Cheek to Cheek
Appearance
"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 Academy Award 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.
Recorded versions
- Fred Astaire (1935 No. 1 hit)[2]
- Eddy Duchin - a No. 2 hit in 1935
- Guy Lombardo - also reached No. 2 in 1935
- Phil Ohman charted in 1935
- Ray Ventura recorded an instrumental version on 17 October 1935, under the french title Joue à joue (Pathé PA 728)
- The Boswell Sisters - charted in 1935.[5]
- Adam Aston recorded in 1936, under the polish title W siódmym niebie (Syrena-Electro kat: 8614, mx: 26970)
- Bing Crosby - included in his album Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (1956)
- Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald on the album Ella and Louis (1956)
- Doris Day on the album Hooray For Hollywood,(1958)
- Roy Hamilton on the album With All My Love, arranged by Neal Hefti (1958)
- Jula de Palma on the album Jula in Jazz (Columbia, SEMQ 149), featuring the Franco Cerri Trio (1959)
- Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy on the album With Love From Hollywood (1959)
- Frank Sinatra on the album Come Dance with Me! (1959)
- Chet Atkins on the album Solo Flights (1968)
- The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, on the album The Penthouse Tapes (1976)
- Taco on the album After Eight (1982)
- Matthew Morrison (as Will Schuester) and Jane Lynch (as Sue Sylvester) in the seventh episode (titled "Puppet Master") of the fifth season of Glee (2013)
- Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga on the album Cheek to Cheek (2014)
- Andrea Bocelli and his wife Veronica Berti on the album Cinema (2015)
- Alex Mendham & His Orchestra on the album On With The Show (2017)
- Angelina Jordan on her album It’s Magic (2018)
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
Categories:
- 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
- Songs written by Irving Berlin
- Tony Bennett songs