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Cheek To Cheek

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Lyric + music by Irving Berlin (1935)

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Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

Heaven, I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

Oh, I love to climb a mountain and to reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me half as much as dancing cheek to cheek
Oh, I love to go out fishing in a river or a creek
But I don't enjoy it half as much as dancing cheek to cheek

Dance with me
I want my arms about you
The charms about you
Will carry me through

To Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek.



In 1935 Fred Astaire choreographed this song for him and Ginger Rogers to dance to in "Top Hat". He was the star, she was the newbie and he was in charge of everything. Unbeknownst to him, Ginger and her mother, Lela, had the costume mistress make a dress of fancy feathers. Fred saw it for the first time when the scene was to be shot and he wasn't happy. As they started to dance, feathers began to fly everywhere, in Fred's eyes, up his nose, all over his suit, he went ballistic and began yelling at Ginger, then at Ginger's mother. Ginger yelled at Fred for yelling at her mother, who then yelled at the seamstress, who began to cry. It was mayhem, with the director trying in vain to get some control. Eventually the dressmaker tightened up the stitching and the dance was filmed. However, Fred began singing this, to the tune of Cheek To Cheek: "Feathers, feathers, I hate feathers and I hate them so that I can hardly speak and I never find the happiness I seek with those chicken feathers dancing cheek to cheek." Watch the film and in this scene you'll see small feathers wafting through the air from time to time!

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from No Strings, released August 22, 2014

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No Strings is a Mother/Son duo recording a wide variety of original songs, jazz standards, rock/pop/country/folk songs + spoken word presentations.

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