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Someday when I'm awfully low
When the world is cold
I will feel a glow
Just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight

O but you're lovely
With your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft
There is nothing for me to love you
Just the way you look tonight

With each word, your tenderness grows
Tearing my fear apart
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose
Touches my foolish heart

Lovely never never change
Keep that breathless change
Won't you please arrange it
Cause I, I love you
Just the way you look tonight

Just the way you look tonight

2007-03-07 10:46:19 · 5 answers · asked by seanachirico 1 in Entertainment & Music Music

5 answers

It's from Swing Time - 1936. A Ginger Rogers Fred Astaire musical.

Frank Sinatra's version might be best known version, presently. Tony Bennett has a version as well as many others, I'd imagine.

2007-03-07 10:55:50 · answer #1 · answered by ron w 4 · 0 0

"The Way You Look Tonight" is a song featured in the film Swing Time, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. It was written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Dorothy Fields later remarked that the melody, upon first hearing it, moved her to tears and she was thrilled to provide the lyrics: "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I had to leave the room because I started to cry. The release absolutely killed me. I couldn't stop, it was so beautiful."

The song was sung by John "Lucky" Garnett (played by Fred Astaire) while sitting at the piano. Penelope "Penny" Carroll (played by Ginger Rogers) was busy washing her hair in an adjacent room, and feeling anything but beautiful at the time.

This song was also popularly performed by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Michael Bublé and as a duet between Bing Crosby and his wife Dixie Lee. Jazz pianist Art Tatum has an instrumental recording in the collection The Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces. The song was also performed by The Lettermen and became a hit for them in 1961.

Pianist Bradley Joseph performs his arrangement of "The Way You Look Tonight" on his 2006 album, Piano Love Songs.

The song also appears in the Kenneth Branagh film Peter's Friends.

The song, performed by James Darren, also forms the background music for the "Seven-year Montage" in the final episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "What You Leave Behind".

This song was in the movies "Chinatown", My Best Friend's Wedding, Father of the Bride and Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters.

2007-03-07 18:56:08 · answer #2 · answered by melissa 6 · 0 0

It is originally from a 1930s Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' movie called (I think) "Top Hat."

2007-03-07 18:52:35 · answer #3 · answered by carol j 3 · 0 0

Well that song has been in a few movies, and done by many artists. One of the most recent movies i can think of with that song in it was "First Daughter" But im sure it was in many others as well.

2007-03-07 18:52:55 · answer #4 · answered by kaisergirl 7 · 0 0

Father of the Bride

2007-03-07 18:50:23 · answer #5 · answered by Diehard Flyers Fan 3 · 0 0

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