"You Do Something to Me" was the first song in Cole Porter's first fully integrated-book musical, Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929). In the original production, Genevieve Tobin and William Gaxton performed the song. They played the roles of Looloo Carroll and Peter Forbes, respectively.
Background
The song includes two verses and two choruses. It is known as a gentle earlier version of "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love," which was Porter's first widely popular song.
Recorded versions
The song has been recorded by artists including:
- The Clicquot Club Eskimos led by Harry Reser (1929)
- Lena Horne on It's Love (1955)
- Perry Como on So Smooth (1955)
- Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1955 for his radio show. It was later included in The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954–56) (Mosaic Records MD7-245, 2009).
- Frank Sinatra on Sinatra’s Swingin’ Session!!! (1961)
- Ella Fitzgerald on Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (1956) and Ella à Nice (recorded 1971, released 1982)
- Sinéad O'Connor on Red Hot + Blue (1990)
- Bryan Ferry on As Time Goes By (1999)
- Doris Day
- Johnny Mathis
- Marlene Dietrich
Popular culture
- In the 1974 movie Blazing Saddles, the character Hedley Lamarr (played by Harvey Korman) says, "the voodoo that you do so well" while telling his gang to attack a frontier town.
- In the 1991 movie Scenes from a Mall, Bette Midler’s version of the song plays during the end credits. The movie features Bette Midler and Woody Allen.
- The phrase "the voodoo that you do so well" is used in the 1993 Salt-N-Pepa song "Shoop."
- In 2011, economist Paul Krugman wrote an article for The New York Times titled "Do Do that Voodoo." The article discussed trickle-down economics, an economic idea where benefits for the wealthy trickle down to others.