You Took Advantage of Me
You Took Advantage of Me is a pop song written by Richard Rodgers (music) and Lorenz Hart (lyrics) and released in 1928.
background
The Rodgers and Hart song You Took Advantage of Me was written for the musical comedy Present Arms , which premiered on April 26, 1928 in New York's Mansfield Theater. The song was presented by Busby Berkeley, Joyce Barner and a choir. The song, written in E major in the form AABA , was the play's only hit.
First recordings and later cover versions
The musicians who covered the song from April 1928 included Paul Whiteman (Victor, with Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer ), Sam Lanin ( cameo , with Scrappy Lambert, vocals), Miff Mole (Okeh), Bill Haid 's Cups ( Broadway), Vicent Lopez & His Casa Lopez Orchestra (Brunswick, vocals Dick Robertson ) and a duo recording by Irving Kaufman and Vaughn Deleath . You Took Advantage of Me
The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 405 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli (1937), Snoozer Quinn (1948), Art Tatum (1949), Roy Eldridge , Juny Christy (1956), Billie Holiday (1959), Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass (1976) and the Keith Jarrett Trio . Judy Garland sang You Took Advantage of Me in the musical film A Star Is Born (1954).