Cheek to Cheek
Written by Irving Berlin, Cheek to Cheek is a song first performed by Fred Astaire in the 1935 movie Top Hat. Astaire's 1935 recording with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000.
The Astaire version, and the version by Ella Fitzgerald from her 1956 album Ella and Louis, is featured in the movie The English Patient. The Astaire version is also featured in the movies The Green Mile, Rain Man, and The Purple Rose of Cairo. Glenn Miller's version was used in the movie Les Misérables, and Kenneth Branagh sang Cheek to Cheek in the movie Love's Labour's Lost. The song has been covered by more than eighty artists.
Irving Berlin (1888 – 1989) was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest American songwriters. According to George Gershwin, "His music has that vitality - both rhythmic and melodic - which never seems to lose any of its exuberant freshness; it has that rich, colorful melodic flow which is ever the wonder of all those of who, too, compose songs; his ideas are endless."
