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"Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1934–35,[3] specifically for the star of his new musical, Fred Astaire. The movie was Top Hat, co-starring Ginger Rogers.[4] 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".[5] The song spent five weeks at #1 on Your Hit Parade and was named the #1 song of 1935.[4] Astaire's 1935 recording with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000.[6] In 2004, Astaire's version finished at No. 15 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.

"Cheek to Cheek"
Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing in Swing Time, 1936
Song by Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman's Orchestra
B-side	"No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)"
Published	July 2, 1935 (1935-07-02) by Irving Berlin, Inc., New York[1]
Released	August 1935
Recorded	June 26, 1935 (1935-06-26)[2]
Studio	ARC Recording Studios, 1776 Broadway, New York City
Genre	Jazz, Pop Vocal
Label	Brunswick 7486
Songwriter(s)	Irving Berlin
Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman's Orchestra singles chronology
"Flying Down to Rio" (1934) "Cheek to Cheek" (1935) "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" (1935)

Release

On June 26, 1935, Fred and Leo Reisman, along with his Orchestra, got to work at ARC (parent company of Brunswick Records at the time) Studios in New York City. They recorded two Irving Berlin compositions, "Cheek To Cheek" and "No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)". The next day, with Johnny Greene's Orchestra, "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" and "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" were completed. Both singles were released in August, and then at the end of the month, "Top Hat" premiered. The timing must have been perfect, because "Cheek to Cheek" headed straight to #1, where it stayed for eleven weeks, and finished the #1 hit of 1935. Fred topped his career high of ten weeks for "Night And Day".

Recorded versions

According to the database of secondhandsongs.com, "Cheek to Cheek" has been recorded by 438 different artists as of July 2021.[7]

Release	Performer	Vocalist	Recording date	Album	Label	Source
1935	Guy Lombardo	Guy Lombardo
1935	The Boswell Sisters	The Boswell Sisters
1956	Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong	Ella & Louis	August 16, 1956	Ella and Louis	Verve
1957	Lou Donaldson feat. Horace Silver Quartet	instrumental	June 20, 1952	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet	Blue Note	[8]
1958	Peggy Lee	Peggy Lee	January 3, 1958	Jump for Joy	Capitol
1958	Doris Day	Doris Day	February 24, 1958	Hooray for Hollywood	Columbia
1958	Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald	March 1958	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book	Verve
1958	Billie Holiday	Billie Holiday	August 1956	All or Nothing at All	Verve
1959	Frank Sinatra	Frank Sinatra	December 1958	Come Dance with Me!	Capitol
1976	Alex Harvey	Alex Harvey	Christmas 1975	The Penthouse Tapes	Vertigo
1982	Taco	Taco	1981	After Eight	RCA Victor
2014	Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga	Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga	June 2013	Cheek to Cheek	Columbia

In popular culture

• A sequence from Top Hat with Fred Astaire singing the song while dancing is shown on an outdoor moviescreen in the Oscar-winning 1996 film The English Patient.
• "Heaven on the 7th Floor," a 1977 hit song by Paul Nicholas, quotes the opening line of "Cheek to Cheek" in its backing vocals.
• It was featured prominently in the 1999 film The Green Mile.
• The song was heard in the 2017 animated film The Boss Baby.
• A rendition was also heard at the work Christmas party in the 2020 film Godmothered.
• The song was used as a parody called Seven Goldfish for Sesame Street.
• An instrumental version is used as background music in a dance scene at a party at Mrs Pumfrey’s house in season 1, episode 2 of “All Creatures Great and Small”.
• The song was used as a parody in an episode of Arthur (TV Series) for its 6th Season.
• The song is played at the Summer Hunt Ball in a first series episode of To The Manor Born with Audrey and DeVere dancing to it on Audrey's terrace. It is reprised in the final episode of the third series as the two dance together again at the manor house during Audrey's homecoming party.
• This song was also sung and danced to in a later episode of Taxi[9]

References

На других языках

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- [en] Cheek to Cheek

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[es] Cheek to Cheek (canción)

"Cheek to Cheek" (en español: Mejilla con Mejilla) es una canción compuesta y escrita por Irving Berlin en 1935 para la película Top Hat (Sombrero de copa), en la que era interpretada por Fred Astaire, y se convirtió en número uno.[1][2] Su grabación de 1935 con la Leo Reisman Orchestra fue introducida al Salón de la Fama de los Premios Grammy en el año 2000.

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[ru] Cheek to Cheek (песня)

«Cheek to Cheek» («Щека к щеке») — песня американского композитора Ирвинга Берлина[1].

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