Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love

"Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" (1928) is the first, possibly the best, of Cole Porter's famous "list songs." It was contributed to the pot-pourri "Paris," a hit song in a show that was also a hit, a suggestive and droll string of inventive comparisons and examples, proposterous pairings and double-entendres, dropping famous names and events, drawing unexpectedly from highbrow and popular culture.

Related Topics:
Cole Porter - Double-entendre

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The song has been covered many times since, although usually excerpting only a limited portion of the original lyrics. In the 1950s, Noel Coward wrote his own lyrics for the song for his cabaret performances in Las Vegas and New York.

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A hard rock version performed by Joan Jet and Paul Westerburg was used as the theme song in the 1995 movie Tank Girl; the song is also performed by star Lori Petty in a musical revue number within the film. It was also performed by singer Alanis Morissette (herself a writer of "list songs") in the movie De-Lovely.

Related Topics:
Hard rock - Joan Jet - Paul Westerburg - Tank Girl - Lori Petty - Alanis Morissette - De-Lovely

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The 1933 film Let's Do It has songs by Harold Arlen instead.

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