Cheek to Cheek

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Cheek to Cheek
Fred Astaire
publication 1935
length 3:28
Genre (s) Film music
Author (s) Irving Berlin
Award (s) Grammy Hall of Fame, Oscar nomination
album Soundtrack to I dance myself into your heart

Cheek to Cheek is a song by Irving Berlin that he wrote for the Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers film I dance into your heart (1935). In the film, Astaire sings the song while dancing with Rogers. The song was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song at the 1936 Academy Awards, but lost to Lullaby of Broadway from The Gold Diggers of 1935 . Astaire's version stayed at number 1 on Your Hit Parade for five weeks in 1935 , making it the most successful song there in 1935. The version by Astaire with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000 .

The opening verse "Heaven, I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak ..." (German: "Heaven, I'm in heaven and my heart beats so fast that I can hardly speak ...") world famous. The song was included in the Great American Songbook . Berlin itself used parts of his 1937 song for He Ain't Got Rhythm from the film Today we go shopping .

The song was used in two versions, once by Astaire and once by Ella Fitzgerald (from the album Ella and Louis 1956), in the film The English Patient . A version by Glenn Miller can be found in Les Misérables (1995). Kenneth Branagh sang the song in Lost Love Labor (2005). The original version of Astaire was used in The Green Mile , Rain Man , AI - Artificial Intelligence and The Purple Rose of Cairo . The song is also briefly played in the film Wall Street: Money Doesn't Sleep, as well as in The Isle of Special Children . It's the theme song in the animated film Boss Baby .

The American Film Institute chose Cheek to Cheek in 2004 to # 15 on the best film song of all time .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Irving Berlin Collection description from: Library of Congress ' s online Performing Arts Encyclopedia; Retrieved March 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b “Cheek to Cheek” by Fred Astaire, 1935 ; University of Virginia's American Studies website, “ Manufacturing Memory : 1935–1939” subpage ; Retrieved March 7, 2012.
  3. ^ The 8th Academy Awards (1936) Nominees and Winners , from the website of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science (www.oscar.org). Retrieved March 7, 2012.
  4. ^ Grammy Hall of Fame page from www.grammy.org. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
  5. ↑ Dave Jay: The Irving Berlin songography; 1907-1966 . Arlington House, 1969, p. 80 .
  6. ↑ Soundtracks of the film The English Patient ; from the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com). Retrieved April 7, 2012.