I Can't Get Started Bunny Berigan 1937

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I Can't Get Started
From "Ziegfeld Follies of 1936"
Foxtrot

Bunny Berigan And His Boys
Vocals: Bunny Berigan
Writers: Vernon Duke (m), Ira Gershwin (l)

Instrumentation: 4 Saxophones, 3 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, Guitar, Piano, String Bass and Drums
Bunny Berigan (Director, Trumpet, Vocalist)
Clyde Rounds (Saxophone)
Georgie Auld (Saxophone)
Joe Dixon (Saxophone)
Mike Doty (Saxophone)
Sonny Lee (Trombone)
Al George (Trombone)
Irving Goodman (Trumpet)
Steve Lipkins (Trumpet)
Joe Lipman (Piano)
Tom Morgan (Guitar)
Hank Wayland (Bass)
George Wettling (Drums)

Catalog Number: Victor 25728-A
Matrix Number: BS-017197 (Take [1]1R, 12", 78 RPM)
Place and Take Date: New York NY, RCA Studio 2, 155 East 24th Street, 1937-04-12
The recording on the other side of this disc: The Prisoner's Song

I Can't Get Started (1937)

I've flown around the world in a plane
I've settled revolutions in Spain
And the North Pole I have charted
Still I can't get started with you

On the golf course I'm under par
Metro Goldwyn have asked me to star
I've got a house a showplace
Still I can't get no place with you

'Cause you're so supreme
Lyrics I write of you I dream
Dream day and night of you
And I scheme just for the sight of you
Baby what good does it do

I've been consulted by Franklin D
Greta Garbo has had me to tea
Still I'm broken-hearted

'Cause I can't get started with you

In 1937 Bunny Berigan formed his new "Bunny Berigan and his Orchestra". He re-recorded his 1936 recording [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YRgWLzpZww] with a new arrangement using this band, and selected this then-little-known composition as his theme song.

Source for audio restoration: https://archive.org/details/78_i-cant-get-started_bunny-berigan-and-his-orchestra-ira-gershwin-vernon-duke-bunny_gbia0108543a