The Way You Look Tonight

The Way You Look Tonight is a song from the Hollywood Musical Swing Time, the 1936 Jerome Kern (music) and Dorothy Fields ( text ) was written. Fred Astaire wears it in the movie his film partner Ginger Rogers. The song in AABA scheme in 1937 was awarded the Oscar for best song.

After the premiere of Swing Time Astaire took several songs from the movie on the orchestra Johnny greens. The Way You Look Tonight remained for six weeks at # 1 on the American charts. Later Pick Yourself Up and A Fine Romance arrived just in the first place.

Core wrote contrapuntal melodies The Way You Look Tonight and A Fine Romance. In the last scene of the film The Way You Look Tonight Rogers sings simultaneously with Astaire A Fine Romance ( with altered text). This is the only time that Astaire and Rogers, who played in ten films together, singing in counterpoint.

The song has become a pop and jazz standard. Several artists have recorded it, among other Teddy Wilson with the singer Billie Holiday (1936; # 3 in the U.S. charts ), Benny Goodman with the singer Peggy Lee ( 1942), Eddie Condon (1946 as an up -tempo number) Charlie Parker ( Bird on 52nd Street, 1948), Hans Koller New Jazz Stars (1953), Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (1954 ), Cannonball Adderley and Johnny Griffin with Hank Mobley and John Coltrane (1957 ), Art Pepper (1960 ), Eric Dolphy (1961 ), Ella Fitzgerald (1963 ), Frank Sinatra with Nelson Riddle (1964 ), the Keith Jarrett Trio ( 1982), Brad Mehldau (1997), Bryan Ferry ( 1999) and Steve Turré with Ray Charles ( 2000).

The song was also known by James Darren, it 1999 in the last episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine sang in his role as Vic Fontaine. The recording was released on his album This One 's from the Heart.