Pero consiguió convertirse en el mejor escritor de canciones del siglo XX no gracias a su fortuna, sino a su inteligencia y su ingenio. Fue un triunfador que se codeaba con Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Arthur Rubistein, Scott Fitzgerald, Elsa Maxwell y Coco Chanel. Además, reinventó Broadway.
Cole Porter escribió I've Got You Under My Skin en 1936 para el musical de la Metro Goldwyn Mayer Born to Dance. Diez años después, Frank Sinatra comienza a cantarlo en uno de esos entretenidos programas de radio de postguerra como segunda parte del medley Easy Love, I’ve Got You Under My Skin. Pero otros diez años después, I've Got You cumplió la mayoría de edad y, arreglado por Nelson Riddle, supuso la consolidación de un nuevo sonido, el sonido Sinatra. A partir de ese momento la música popular jamás volvió a ser la misma.
Y si queréis, cierren los ojos e imaginen a Eleanor Powell iniciando un solo al ritmo cadencioso de una Swing Big Band y a alguien como Katharine McPhee cantando…
I've got you under my skin
I've got you deep in the heart of me
So deep in my heart, that you're really a part of me
I've got you under my skin.
I tried so not to give in
And I said to myself this affair never will go so well
But why should I try to resist, when baby I know so well
That I've got you under my skin.
I'd sacrifice anything come what might
For the sake of having you near
In spite of a warning voice that comes in the night
And repeats, repeats in my ear
Don't you know you little fool, you never can win
Use your mentality, wake up to reality,
But each time that I do, just the thought of you
Makes me stop before I begin,
'Cause I've got you under my skin
I would sacrifice anything come what might
for the sake of having you near
in spite of a warning voice
That comes in the night and repeats,
how it yells in my ear
Don't you know you little fool, you never can win
Why not use your mentality,step up, wake up to reality
And each time I do, just the thought of you
Makes me stop just before I begin
'Cause I've got you under my skin
Yeah, You breath me under my skin…