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10 songs that feel like Nice Work If You Can Get It

Matched to Nice Work If You Can Get It by Ella Fitzgerald on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

Nice Work If You Can Get It
The song you love
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Ella Fitzgerald
safe 21/100 intensity 140 BPM
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The Way Young Lovers Do — Van Morrison safe 120 BPM

A 96% feel-match — carries the same warm pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (19/100).

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Jambalaya (On the Bayou) — Hank Williams safe 120 BPM

96% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (19/100). Same smooth texture.

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Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo — Disney (Verna Felton) safe 120 BPM

Keeps the same warm pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (19/100). Measured 96% alike.

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Chim Chim Cher-ee — Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews safe 120 BPM

Measures 96% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (19/100). Same smooth texture.

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Following the Leader — Bobby Driscoll, Paul Collins, Tommy Luske, and Lost Boys cast safe 120 BPM

A 96% feel-match — carries the same warm pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (19/100).

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Do-Re-Mi — Julie Andrews safe 140 BPM

99% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (21/100). Same smooth texture.

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The More We Get Together — Raffi safe 120 BPM

Keeps the same warm pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (16/100). Measured 94% alike.

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My Flea Has Dogs — Caspar Babypants safe 110 BPM

Measures 94% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (19/100). Same smooth texture.

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Malti — Dan Zanes & Friends feat. Barbara Brousal safe 110 BPM

A 94% feel-match — carries the same warm pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (19/100).

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We Wish You a Merry Christmas — Traditional safe 120 BPM

94% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (19/100). Same smooth texture.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “Nice Work If You Can Get It” by Ella Fitzgerald?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “The Way Young Lovers Do” by Van Morrison, “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)” by Hank Williams, “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” by Disney (Verna Felton) — the top match scores 96% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

How intense is “Nice Work If You Can Get It”?

It measures 21/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 4/10, smooth texture, no sudden shifts, and soft vocals. Tempo is 140 BPM.

How do you decide which songs are similar?

Every song in our catalog is measured on 8 dimensions — intensity, dynamic range, tempo, sudden changes, texture, predictability, vocal force and fine sound detail. Similarity is the distance between two songs across those measurements, so matches cross genres and eras. Shared mood tags break ties.

By the numbers: how this song compares

Computed from this song’s place among the 19,209 songs we’ve measured.

Where it sits in 19,000 songs

This sits near the calm end of everything we've measured — gentler than 87% of the 19,209 songs in the library. Its intensity reading of 21/100 comes from a dynamic range of 4/10, smooth texture, no sudden shifts, and soft vocals. Relatively few songs occupy this exact corner of the spectrum.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is an unusually steady, even volume: more extreme on that axis than 97% of everything we've measured. At the far opposite end of the library sit the songs built on full chaos — sudden changes, huge quiet-to-loud swings, and relentless energy — the kind of track this one is the counterpoint to.

Feels almost identical to

Closest matches by feel across all 19,209 measured songs — not by genre or artist, by how they actually move.

What it’s good for

Sleep9/10
Focus10/10
Workout4/10
Dinner7/10
Party / hype3/10

Scored from this song’s tempo, intensity, dynamics and texture — not crowd votes.

1959 in context

The 96 songs we’ve measured from 1959 average a dynamic range of 5.9/10. At 4/10, this track is gentler and steadier than its year.

Mixes smoothly with

Within a few BPM and close in feel — they flow without a jarring transition.

The fingerprint

Intensity21
Dynamics33
Tempo56
Surprise0
Density0
Predictability0
Vocal force25
Trigger load0

The 8-dimension measurement behind every rating on this page.

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