Songfacts®:

• In this standard written by Cole Porter, the singer can't get a dopamine release through alcohol, flying, or even cocaine. The only thing that will give her that kick is her special guy and his fabulous face. It's a great example of Porter's clever wordplay - few songwriter could write "ennui" into a lyric:
  
  When I'm out on a quiet spree
  Fighting vainly the old ennui
• The words of this song were altered twice, the second time because of the censor, but the first time because of a human tragedy.
  
  "I Get A Kick Out Of You" was published in November 1934 and introduced in Anything Goes by Ethel Merman, although Porter actually wrote it for the 1931 musical Star Dust
  
  According to George Eells in The Life That He Led: A Biography of Cole Porter, the words included:
  
  I wouldn't care
  For those nights in the air
  That the fair
  Mrs. Lindbergh went through
  
  This was an obvious allusion to the air ace Charles Lindbergh, whose exploits have been immortalized by Al Stewart and scandalized by Woody Guthrie in equal measure. But in March 1932, the Lindberghs' baby son was kidnapped and murdered; this resulted in a sensational and controversial trial that led to the 1936 execution of German immigrant Bruno Hauptmann.
  
  Obviously, it would have been unthinkable to include such a reference, which could have been misconstrued, in a Broadway production. The offending stanza was altered to:
  
  Flying too high
  With some guy
  In the sky
  Is my idea of nothing to do
  Yet I get a kick out of you
  
  In 1936, when the show was adapted for the big screen, Porter's reference to cocaine fell foul of the Hays Code, which regulated motion pictures, so this was replaced. >>

  Suggestion credit:
  Alexander Baron - London, England
• This song became widely associated with Frank Sinatra after he recorded it for his album Songs For Young Lovers in 1954 and Sinatra and Swingin' Brass in 1962. He would revisit it numerous times for concert performances and include it on his live albums and compilation albums. Other singers to record it include Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney and Dionne Warwick.
• No version of "I Get A Kick Out Of You" ever charted in America, but in the UK a rendition by the Australian singer Gary Shearston went to #7 in 1974.
• Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga released their version, along with a video of the pair performing the song, on August 6, 2021 as the first single from their album Love For Sale. Bennett turned 95 three days earlier.