Begin The Beguine - Other Media

Other Media

  • A character in Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero (2007) refers to this song several times.
  • The song is quoted musically and affectionately parodied in Noël Coward's tongue-twisting 1944 song Nina.
  • It is mentioned several times in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex. Milton Stephanides, father of the novel's main character, Cal, plays the song on his clarinet to woo Tessie, Cal's mother.
  • In the short story "Julio Iglesias" by Haruki Murakami, Iglesias' recording of the song proves to be unbearable to a group of sea turtles.
  • Fictional Medal of Honor recipient Ernie Yost sings the song in an episode of NCIS when he proclaims his love for Artie Shaw over Benny Goodman in the episode "Call of Silence".
  • In a sixth-season The West Wing episode called "A Good Day", President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) sings part of the song while dancing in the Oval Office with the First Lady, Abby (Stockard Channing).
  • The song is played aboard the Bianca Pride in Paule Marshall's novel, Praisesong for the Widow.
Preceded by
"Under Pressure"
by Queen & David Bowie		 UK number one single
5 December 1981
for (1 week)		 Succeeded by
"Don't You Want Me" by The Human League

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