You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me

"You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" is a 1932 popular song with music by Harry Warren and the lyrics by Al Dubin.

It appears in the backstager Warner Brothers musical film 42nd Street. The song was inspired by one of the women working at the Warner Brothers studio, who when asked why she was still dating a certain man, said that he was getting to be a habit with her. In the movie, it is sung by the leading lady Dorothy Brock, played by Bebe Daniels.

Recorded versions

• Betty Carter
• Petula Clark
• Perry Como
• Bing Crosby
• Bebe Daniels
• Doris Day
• Skinnay Ennis
• Alice Faye
• Eydie Gormé
• Earl Hines
• Diana Krall
• Nancy LaMott and Michael Feinstein
• Peggy Lee
• Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians
• Julie London
• Shelly Manne
• Maureen McGovern
• Anita O'Day - An Evening with Anita O'Day (1956)
• Dick Powell
• Buddy Rich
• Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers (1956)
• Elaine Stritch
• Mel Tormé

Parodies

• Allan Sherman recorded "You're getting to be a Rabbit with Me" on his 1963 album My Son, the Nut.

• On the South Park season eight episode "You Got F'd in the A", the song Butters danced to in the flashback of the freak accident caused by his tap dancing was an upbeat (yet risqué) tune of "I've Got Something in My Front Pocket For You", which sounds similar to this song in tune (and song title).

• This music plays in the BioShock Launch Trailer.

• This song was also featured in the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, as Duke enters the police convention at the hotel for the first time.

Other

Julie Stevens, a British actress, sings it in The Avengers television series. The episode, titled "The Decapod", first aired in 1962. She sings it in a lounge scene with a jazz combo accompanying her (piano, drums & upright bass).