The song of the day for Sunday, April 21, 2024, is “Just One Of Those Things.”

About This Song

Cole Porter wrote “Just One of Those Things” for the 1935 musical Jubilee. It’s one of Porter’s most popular songs and has been recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, and Frank Sinatra. In American Popular Song Alec Wilder spoke of the lyric as ‘a trip to the moon on gossamer wings’ and “that it seems impossible that it wasn’t sitting on his piano, waiting for Porter even before he wrote the lyric.” It has a certain literary fame as well: Holden Caulfield, in Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye likes the song and notes that even the “stinking band” in the hotel lounge “couldn’t ruin it entirely.”

About This Version

Tony Bennett recorded “Just One of Those Things” on October 14, 1957, for his third album, The Beat of My Heart, featuring an arrangement by Ralph Sharon. Bennett invited several percussionists to play on the album; Al Blakey was featured in this song.

“Just One Of Those Things,” as well as The Beat of My Heart, is available on Apple Music.