Just One of Those Things is a 1935 popular song written by Cole Porter for the Broadway musical Jubilee. Porter wrote it after Jubilee's second act needed an extra number, finishing it by the next morning; the original lyric lacked the adjective for the line about “a trip to the moon on gossamer wings” until Ed Tauch suggested “gossamer.” The tune quickly found an audience with Richard Himber’s 1935 recording, and Peggy Lee’s 1952 arrangement reached No. 14 on the Billboard charts. It has since become a standard of the American Songbook, covered by dozens of artists from Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, who used it as the title track of his 1957 album Just One of Those Things. The song also appears in several films, including The Jazz Singer (1953) and De-Lovely (2004), and remains a staple of jazz and classic pop repertoires.
