![]() ![]() ![]() Tony Bennett recorded the song on his album Long Ago and Far Away in 1958, and then again with the Ralph Sharon Trio for the film My Best Friend’s Wedding, released in 1997.Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk recorded it in 1954.36 on the UK Singles Chart that same year. 13 on the Billboard magazine Hot 100 singles chart in 1961 and No. The Lettermen found their first hit when their version reached No.The most popular and imitated version was recorded by Frank Sinatra with the Nelson Riddle orchestra in 1964.A live recording was released by Dave Brubeck Quartet in their 1953 live album Jazz at Oberlin.Six years passed before the song appeared on the charts again, this time in a version by Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee on vocals and Mel Powell on celeste.Holiday was 21 when she recorded "The Way You Look Tonight" with a small group led by Wilson in October 1936.Ī number of British dance bands also made contemporary cover recordings of the song: Ambrose (with vocals by Sam Browne), Roy Fox (with vocals by Denny Dennis), Tommy Kinsman, Harry Roy, Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans (vocal by George Melachrino) and Jay Wilbur (with vocals by Sam Costa). To take advantage of the song's success, pianist Teddy Wilson brought Billie Holiday into a studio 10 weeks after the film Swing Time was released. Bing Crosby and his wife Dixie Lee recorded the song as a duet on August 19. Contemporary recordings įred Astaire recorded "The Way You Look To-night" in Los Angeles on July 26, 1936. The next copyright on Jwas from Swing Time and was published. ![]() ![]() It was first copyrighted on Maas "Way (The) you look to-night song from I won't dance", and was unpublished (" I Won't Dance" was a song from the 1935 film Roberta by Kern and Fields). The song was sung by Fred Astaire in the 1936 film Swing Time in the key of D major, but it is typically performed in E-flat major with a modulation to G-flat major. Other versions that year were by Guy Lombardo and Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday. Astaire's recording was a top seller in 1936. In the movie, Astaire sang "The Way You Look To-night" to Ginger Rogers while she was washing her hair in an adjacent room. Fields remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. " The Way You Look To-night" is a song from the film Swing Time that was performed by Fred Astaire and composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Dorothy Fields. For the song written by Elton John, see Something About the Way You Look Tonight. For the album by Jimmy McGriff, see The Way You Look Tonight (album). ![]()
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