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"'''I Can't Get Started'''", also known as "'''I Can't Get Started with You'''" or "'''I Can't Get Started (With You)'''", is a ]. It was written in 1936 by ] (music) and ] (lyrics) and introduced that year in the revue '']'', where it was performed by ] and ].<ref name="lyrics-on-several-occasions">{{cite book | last=Gershwin | first=Ira | title=Lyrics on Several Occasions | edition=First | location=New York | publisher=Knopf | year=1959 | oclc=538209}}</ref>
"'''I Can't Get Started'''" is the twenty-second episode of the second season of the television series '']''. It originally aired on ], ].


] and his Orchestra recorded it and it had a bit of popularity, rising briefly to 14th place on the recording charts.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Whitburn|first1=Joel|title=Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954|date=1986|publisher=Record Research Inc|location=Wisconsin, USA|isbn=0-89820-083-0|page=|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/253}}</ref> ]'s 1937 version was inducted into the ].
==Plot==
While Sookie's wedding draws nearer, Lorelai finally gives in, visiting Luke in the diner to apologize for holding him responsible for Jess' actions. Christopher comes to ] to see the removal of Rory's cast, and decides to stay for the duration of Sookie's wedding. Staying at the inn, he reveals to Lorelai that he is no longer seeing Sherry, and they spend a romantic evening together, both convinced they have successfully rekindled their relationship. Meanwhile, Paris is running for Student Body President, and when the outlook from Louise and Madeline's surveys looks grim, she commissions Rory as her Vice-President so they can run together as "Geller and Gilmore". Although she subsequently has to spend six weeks in Washington at a leaders' camp, Rory agrees and they win the election.


==Recordings==
At Sookie's wedding, when Lorelai breaks the news that she and Christopher are back together, Rory is glad to introduce a father figure into her life and Emily is delighted as she believes Lorelai and Christopher were always meant to be together. Rory meets Jess in the gardens by the wedding, as he has come back to stay with Luke. She impulsively gives him a passionate kiss, but runs away, flustered. Lorelai and Christopher's reunion is short-lived when he receives a call from Sherry that she is pregnant, and decides he ought to be with her, and leaves. Rory returns to Lorelai just before walking down the aisle as bridesmaids and tells Lorelai that she will be taking the course in Washington, unaware that Christopher is returning to Boston.
Ira Gershwin noted in 1959 that "The sheet-music sale of the song never amounted to much... but an early recording by Bunny Berigan—considered by jazz devotees a sort of classic in its field—may have been a challenge (or incentive) for the great number of recordings that have followed. Not a year has gone by, in the past fifteen or so, that up to a dozen or more new recordings haven't been issued."<ref name="lyrics-on-several-occasions"/>

===Bunny Berigan===
], a trumpeter with ] and ], started a band in 1937 and chose "I Can't Get Started" as his theme song.<ref>Simon, George T., The Big Bands, 4th Edition, Introduction by Frank Sinatra, Schirmer Books, New York, 1981 p. 88</ref> He had been performing the song during the previous year at a club in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://swingandbeyond.com/2016/10/05/i-cant-get-started-1937-bunny-berigan/|title="I Can't Get Started" (1937) Bunny Berigan|first=Mike|last=Zirpolo|website=Swingandbeyond.com|date=October 5, 2016|access-date=May 31, 2021}}</ref> He made a recording for ] on April 13, 1936, <ref>{{cite web|title=The Online Discographical Project|url=http://www.78discography.com/VOC3000.htm|website=78discography.com|access-date=June 3, 2017}}</ref> but gradually he made subtle changes in the arrangement. After forming his band, he recorded "I Can't Get Started" again, this time for ].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Online Discographical Project|url=http://www.78discography.com/vic36000.html|website=78discography.com|access-date=June 3, 2017}}</ref>

Jazz trumpeter ] noted the changes that had been made since the Vocalion recording. "An introduction—an extended cadenza over four different sustained chords in the key of C—had been added by this time, but otherwise Berigan's routine had not changed since the Vocalion recording. But whereas the Vocalion comes across as a virtuoso performance of a great song, the Victor version presents itself as a kind of concerto, a tour de force for a trumpeter of imagination and daring to have an impeccable command of his instrument."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sudhalter|first1=Richard M.|title=Giants of Jazz - Bunny Berigan|date=1982|publisher=Time-Life Records|page=43}}</ref>

The Berigan band's recordings of "I Can't Get Started" and "The Prisoner's Song" were issued together on the twelve-inch Victor record 36208, and were a part of an album of four such records entitled ''A Symposium of Swing''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/c28|title=78 Record: Various Artists - Sing, Sing, Sing - Part 1 (1937)|access-date=May 31, 2021|website=45worlds.com}}</ref> An edited version was created by Victor on December 4, 1937, and issued as 25728A.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Online Discographical Project|url=http://www.78discography.com/vic25500.html|website=78discography.com|access-date=June 3, 2017}}</ref>

The recording was a hit and reached number 10 on the chart.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Whitburn|first1=Joel|title=Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954|date=1986|publisher=Record Research|location=Wisconsin|isbn=0-89820-083-0|page=|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/52}}</ref> In 1975, Berigan's 1937 recording of "I Can't Get Started" was inducted into the ].<ref>{{cite web |title=Grammy Hall of Fame |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/hall-of-fame |website=Grammy.com |access-date=March 21, 2020}}</ref>

] recorded it on September 15, 1938.<ref>{{cite web|title=Billie Holiday Discography|url=http://www.jazzdisco.org/billie-holiday/discography/|website=Jazzdisco.org|access-date=June 2, 2017}}</ref>

===Other recordings===
* ] – '']'' (1961)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/piano-in-the-foreground-mw0001955818|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=December 11, 2024}}</ref>
* Paul Bley Trio – (]/]/]) – '']'' (1953)<ref name="standards">{{cite book |last1=Gioia |first1=Ted |title=The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York City |isbn=978-0-19-993739-4 |pages=155–158}}</ref>
* ] with ] – ''Ballads and Blues'' (1994)<ref name="standards" />
* ] – '']'' (1975)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/happy-time-mw0000674713|title=Happy Time - Roy Eldridge &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits|access-date=May 31, 2021|website=]}}</ref>
* ] - ''Chameleon'' (1974)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/1422679-Maynard-Ferguson-Chameleon|website=www.discogs.com|accessdate=December 12, 2024}}</ref>
* ] – '']'' (1962)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/ella-swings-gently-with-nelson-mw0000099146|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=December 12, 2024}}</ref>, and '']'' (1973)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/newport-jazz-festival-live-at-carnegie-hall-mw0000201777|title=Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall - Ella Fitzgerald &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits|access-date=May 31, 2021|website=]}}</ref>
* ] with ] – '']'' (1987)<ref name="standards" />
* ] – (1945)<ref name="standards" />
* ], ], ] – '']'' (1980)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/tivoli-gardens-copenhagen-denmark-mw0000191918|title=Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark - Stéphane Grappelli &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits |access-date=May 31, 2021|website=]}}</ref>
* ] with ] – (1938)<ref name="standards" />
* ] with ] and ] – '']'' (1956)<ref name="standards" />
* ] with ] – ''Live at the Village Vanguard'' (1994)<ref name="standards" />
* ] with John Handy – '']'' (1959)<ref name="standards" />
* ] – '']'' (1986)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/beauty-and-the-beast-mw0000196987|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=December 12, 2024}}</ref>
* Joe Pass – '']'' (1983, recorded in 1973)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/virtuoso-no-4-mw0000105418|title=Virtuoso No. 4 - Joe Pass &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits |access-date=May 31, 2021|website=]}}</ref>
* ] – ''Pastel Moods'' (1956)<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000769935|title=Pastel Moods by Oscar Peterson}}</ref> and '']'' (1957)<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000903213|title=Soft Sands}}</ref>
* ] – '']'' (1957)<ref name="standards" />
*] – '']'' (1959) (with altered lyrics)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mustazza |first=Leonard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=otIHAQAAMAAJ&q=sinatra+i+can't+get+started |title=Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture: Essays on an American Icon |date=1998-12-09 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-0-275-96495-5 |language=en}}</ref>
* ] – 1946<ref name="standards" />
* ] with ] and ] (1942)<ref name="standards" />
* Lester Young with Oscar Peterson – '']'' (1954)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/lester-young-with-the-oscar-peterson-trio-mw0000329484|title=Lester Young With the Oscar Peterson Trio - Lester Young &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits |access-date=May 31, 2021|website=]}}
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* ] – '']'' (2002)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/pointless-nostalgic-mw0000039358|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=December 10, 2024}}</ref>

• Jackie Gleason Orchestra —Music, Martinis and Memories (1954)


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Latest revision as of 19:39, 29 December 2024

Song
"I Can't Get Started"
Song
Published1936 by Chappell & Co.
Composer(s)Vernon Duke
Lyricist(s)Ira Gershwin

"I Can't Get Started", also known as "I Can't Get Started with You" or "I Can't Get Started (With You)", is a popular song. It was written in 1936 by Vernon Duke (music) and Ira Gershwin (lyrics) and introduced that year in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, where it was performed by Bob Hope and Eve Arden.

Hal Kemp and his Orchestra recorded it and it had a bit of popularity, rising briefly to 14th place on the recording charts. Bunny Berigan's 1937 version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Recordings

Ira Gershwin noted in 1959 that "The sheet-music sale of the song never amounted to much... but an early recording by Bunny Berigan—considered by jazz devotees a sort of classic in its field—may have been a challenge (or incentive) for the great number of recordings that have followed. Not a year has gone by, in the past fifteen or so, that up to a dozen or more new recordings haven't been issued."

Bunny Berigan

Bunny Berigan, a trumpeter with Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, started a band in 1937 and chose "I Can't Get Started" as his theme song. He had been performing the song during the previous year at a club in New York City. He made a recording for Vocalion on April 13, 1936, but gradually he made subtle changes in the arrangement. After forming his band, he recorded "I Can't Get Started" again, this time for Victor.

Jazz trumpeter Dick Sudhalter noted the changes that had been made since the Vocalion recording. "An introduction—an extended cadenza over four different sustained chords in the key of C—had been added by this time, but otherwise Berigan's routine had not changed since the Vocalion recording. But whereas the Vocalion comes across as a virtuoso performance of a great song, the Victor version presents itself as a kind of concerto, a tour de force for a trumpeter of imagination and daring to have an impeccable command of his instrument."

The Berigan band's recordings of "I Can't Get Started" and "The Prisoner's Song" were issued together on the twelve-inch Victor record 36208, and were a part of an album of four such records entitled A Symposium of Swing. An edited version was created by Victor on December 4, 1937, and issued as 25728A.

The recording was a hit and reached number 10 on the chart. In 1975, Berigan's 1937 recording of "I Can't Get Started" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Billie Holiday recorded it on September 15, 1938.

Other recordings

• Jackie Gleason Orchestra —Music, Martinis and Memories (1954)

See also

References

  1. ^ Gershwin, Ira (1959). Lyrics on Several Occasions (First ed.). New York: Knopf. OCLC 538209.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Wisconsin, USA: Record Research Inc. p. 253. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
  3. Simon, George T., The Big Bands, 4th Edition, Introduction by Frank Sinatra, Schirmer Books, New York, 1981 p. 88
  4. Zirpolo, Mike (October 5, 2016). ""I Can't Get Started" (1937) Bunny Berigan". Swingandbeyond.com. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  5. "The Online Discographical Project". 78discography.com. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
  6. "The Online Discographical Project". 78discography.com. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
  7. Sudhalter, Richard M. (1982). Giants of Jazz - Bunny Berigan. Time-Life Records. p. 43.
  8. "78 Record: Various Artists - Sing, Sing, Sing - Part 1 (1937)". 45worlds.com. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  9. "The Online Discographical Project". 78discography.com. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
  10. Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Wisconsin: Record Research. p. 52. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
  11. "Grammy Hall of Fame". Grammy.com. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
  12. "Billie Holiday Discography". Jazzdisco.org. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  13. "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 11, 2024.
  14. ^ Gioia, Ted (2012). The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. New York City: Oxford University Press. pp. 155–158. ISBN 978-0-19-993739-4.
  15. "Happy Time - Roy Eldridge | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  16. "www.discogs.com". www.discogs.com. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  17. "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  18. "Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall - Ella Fitzgerald | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  19. "Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark - Stéphane Grappelli | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  20. "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  21. "Virtuoso No. 4 - Joe Pass | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  22. Pastel Moods by Oscar Peterson at AllMusic
  23. Soft Sands at AllMusic
  24. Mustazza, Leonard (1998-12-09). Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture: Essays on an American Icon. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-275-96495-5.
  25. "Lester Young With the Oscar Peterson Trio - Lester Young | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  26. "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 10, 2024.

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