Cheek to Cheek
"Cheek to Cheek" | |
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Song | |
Published | 1935 by Irving Berlin, Inc. |
Songwriter(s) | Irving Berlin |
"Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1935,[1] for the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie Top Hat (1935).[2] In the movie, Astaire sings the song to Rogers as they dance. The song was nominated for the Best Song Oscar for 1936, which it lost to "Lullaby of Broadway".[3] The song spent five weeks at #1 on Your Hit Parade and was named the #1 song of 1935.[2] Astaire's 1935 recording with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000.[4] In 2004, Astaire's version finished at No. 15 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. A sequence from “Top Hat” with Fred Astaire singing the song while dancing is shown on an outdoor moviescreen in the Oscar-winning film from 1995 “The English Patient”. It was also heard in the 1999 film The Green Mile and the 2017 animated film The Boss Baby.
Recorded versions
- Fred Astaire – 1935, No. 1 hit[2]
- Guy Lombardo – reached No. 2 in 1935
- The Boswell Sisters – charted in 1935[5]
- Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald on the album Ella and Louis (1956)
- Doris Day on the album Hooray for Hollywood (1958)
- Billie Holiday on the album All or Nothing at All (1958)
- Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy on the album With Love from Hollywood (1959)
- Frank Sinatra on the album Come Dance with Me! (1959)
- Alex Harvey on the album Penthouse Tapes (1976)
- Eva Cassidy on the album Live at Blues Alley (1996)
- Rod Stewart on the album Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V (2012)
- Todd Gordon and Horse McDonald recorded a duet version with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires big band for the album Helping the Heroes (2012)
- Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga on the album Cheek to Cheek (2014)
- Angelina Jordan on the album It's Magic (2018)
- Elisa Jo on the album Kicks (2020)
References
- ^ Irving Berlin Collection description from the Library of Congress's online Performing Arts Encyclopedia; retrieved 2012-03-07.
- ^ a b c "Cheek to Cheek" by Fred Astaire, 1935; from the University of Virginia's American Studies website, subsection "Manufacturing Memory: 1935-1939"; retrieved 2012-03-07.
- ^ The 8th Academy Awards (1936) Nominees and Winners, from the website of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science (www.oscar.org); retrieved 2012-03-07.
- ^ Grammy Hall of Fame page from www.grammy.org; retrieved 2012-04-07.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Wisconsin, USA: Record Research Inc. p. 484. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
External links
- 1935 songs
- Al Jolson songs
- Billie Holiday songs
- Bing Crosby songs
- Doris Day songs
- Ella Fitzgerald songs
- Eva Cassidy songs
- Frank Sinatra songs
- Fred Astaire songs
- Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients
- Lady Gaga songs
- Louis Armstrong songs
- Peggy Lee songs
- Rod Stewart songs
- Sammy Davis Jr. songs
- Songs about dancing
- Songs written for films
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