I've Got You Under My Skin

I've Got You Under My Skin is a song by Cole Porter, he for the singer Virginia Bruce as part of his compositions for dancing born with James Stewart and Eleanor Powell wrote for the film in the lead roles in 1936. The song received a 1937 Oscar nomination for Best Song. Bruce published in the same year, the first commercial record of the song, arranged by Roger Edens on the label Brunswick Records.

Within months, the song reached the same in the sockets of several artists ( among others, Frances Langford, Jimmy Dorsey and Al Bowlly / Ray Noble) on the front of the charts and became a nationally known standard used by many eminent vocalists as well as by numerous dance bands is presented. For classics from the Great American Songbook the piece mainly by Frank Sinatra.

The song with Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra, who performed the song since 1944 in his repertoire, played on January 12, 1956 for his album Songs for Swingin ' Lovers ( Capitol Records ) in the studio I've Got You Under My Skin a. The world has become known arrangement got Sinatra's longtime Hausarrangeur Nelson Riddle, who also conducted the orchestra for the recording. Riddle had completed the orchestration until the night before, and his copyist Vern Yocum was still working on the way to the studio of reproduction.

Part of the arrangement is a striking trombone solo, played by Milt Bernhart. The strategy outlined by Riddle to improvise harmonic progression, on the Bernhart built his part, the composition came from 23 Degrees North, 23 Degrees West of Stan Kenton from the year 1952. After the release of Songs For Swingin ' Lovers in March 1956, the song was of a known songs of Sinatra, also due to the fact that Sinatra took him from now on, until in his last stage in 1994, without a break in his concert repertoire and afforded him this way about 2000 times.

There are also eight other studio remakes, namely from the years 1957 and 1958 (both ABC ), 1963 (Reprise ), 1965 and 1973 (both CBS ), 1976 and 1977 (each in turn ABC ) and finally in 1993 (again, Capitol ), the latter a ( electronically produced ) duet with Bono, the frontman of the group U2. For all of these recordings Sinatra remained at Riddle arrangement. 1998 Capitol recording of 1956 was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame.

Other Artists

Other interpretations exist by countless artists of all disciplines, but especially in the area of jazz and the Great American Songbook. Besides the above mentioned Erstinterpreten of 1936/37, include this in the English section include:

Porter's song has been translated into numerous languages. From the ranks of German artists there are, among other versions of

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