Pick Yourself Up

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"Pick Yourself Up" is a popular 1936 jazz standard with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, best known for its uplifting message and association with Fred Astaire.

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Pick Yourself Up canonical 3
"Pick Yourself Up" 1
Pick Myself Up 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf jazz standard
song
associatedPerformer Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
composer Jerome Kern
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
filmReleaseYear 1936
firstFeaturedIn Swing Time
genre jazz
hasForm 32-bar song form
hasNotableCoverVersionBy Diana Krall
Ella Fitzgerald
Frank Sinatra
Mel Tormé
Nat King Cole
Tony Bennett
hasOpeningLyric Nothing's impossible, I have found
hasRefrainLyric Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again
hasTheme optimism
perseverance
resilience
hasUprightTitle Pick Yourself Up self-link
isStandardIn jazz repertoire
language English
lyricist Dorothy Fields
lyricsBy Dorothy Fields
musicBy Jerome Kern
notableFor dance sequence by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
uplifting message
originalFilm Swing Time
originalMedium film
partOf Great American Songbook
publicationDate 1936
tempo medium-up swing
usedAs motivational song
yearOfSong 1936

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Swing Time featuresSong Pick Yourself Up
Bush Doctor hasTrack Pick Yourself Up
this entity surface form: Pick Myself Up
Dorothy Fields notableWork Pick Yourself Up
Pick Yourself Up hasUprightTitle Pick Yourself Up self-link
John "Lucky" Garnett associatedWithSong Pick Yourself Up
this entity surface form: "Pick Yourself Up"