"Enjoy Yourself" is a popular

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 song

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 published in 1949, with music

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 written

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 by Carl Sigman

Carl Sigman

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 and lyrics

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 by Herb Magidson

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.

Well known recorded versions

The most popular version of the song, recorded

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 by Guy Lombardo

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 and His Royal Canadians, was made on November 27 (some sources give November 28), 1949. The recording was released by Decca Records

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 as catalog number

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 24825. The record

Gramophone record

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 first reached the Billboard

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 charts

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 on January 13, 1950 and lasted 19 weeks on the chart, peaking at #10.

Another recording, by Doris Day

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, was made on January 13, 1950 and released by Columbia Records

Columbia Records

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 as catalog number 38709.

Tommy Dorsey

Tommy Dorsey

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 and his orchestra made a recording on February 2, 1949 which was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-3375.

In 1963 Prince Buster

Prince Buster

Cecil Bustamente Campbell, O.D. , better known as Prince Buster, and also known by his Muslim name Muhammed Yusef Ali, is a musician from Kingston, Jamaica. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ska and rocksteady music...

 recorded a Ska version which was released by Blue Beat records as a B-Side.

Other recorded versions

• Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
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• Barry Martyn
  Barry Martyn
  Barry Martyn is an English born jazz drummer, active principally on the New Orleans jazz revival circuit....
  
  
• Donald Peers
  Donald Peers
  Donald Peers was a popular Welsh singer. His best remembered rendition and signature song was "In a Shady Nook by a Babbling Brook".-Biography:...
  
   (with The Cherokeys)
• Louis Prima
  Louis Prima
  Louis Prima was a Sicilian American singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter. Prima rode the musical trends of his time, starting with his seven-piece New Orleans style jazz band in the 1920s, then successively leading a swing combo in the 1930s, a big band in the 1940s, a Vegas lounge act in the...
  
   & Keely Smith
  Keely Smith
  Keely Smith is an American jazz and popular music singer who enjoyed popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. She collaborated with, among others, Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra.-Career:...
  
  
• Todd Snider
  Todd Snider
  Todd Daniel Snider is an American singer-songwriter with a musical style that combines Americana, alt-country, and folk.-Biography:...
  
   on East Nashville Skyline in 2004
• Maxine Sullivan
  Maxine Sullivan
  Maxine Sullivan , born Marietta Williams, was an American blues and jazz singer.She was born in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and married jazz musician John Kirby in 1938 , and stride pianist Cliff Jackson in 1956...
  
  
• Wingless Angels
  Wingless Angels (band)
  Wingless Angels are a Jamaican Rastafari reggae group led by Justin Hinds, best known for their self-titled album executive produced by Keith Richards and issued on his Mindless Records imprint.-History:...
  
  
• Eric Allendale
  Eric Allendale
  Eric Allendale was a trombonist, songwriter, occasional singer and former bandleader, as well as being a member of various jazz groups in England.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Busters
  The Busters
  The Busters are a German third wave ska revival band, established as a side project in 1987. Playing 2 Tone-influenced ska, they became one of the best-known German ska bands, having a minor hit single in Germany with a ska cover of Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy" They signed to Sony Music...
  
  
• The Specials
  The Specials
  The Specials are an English 2 Tone ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, England. Their music combines a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude", and had a "more focused and informed political and social stance" than other ska groups...
  
  
• Manu Chao
  Manu Chao
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• Rebirth Brass Band
  Rebirth Brass Band
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   on Throwback (2005)
• Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
• Rising Sun Steel Band
• Jolie Holland
  Jolie Holland
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• Dancing Mood

In popular culture

• The 2007 recording by Jools Holland
  Jools Holland
  Julian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE, DL is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer, and television presenter. He was a founder of the band Squeeze and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, The Who, David Gilmour and Bono.Holland is a...
  
   and Prince Buster
  Prince Buster
  Cecil Bustamente Campbell, O.D. , better known as Prince Buster, and also known by his Muslim name Muhammed Yusef Ali, is a musician from Kingston, Jamaica. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ska and rocksteady music...
  
   is used by Simon Mayo
  Simon Mayo
  Simon Mayo is an English radio presenter who has worked for BBC Radio since 1981. As of January 2010, Mayo is presenter of Simon Mayo Drivetime on BBC Radio 2 and, with Mark Kermode, presenter of Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews on BBC Radio 5 Live.In 2008, Mayo was recognised as the "radio...
  
   as the opening theme to his Drivetime show on BBC Radio 2
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• The song was mentioned in the seventh episode of Mad Men
  Mad Men
  Mad Men is an American dramatic television series created and produced by Matthew Weiner. The series premiered on Sunday evenings on the American cable network AMC and are produced by Lionsgate Television. It premiered on July 19, 2007, and completed its fourth season on October 17, 2010. Each...
  
  's second season.

• A group of ghosts dance to this song in a scene in the Woody Allen
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  Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
  
   film Everyone Says I Love You
  Everyone Says I Love You
  Everyone Says I Love You is a 1996 American musical film that was written and directed by Woody Allen. The film features many stars, including Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Edward Norton, Drew Barrymore, Gaby Hoffmann, Tim Roth, Goldie Hawn, and Natalie Portman.Set in New York, Venice, and Paris, the...
  
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• The recording by Rising Sun Steel Band featured in the film Surf's Up
  Surf's Up (film)
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• The song is the theme tune to both the radio and television versions of the BBC program, I've Never Seen Star Wars
  I've Never Seen Star Wars (radio series)
  I've Never Seen Star Wars is a comedy talk show broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Hosted by comedian Marcus Brigstocke, each episode features a celebrity guest trying out experiences that are new to them, but common to many others. The title comes from the show's producer and creator, Bill Dare, having...
  
  . The basic format of the show, which is presented by Marcus Brigstocke
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  , features a different celebrity guest each week, trying out new experiences.

• A Cantonese
  Standard Cantonese
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   version of the refrain was used as the opening theme to Enjoy Yourself Tonight
  Enjoy Yourself Tonight
  Enjoy Yourself Tonight or E.Y.T was a popular variety show in Hong Kong. It made its first broadcast on TVB on 20 November 1967. The show lasted 27 years with its last broadcast on Friday 7 October 1994...
  
  , a popular, long-running variety show
  Variety show
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   in Hong Kong
  Hong Kong
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• Sung briefly by Anne Dudek
  Anne Dudek
  Anne Louise Dudek is an American actress, known for her role as Dr. Amber Volakis on the television show House and her leading role on UK television series The Book Group as well as playing Francine Hanson in the series Mad Men...
  
   in Season 5, Episode 23 of the television series House
  House (TV series)
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  , "Under My Skin"
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  "Under My Skin" is the twenty-third episode of the fifth season of House, which aired on May 4, 2009.-Plot:House and the team are given the challenge of diagnosing a ballerina, Penelope whose lungs collapse during rehearsal...
  
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• In the opening song on Wowee Zowee
  Wowee Zowee
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  , "We Dance", by Pavement (band)
  Pavement (band)
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  , one of the lyrics is "... check that expiration date man, It's later than you think. You can't enjoy yourself, I can't enjoy myself ...".

• A rendition of the song was used to close the first two series' of The Brian Conley Show, whilst an instrumental version was used for the third.