| "The Way You Look To-night[1]" | ||||
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| Single by Fred Astaire | ||||
| B-side | "Pick Yourself Up" | |||
| Published | July 24, 1936[1] by Chappell & Co.[2][3] | |||
| Released | August 1936 | |||
| Recorded | July 26, 1936[4] | |||
| Studio | Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Jazz, Popular Music | |||
| Label | Brunswick 7717[5] | |||
| Composer(s) | Jerome Kern | |||
| Lyricist(s) | Dorothy Fields | |||
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| "The Way You Look Tonight" | ||||
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| Single by The Lettermen | ||||
| from the album A Song for Young Love | ||||
| B-side | "That's My Desire" | |||
| Released | June 13, 1961 | |||
| Recorded | 1961 | |||
| Studio | Capitol (Hollywood) | |||
| Genre | Pop, Easy listening | |||
| Length | 2:21 | |||
| Label | Capitol 4586 | |||
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"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. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936.[6][7] Fields 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."[8]
In the movie, Astaire sang "The Way You Look To-night" to Ginger Rogers while she was washing her hair in an adjacent room.[6] Astaire's recording was a top seller in 1936. Other versions that year were by Guy Lombardo and Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday.[5]
- ^ a b "US Copyright Office Virtual Card Catalog". vcc.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
- ^ "The way you look to-night / words by Dorothy Fields; music by Jerome Kern". The Morgan Library & Museum. 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
- ^ Limited, Alamy. "Stock Photo - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers 1930's Cover Sheet music 'SWING TIME' for the song "The Way You Look Tonight," with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields. It was". Alamy. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ "BRUNSWICK 78rpm numerical listing discography: 7500 - 8000". www.78discography.com. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
- ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories, 1890–1954. Wisconsin: Record Research. p. 604. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
- ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19 ed.). London: Guinness World Records. p. 134. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ Gioia, Ted (2012). The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. New York City: Oxford University Press. pp. 449–451. ISBN 978-0-19-993739-4.
- ^ Wilk, Max (1997). They're Playing Our Song: Conversations with America's Classic Songwriters (1st Da Capo Press ed.). Da Capo Press. p. 56. ISBN 0-306-80746-7.