You'll Be Gone recorded 'It's Now Or Never' and he wanted to take another old standard that was a great song and change the lyrics. ... He said 'I like the song "Begin the Beguine". I like the melody but I'd like to put new lyrics on it.'" When Cole Porter denied permission to alter the lyrics, Elvis, West, and Charlie Hodge worked on creating new lyrics and new music for a song that would be entitled "You'll Be Gone". The song was replete with Latin rhythms and classical guitar passages. The beguine had been a dance popular in Martinique and Guadeloupe in
Albertina Rasch a "ballet" in which only her hands could be seen to the Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz song "Dancing in the Dark". Rasch also helped establish Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" as a popular standard by choreographing it to an ethnic dance in "Jubilee" (1935). Additional Broadway credits include "The Three Musketeers", "Show Girl", "The Bohemian Girl", "The Great Waltz", and "Lady in the Dark". Rasch served as choreographer and/or dance director for a number of musical films, including "The Merry Widow" (1934) with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier, "Broadway Melody of 1936" (1936) with Jack Benny and Eleanor Powell,