The Way You Look Tonight
| "The Way You Look To-night" | ||||
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| Single by Fred Astaire | ||||
| B-side | "Pick Yourself Up" | |||
| Published | July 24, 1936 by Chappell & Co. | |||
| Released | August 1936 | |||
| Recorded | July 26, 1936 | |||
| Studio | Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Jazz, Popular Music | |||
| Label | Brunswick 7717 | |||
| 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. 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 To-night" to Ginger Rogers while she was washing her hair in an adjacent room. Astaire's recording was a top seller in 1936. Other versions that year were by Guy Lombardo and Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday.