Cole Porter stated " I Get A Kick Out Of You."" In 1934, Cole Porter introduced one of his most famous Broadway scores. "Anything Goes" , in addition to the title song he also provided " All Through The Night" Blow, Gabriel Blow" "You're The Top" as well as " I Get A Kick Out Of You."
This song is comprised of a series of step-wise statements, a technique also favored by Richard Rodgers and it is one of Porter's best known and performed songs. Like many of Porter's songs, it is as popular as much for the witty lyrics as for the melody .Jazz musicians favor this song for its looseness and a structure that encourages improvising by jazz instrumentalists.
Frank Sinatra had a natural affinity for the lyrics of Cole Porter-they were sexy, saucy and often impudent, qualities that were quite natural for Sinatra to enact.. This version is an easy-going swinging arrangement with a smaller ensemble. The way Frank stretches out the word " fabulous" at the end of the verse singing " Your " ....FABULOUS face is indicative of what is to follow inn the main chorus. Every time Sinatra sings the word " kick" as in " I get a kick" out of you" there is a loud drum accent right after the word. It helps further emphasize Porter's desire to show how much the singer really gets an emotional boost out of the person to whom the song is directed.
This is Sinatra after his signing by Capitol Records and beginning to work with Nelson Riddle and Billy May whose arrangements were much more contemporary and swinging than those of Gordon Jenkins and some earlier arrangers from the Columbia years.
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