who sang the original the way you look tonight
Fred Astaire
title: The Way You Look Tonight text: was recorded by Frank Sinatra with the Nelson Riddle orchestra in 1964. Versions were also recorded by Clifford Brown, Tina Brooks, Johnny Griffin (with John Coltrane), and Charlie Parker. Bing Crosby and his wife Dixie Lee recorded it as a duet on August 19, 1936. The Lettermen found their first hit when their version reached No. 14 on the "Billboard" magazine Hot 100 singles chart and No. 36 on the UK Singles Chart. Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk recorded it in 1954. The Way You Look Tonight "The Way You Look Tonight" is a song from the film "Swing Time" title: The Way You Look Tonight text: The Way You Look Tonight "The Way You Look Tonight" is a song from the film "Swing Time" that was performed by Fred Astaire and written by Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. 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." In the movie, Astaire sang "The Way You Look Tonight" to Ginger Rogers while she was washing her hair in an adjacent room. His recording reached the title: The Jarmels text: manager of The Jarmels. In early 1961, they released the single "Little Lonely One", which did not find much success outside New York. However, their second single, "A Little Bit of Soap", reached number 12 in America on the Billboard chart in June of the same year. The flip side of the recording was "The Way You Look Tonight", a song featured in the film "Swing Time" and originally performed by Fred Astaire. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. "Soap" proved to be the only hit single for The Jarmels; the next four singles, including title: The Way You Look Tonight text: top of the charts in 1936. Other versions that year were by Guy Lombardo and by Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday. To take advantage of the success of the song, pianist Teddy Wilson brought Billie Holiday into a studio ten weeks after the movie was released. Holiday was twenty-one when she recorded "The Way You Look Tonight" as a duet with Wilson in October 1936. Six years passed before the song appeared on the charts again, this time in a version by Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee on vocals and Mel Powell on celeste. The most popular and imitated version title: Great American Songbook text: and Rufus Wainwright. In 2012, Sir Paul McCartney joined this list with the album "Kisses on the Bottom". John Stevens, a 2004 "American Idol" contestant, also recorded these songs. Steve Tyrell has forged a successful solo career with his interpretations of songs from the Great American Songbook. His version of "The Way You Look Tonight" for "Father of the Bride" (1991) was noticed and kept in the film at the insistence of its star, Steve Martin; this led to Tyrell recording several Songbook albums, including "A New Standard", "Standard Time" and "Bach to Bacharach". In 2014, Lady Gaga and Tony