I Get a Kick Out of You

"I Get a Kick out of You" is a song by Cole Porter, originally featured in the Broadway musical Anything Goes and the movie of the same name. Originally sung by Ethel Merman, it has been covered by performers including Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Marlene Dietrich, Cesare Siepi, Dinah Washington, Bobby Short, Louis Armstrong, Erroll Garner, Ella Fitzgerald, Mary Martin, Anita O`Day, Rosemary Clooney, Margaret Whiting, Django Reinhard... More

"I Get a Kick out of You" is a song by Cole Porter, originally featured in the Broadway musical Anything Goes and the movie of the same name. Originally sung by Ethel Merman, it has been covered by performers including Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Marlene Dietrich, Cesare Siepi, Dinah Washington, Bobby Short, Louis Armstrong, Erroll Garner, Ella Fitzgerald, Mary Martin, Anita O`Day, Rosemary Clooney, Margaret Whiting, Django Reinhardt, Gary Shearston, Jamie Cullum, The Living End, Dolly Parton, Joan Morris, Max Roach, Shirley Bassey, The Gutter Twins, Lisa Ekdahl, Nana Mouskouri and Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. The lyrics were first altered shortly after being written. The last verse originally went as follows: After the Lindbergh kidnapping, Porter changed the second and third lines to: In the 1936 movie version, alternative lyrics in the second verse were provided to replace a reference to the drug cocaine, which were not allowed due to the Hays Code. The original verse...

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