Hear Frank Sinatra’s Unique Presentation of Cole Porter’s “I've Got You Under My Skin”

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

Just as in the case of Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields’ “The Way You Look Tonight,” so too with Cole Porter’s “I've Got You Under My Skin,” Sinatra made a great song even better. Not that Porter appreciated Sinatra’s ministrations. Porter apparently thought that his songs were already perfect, and that Sinatra was harming them! Sinatra would make slight improvisations in the lyrics, but his ad-libbing was, in Porter’s case, superior to the original.
 

I've Got You Under My Skin
Words & Music by Cole Porter

I've got you under my skin,
I've got you deep in the heart of me,
So deep in my heart,
That you're really a part of me,
I've got you under my skin.

I'd tried so not to give in,
I said to myself,
This affair never will go so well,
But why should I try to resist,
When Baby, I know so well,
I've got you under my skin.

I'd sacrifice anything come what might,
For the sake of having you near,
In spite of a warning voice,
That comes in the night and repeats,
Repeats in my ear.

Don't you know little fool,
You never can win,
Use your mentality,
Wake up to reality.

But each time that I do,
Just the thought of you,
Makes me stop before I begin,
‘Cause I've got you under my skin.

I would sacrifice anything,
Come what might,
For the sake of having you near,
In spite of the warning voice,
That comes in the night,
And repeats, how it yells in my ear.

Don't you know, little fool,
You never can win,
Why not use your mentality?
Step up, wake up to reality.

But each time I do just the thought of you,
Makes me stop just before I begin,
‘Cause I've got you under my skin,
Yes, I've got you under my skin.

And I like you, under my skin.
 


 

Uploaded on April 7, 2009, by Sinatra is the best.
 

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“Hear Frank Sinatra Sing Arlen & Mercer’s Come Rain or Shine”;

“Hear Frank Sinatra Sing the Quintessential Version of Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer’s ‘One for My Baby (and One More, for the Road)’”;

“Hear Frank Sinatra Sing the Classic Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer Torch Song, ‘Blues in the Night’”;

“Frank Sinatra: Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer’s Stormy Weather (Video)”;

“Frank Sinatra Live! Medley of The Gal That Got Away and It Never Entered My Mind, Performed in 1980 at Carnegie Hall (Great Quality Video of a Grand Performance!)”;

“Frank Sinatra: Here's That Rainy Day (Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Burke)”;

“Frank Sinatra’s Revelatory, 1962 Performance of Kern and Fields’ The Way You Look Tonight”;

“Paul Robeson?! Hear Frank Sinatra Give the Definitive Interpretation of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Ol’ Man River (1963)”;

“The Greatest Song Ever Written? Hear Frank Sinatra Sing Rodgers & Hammerstein's Soliloquy”;

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“Hear Frank Sinatra Sing Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn’s ‘Love and Marriage.’]