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"Just One of Those Things" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the 1935 musical Jubilee.
The song was later featured in two Doris Day musical films, Lullaby of Broadway (1951) and Young at Heart (1954).
Influence in popular culture[]
The song has become a standard of the American Songbook, with many recordings having been made of it. Among artists who have recorded it are Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday,[1] Sarah Vaughan, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Lena Horne, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Louis Prima, Diana Krall, John Barrowman, Bryan Ferry, Lionel Hampton, Claude Bolling, Oscar Peterson, Sidney Bechet, Nellie McKay, Erin McKeown, Joan Morris, Jamie Cullum and The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl. Nat King Cole recorded it as the title track of his 1957 album Just One Of Those Things. Peggy Lee recorded it in a stylized arrangement to become a chart topping hit in the 1950s. Maurice Chevalier included it in a Cole Porter medley on his farewell album, released on his 80th birthday. Shirley Bassey recorded the song in 1963 for her EP In Other Words....
Holden Caulfield, the narrator of J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, is fond of the song, and remarks that even the "stinking band" in the hotel lounge "couldn't ruin it entirely."
In 1958, Polly Bergen and guests Dick Van Dyke and Carol Haney performed "Just One of Those Things" on her short-lived NBC variety show, The Polly Bergen Show.[2]
An episode of Get Smart alluded to the song: Agent 86 (posing as a mentally ill military officer) tells the psychiatrist he's investigating that he had been working on a space vehicle of his own: "Gossamer Wings," but lamented that "it was just one of those things."
The series finale of M*A*S*H took its name "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" from a line in the song.
See also[]
- List of 1930s jazz standards
References[]
- ↑ "Billie Holiday Discography". jazzdisco.org. http://www.jazzdisco.org/billie-holiday/discography/.
- ↑ "The Polly Bergen Show". Classic Television Archives. http://ctva.biz/US/MusicVariety/PollyBergenShow.htm. Retrieved January 9, 2011.
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