent rap hit "Shoop" which quotes the phrase "the voodoo that you do so well" from Porter's 1929 'You Do Something To Me.'"
- ^ Do Do That Voodoo, Paul Krugman, New York Times, MAY 17, 2011
External links
- Fifty Million Frenchmen at Internet Broadway Database
- "Sinéad O'Connor - You Do Something To Me (Official Music Video)" on YouTube
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