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Frank Sinatra - The Way You Look Tonight



Piano and Vocal
Performed by: Frank Sinatra | Musical: Swing Time | Composer: Jerome Kern | Music Category: American Standards | Item Code: 1000038618

"The Way You Look Tonight" is a song from the film Swing Time, written by Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern, and originally performed by Fred Astaire. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. In 2004 the Astaire version finished at #43 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.

The song was sung to Ginger Rogers as Penelope "Penny" Carroll by Astaire in character as John "Lucky" Garnett, while Penny was busy washing her hair in an adjacent room. The song was written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields,[1] and has become a standard. Fields later remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release absolutely killed me. I couldn't stop, it was so beautiful."

Fred Astaire topped the charts with his recording in 1936 and other popular versions that year were by Guy Lombardo and by Teddy Wilson with a vocal by Billie Holiday

Awards
Academy Award - Best Original Song - 1936

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