I've Got You Under My Skin

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"I've Got You Under My Skin" is a song written by Cole Porter. It became a signature song for Frank Sinatra, and became a top 10 hit for The Four Seasons in 1966. It has also been recorded by Louis Prima & Keely Smith, Cab Calloway, Josephine Baker, Lee Wiley, Steve Barton, Michael Bolton, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, Dinah Washington,Maysa, Michael Bublé, Katharine McPhee, James Darren, Cesare Siepi, Al Bowlly, Neneh Cherry, Bill Evans, Jim Hall and many others. Cherry's rendition was recorded for the Red Hot + Blue charity album, and reached number 25 in the UK pop charts.

Written in 1936, it was introduced in the Eleanor Powell MGM musical, Born to Dance in which it was performed by Virginia Bruce. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song that year.

Sinatra first sang the song on his weekly radio show in 1946, as the second part of a medley with "Easy to Love". He put his definitive stamp on the tune ten years later, in a swinging big-band version that built to successive crescendos on the back of an arrangement by Nelson Riddle. Riddle was a fan of Maurice Ravel, and has said that this arrangement was inspired by the "Bolero"

Sinatra aficionados usually rank this as one of his finest collaborations with Riddle's orchestra. An insistent saxophone section propels the chart which climaxes in a startlingly out-of-control slide trombone solo by Milt Bernhart. Appreciating the excitement of the arrangement, Sinatra usually included the song in his concerts thereafter.^[1]

In 1963, Sinatra re-recorded "I've Got You Under My Skin" for the album Sinatra's Sinatra, an album of re-recordings of Sinatra's personal favorites. This time the trombone solo was by Dick Nash because Bernhart was booked for another session.

In 1993, Sinatra once again recorded "I've Got You Under My Skin", this time as a duet with Bono of U2, for inclusion on Sinatra's commercially very successful Duets album. It was also released as a B-side of U2's "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" single.

Stan Freberg produced a 1952 parody of "I've Got You Under My Skin."

In 1976, Gloria Gaynor made a disco version of "I've Got You Under My Skin" on her album I've Got You (Polydor PD-1-6063)

References

1. ^ Obituary: Milt Bernhart, trombonist who got under Sinatra's skin, The Guardian, London, 4 February 2004

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