You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me

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| composer = Harry Warren

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"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,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ENtazHbVc4C&pg=PA109|title=America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley|last1=Furia|first1=Philip|last2=Lasser|first2=Michael L.|date=2006-01-01|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9780415972468|pages=109–110|language=en}} which became a standard.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7l-TAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA410|title=Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song|last=Jasen|first=David A.|date=2004-06-01|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135949013|page=410|language=en}} The lyrics of the song were noted for its references to addiction.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcKfBAAAQBAJ|title=American History in Song: Lyrics From 1900 to 1945|last=Holloway|first=Diane|date=2001-08-01|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=9781469704531|page=242|language=en}}

It appears in the Warner Brothers musical film 42nd Street, for which Warren and Dubin wrote three songs together. The song was inspired by one of the women working at the Warner Brothers studio. When asked why she was still dating a certain man, she said that he was “getting to be a habit with her”.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XD2xNKSN3E8C|title=Hollywood Musicals Year by Year|last=Green|first=Stanley|author-link=Stanley Green (historian)|date=1999-01-01|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780634007651|pages=20–21|language=en}} In the movie, it is sung by the leading lady Dorothy Brock, played by Bebe Daniels.

The song was recorded by Guy Lombardo with Bing Crosby on vocals on January 12, 1933{{cite web|title=A Bing Crosby Discography|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/crosby1a.html|website=BING magazine|publisher=International Club Crosby|access-date=April 23, 2017}} and reached #1 in the charts.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/breakingrecords100ruhl|url-access=registration|title=Breaking Records: 100 Years of Hits|last=Ruhlmann|first=William|date=2004-08-02|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135947194|page=[https://archive.org/details/breakingrecords100ruhl/page/68 68]|language=en}} Crosby also included the song in the short film Please (1933). Another hit recording of the song in 1933 was by Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians.{{cite book|last1=Whitburn|first1=Joel|title=Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954|date=1986|publisher=Record Research Inc|location=Wisconsin, USA|isbn=0-89820-083-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/439 439]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/439}} The song was again performed by Doris Day in the musical Lullaby of Broadway in 1951.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hSCfBQAAQBAJ|title=Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era|last=Tyler|first=Don|date=2007-04-02|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786429462|page=193|language=en}} Since then it has been performed by a large number of artists.