Pick Yourself Up is a 1936 jazz-pop standard composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. It was written for the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Swing Time (1936), where Astaire pretends to have two left feet to win a dance lesson from Rogers. The tune features a verse and chorus with a 32-bar form and an extended coda, and it was introduced by Astaire and Rogers; Astaire recorded it for Brunswick in July 1936, with the single released in August 1936 (Brunswick 7717). The song was published by T. B. Harms and is typically categorized as Jazz and Pop Vocal. It has been widely covered by Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald with Nelson Riddle, Frank Sinatra, Diana Krall, Natalie Cole, and Gregory Porter among others. It has served as a theme in television and film, including The Johnny Carson Show in the 1955-56 period and the UK sitcom Fresh Fields, and its lyrics were quoted by Barack Obama in 2009.
