PEGGY LEE - JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS

JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS

PEGGY LEE

SONGWRITER: COLE PORTER

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: IT'S A GOOD DAY

LABEL: EDEL RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1952

"Just One of Those Things" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the 1935 musical Jubilee.

Porter had written the score for Jubilee while on an extended sea cruise in the early part of 1935: however, in September 1935 while he was visiting a friend's farm in Ohio with Jubilee's librettist Moss Hart, the latter mentioned that the play's second act required an additional song, and Porter had "Just One of Those Things" completed by the following morning (he had previously used the title for a song intended for but not featured in the 1930 musical The New Yorkers—apart from the title the two songs are distinct). Porter's original lyric lacked an adjective for the line "a trip to the moon on gossamer wings": "gossamer" would be suggested by his friend, Ed Tauch.

"Just One of Those Things" was featured in two Doris Day musical films, Lullaby of Broadway (1951) and Young at Heart (1954), and also in the film version of Can-Can (1960) in which it's performed by Maurice Chevalier.

Peggy Lee (Jamestown, 26 de maio de 1920 — Bel Air, Los Angeles, 21 de janeiro de 2002), nome artístico de Norma Deloris Egstrom, foi uma cantora de jazz tradicional estadunidense conhecida por interpretar as canções "Is That All There Is?" e "Fever". Ao longo de uma carreira de mais de cinco décadas, Peggy gravou mais de 600 canções e chegou a ser comparada às mais importantes cantoras americanas de sua época, como Billie Holiday e Bessie Smith.

It was just one of those things

Just one of those crazy flings

One of those bells that now and then rings

Just one of those things

It was just one of those nights

One of those fabulous flights

A trip to the moon on gossamer wings

Just one of those things

If we'd thought a bit, of the end of it

When we started painting the town

We'd have been aware that our love affair

Was too hot, not to cool down

So goodbye, bye, bye, bye, dear and Amen

Here's hoping we meet now and then

It was great fun

But it was just one of those things

If we'd thought a bit, of the end of it

When we started painting the town

We'd have been aware that our love affair

Was too hot, not to cool down

So goodbye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye dear and Amen

Here's hoping we meet now and then

It was great fun

But it was just one of those things, just one of those things

Just one of those things, just one of those things