

It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 36th Academy Awards held in 1964. Call me irresponsible, call me unreliable Throw in undependable too Do my foolish alibis bore you Well, Im not too clever I just adore you Call me unpredictable, tell me Im impractical Rainbows Im inclined to pursue Call me irresponsible yes, Im unreliable But its undeniably true: Im irresponsibly mad for you.

The beloved New York Timesbestselling author returns with a delightfully sassy, sexy, and downright irresistible tale of true love Texas style. However, Astaire's contractual obligations prevented him from making the film and the role went to Jackie Gleason, who introduced the song. The funniest love story of the year, Call Me Irresistibleis the book Susan Elizabeth Phillips fans have been craving. Cahn personally auditioned the song for Astaire's approval, which was given. However, in 1988, Sammy Cahn said during an interview with freelance writer Harlan Conti, in San Francisco, that the song was originally written for Fred Astaire to sing in the film Papa's Delicate Condition in which Astaire was to star. Garland later sang the song on the seventh episode of the show. At that time, Garland had just signed to do The Judy Garland Show on CBS, and the intent of the song was to parody her well-known problems. According to the Mel Tormé book The Other Side of the Rainbow with Judy Garland on the Dawn Patrol, Van Heusen originally wrote the song for Garland to sing at a CBS dinner. "Call Me Irresponsible" is a 1962 song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics written by Sammy Cahn which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1963.
