"You Do Something to Me" is a song written by Cole Porter. It is notable in that it was the first number in Porter's first fully integrated-book musical Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929). In the original production, the song was performed by Genevieve Tobin and William Gaxton, performing the roles of Looloo Carroll and Peter Forbes, respectively.

Background

There are two verses and two rounds of the chorus. The song has been described as "a tender prequel" to "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love," Porter's first popular song.

Recorded versions

The song has been revived and recorded by artists including:

  • According to the liner notes for It's De Lovely — The Authentic Cole Porter Collection, the line "the voodoo that you do so well" is quoted in the 1993 Salt-N-Pepa song "Shoop".[4]
  • The "voodoo" line is also quoted by Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) in the 1974 film Blazing Saddles as he exhorts his gang to attack a frontier town. The headline "Do Do that Voodoo" was used for a Paul Krugman editorial in The New York Times in 2011. The column was about Trickle Down economics. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  2. ↑ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  3. ↑ "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  4. ↑ Friedwald, Will (2004). Bluebird Presents: It's De Lovely - The Authentic Cole Porter Collection (liner notes). New York: BMG Music. p. 6."We don't even need the additional evidence of rock and country artists doing albums of standards that include Porter songs, or the recent rap hit "Shoop" which quotes the phrase "the voodoo that you do so well" from Porter's 1929 'You Do Something To Me.'"
  5. ↑ Do Do That Voodoo, Paul Krugman, New York Times, MAY 17, 2011


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