I've Got You Under My Skin

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"I've Got You Under My Skin"
Song by Frank Sinatra from the album Songs for Swingin' Lovers
Released	1956
Genre	Traditional pop
Length	3:40
Label	Capitol Records
Writer	Cole Porter
Composer	Cole Porter (Arranger-Conductor) Nelson Riddle
Producer	Voyle Gilmore
Songs for Swingin' Lovers track listing
"Our Love Is Here to Stay" (8) "I've Got You Under My Skin" (9) "I Thought About You" (10)

"I've Got You Under My Skin"
Single by The Four Seasons
from the album 2nd Vault of Gold Hits
B-side	Huggin' My Pillow (from the album Rag Doll)
Released	August 1966
Format	7"
Genre	Rock
Length	3:41
Label	Philips Records
Writer(s)	Cole Porter
Producer	Bob Crewe
The Four Seasons singles chronology
"On the Good Ship Lollipop" (as The Wonder Who?) (1966) "I've Got You Under My Skin" (1966) "Tell It to the Rain" (1966)

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

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 successful Duets album. It was also released as a B-side on U2's "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" single.

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

The 2009 action film Gamer, used the song as part of a musical number where Ken Castle, the villain, lipsynchs to the song as how he has the ability to control people with his technology.

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Cole Porter's "I've Got You Under My Skin" Piano Solo