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  • Pick Yourself Up
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  • Ella Fitzgerald songs
  • The Muppets songs
  • 1936 songs
  • Fred Astaire songs
  • Songs with lyrics by Dorothy Fields
  • Songs with music by Jerome Kern
  • Great Depression songs
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  • %22Pick Yourself Up%22 is a popular song composed in 1936 by Jerome Kern, with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. It has a verse and chorus, as well as a third section, though the third section is often omitted in recordings. Like most popular songs of the era it features a 32 bar chorus though with an extended coda and its rhyming scheme is AABA style, with some variations among the A sections.The song was written for the film Swing Time (1936), where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Ginger plays a dance instructor whom Fred follows into her studio; he pretends to have %22two left feet%22 in order to get her to dance with him. Fred sings the verse to her and she responds with the chorus. After an interlude, they dance to the tune. (Author John Mueller has written their dance %22is one of the very greatest of Astaire's playful duets: boundlessly joyous, endlessly re-seeable.%22)Astaire would also record the song on his own that year for the Brunswick label.The tune served as the theme song for the short-lived 1955–56 prime time television variety series The Johnny Carson Show.Nancy Walker performed the song on an episode of %22The Muppet Show%22 with Fozzie Bear.On 20 January 2009, the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, in his inauguration speech, quoted the lyrics in the song, saying %22Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.%22Frank Rich linked the lyric to Fields and the movie in The New York Times, writing that it was %22one subtle whiff of the Great Depression%22 in the address.Nat King Cole's version of the song was also featured in an episode of Breaking Bad, titled %22Gliding Over All.%22
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  • Pick Yourself Up
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