I Can't Get Started

"I Can't Get Started", also known as "I Can't Get Started with You" or "I Can't Get Started (With You)", is a popular song. With music by Vernon Duke and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, it was introduced in 1936 in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, where it was performed by Bob Hope and Eve Arden. Ira Gershwin later explained that Duke's melody had come first: "Vernon played me this tune and told me it had a lyric called 'Face the Music with Me'; that nothing had happened to that version; that the tune was free and I could write it up if I liked it. I liked it and wrote it up."

Hal Kemp and his Orchestra recorded it and it had a bit of popularity, rising briefly to 14th place on the recording charts. Bunny Berigan's 1937 version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.