"The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936" saw the premiere performance of "I Can't Get Started" (Ira Gershwin - Vernon Duke) when it was sung by Eve Arden to Bob Hope. The first recording came from Hal Kemp and his Orchestra featuring vocalist Skinny Ennis when it peaked at number fourteen on the charts of the time. The track is edited to include the vocal.

Bunny (Roland) Berigan was a celebrated trumpeter with the bands of Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey. He started his own band in 1937 and chose "I Can't Get Started" as his theme song. Bunny had recorded the song as a Vocalian single prior to the Victor album "A Symposium Of Swing" but it was this edited version with Bunny's vocal that hit the top ten. The band didn't last long as Benny died at age thirty-three in 1942. Longer and better versions of the song are easily available but this was the original successful 78 rpm recording.