Last week I defended Bob Dylan’s foray into the music of Frank Sinatra, but today’s random iTunes selection serves as a nice reminder that nobody sings a Sinatra song like Sinatra.

‘I Get a Kick Out of You’ is a Cole Porter tune originally written for the Broadway music Anything Goes. That was in the mid 1930s. Sinatra recorded two studio versions of the song, one in 1953 and one in 1962 (the latter is the version below). Funny that this song was already an oldie when Frank sang it for the first time.

Several versions of these lyrics exist across multiple recordings. The original tune made a reference to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, but it was changed after her baby was kidnapped. Another version contains a verse starting with “some get a kick from cocaine” but that was changed to comply with Hollywood’s Hays Code.

Sinatra didn’t record the Lindbergh version, but did lay down one with and one without the “cocaine” line. The cleaner version swaps in “some like the bop type refrain,” and that’s the one presented here.