I can't get started

I Can't Get Started (with You) is a popular song composed by Vernon Duke in 1936 , with lyrics by Ira Gershwin .

The song was originally used in the Broadway musical Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 . Bob Hope sang the song in the musical . It later became a popular jazz standard . Bunny Berigans recorded two versions in 1936 and 1937 and the title has become his biggest hit. Berigan received a posthumous Grammy for its 1975 version .

Billie Holiday recorded the song with Lester Young in 1938. In 1942 Young played another version with his trio; besides Young, the trio consisted of pianist Nat King Cole and bassist Red Callender . Elvis Costello sang it in one of the last episodes of Marian McPartland's program Piano Jazz .

The song was played in the films Save the Tiger (1973) and Chinatown (1974).

Web links

• I Can't Get Started at Jazzstandards.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jeremy Wilson: I Can't Get Started . JazzStandards.com. (Engl.)
2. ^ Studwell, William Emmett; Baldin, Mark: The Big Band Reader: Songs favored by swing era orchestras and other popular ensembles . Pp. 21-22. Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0-7890-0914-5 . (Engl.)
3. ↑ Grammy Hall of Fame Award (English)
4. ↑ Ted Gioia: Billie Holiday & Lester Young: I Can't Get Started ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Jazz.com. (Engl.) 
5. ↑ Elvis Costello On Piano Jazz (2013)
6. ↑ Alan Kurtz: Bunny Berigan: I Can't Get Started ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Jazz.com. (Engl.)