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Anything Goes is a 1936 American musical film released by Paramount Pictures adapted from the Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse stage production of the same title.
This first cinematic version, filmed in black and white, was directed by Lewis Milestone with star Ethel Merman reprising her role as Reno Sweeney, and Bing Crosby in the renamed role of Billy Crockett. Charles Ruggles (replacing Victor Moore), Ida Lupino and Arthur Treacher headed the supporting cast. The film required revisions of Porter's saucy lyrics to pass Production Code censors. Only four of his songs remained; "Anything Goes", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "There'll Always Be a Lady Fair", and "You're the Top" — all substantially lyrically revised.
Bing Crosby's influence was used to obtained four new songs from three new songwriters, but other than "Moonburn", written by Hoagy Carmichael and Edward Heyman, which temporarily became a hit for Crosby, it is usually agreed that most of the replacement score was forgettable. Some, including movie musical expert John Springer, have criticized Paramount for substituting new songs by other composers for the originals. (This was a common policy in Hollywood during the 1930s, when film studios owned music publishing houses and hoped that songs written especially for films would guarantee extra profits for the studio.)
[Verse 1]
I'm gonna wear my flip-flossing
I'm gonna play some flip-cupping
Rock a little bit of hip-hoping, Haggard and Jagger
And throw a 20 on the court whole game
If I'm lucky yeah I might get laid
The way that it's going, the cake gon' be floating
[Chorus]
All I wanna do today is wear my favorite shades and get stoned
Work a little less, play a little more
That's what this day is for
And all I wanna do is lace my J's and lace some Jack in my Coke
Work on my lay back, ain't nothin' wrong
With gettin' my sun daze on, gettin' my sun daze on
[Verse 2]
Girl you know you're the life of my party
You can stay and keep sippin' Bacardi
Stir it up as we turn on some Marley
If you want you can get on Harley
I sit you up on a kitchen sink
Stick the pink umbrella in your drink
They wat that we're feeling we gon' buy this evening
[Chorus]
All I wanna do today is wear my favorite shades and get stoned
Work a little less, play a little more
That's what this day is for
And all I wanna do is lace my J's and lace some Jack in my Coke
Work on my lay back, ain't nothin' wrong
With gettin' my sun daze on, gettin' my sun daze on