Maurice Chevalier - You've Got That Thing, 1930 video free download

Maurice Chevalier with Orchestra - You've Got That Thing, Fox-trot from Musical Comedy "Fifty Million Frenchmen" (Cole Porter), Victor 1930 (USA)

NOTE: "Fifty Million Frenchmen" was a standard comedy "boy-meets-a-girl-in Paris" and it opened on Broadway in 1929. The title is a reference to Sophie Tucker's 1927 hit song "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" by Willie Raskin, Billy Rose, and Fred Fisher, which compared free attitudes in 1920s Paris with censorship and prohibition in the United States. The show was adapted for a film two years later by Lloyd Bacon and filmed entirely in Technicolor. The cast included Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, William Gaxton, Helen Broderick, John Halliday, Claudia Dell, Lester Crawford, and Evalyn Knapp. Music was written by Cole Porter including such hits, as "You Do Something To Me", "Find Me a Primitive Man", "You've Got That Thing" or "Paree, What Did You Do to Me?". Enormous success of the movie had led Warner Bros. to releasing in 1934 a two-reeler entitled Paree, Paree with Bob Hope in the William Gaxton role.

Unfortunately, Maurice Chevalier was not invited to perform in that American show the plot and the atmosphere of which was so strongly flavoured with the Gallic spices, instead he recorded for Victor one of the hits from the show.