Cheek to Cheek
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"Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin, and first performed by Fred Astaire in the movie Top Hat (1935).
The song is probably most famous for its opening lines, "Heaven, I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak..." and was featured in the Astaire-Rogers movie, soon becoming a standard sung by many other artists, including Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Eva Cassidy, Doris Day, Jane Monheit and Frank Sinatra.
The song, as sung by Astaire and Fitzgerald, is featured in the movie The English Patient. It is sung by Kenneth Branagh in Love's Labour's Lost. It is also shown being performed in The Green Mile and The Purple Rose of Cairo when Top Hat is being viewed.
- Larry Adler
- Ambrose
- Julie Andrews
- Ray Anthony
- Louis Armstrong
- Fred Astaire
- Chet Atkins
- Count Basie
- Tony Bennett
- Polly Bergen
- Irving Berlin
- Stanley Black
- Pat Boone
- Boswell Sisters
- Connee Boswell
- Sam Browne
- Charlie Byrd
- Carmen Cavallaro
- June Christy
- Rosemary Clooney
- Alma Cogan
- Ken Collyer
- Ray Conniff
- Taco
- Bing Crosby
- Vic Damone
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Doris Day
- Buddy DeFranco
- Tommy Dorsey
- Roy Eldridge
- Ziggy Ellman
- Eddie Fisher
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Erroll Garner
- Carroll Gibbons
- Benny Goodman
- Stephane Grappelli
- Buddy Greco
- Roy Hamilton
- Dick Haymes
- Billie Holiday
- Marilyn Horne
- Harry James
- Joni James
- Al Jolson
- Shirley Jones
- Steve Lawrence
- Peggy Lee
- Guy Lombardo
- Billy May
- Susannah McCorkle
- Sir Yehudi Menuhin
- Glenn Miller
- Matt Monro
- Red Norvo
- Pasadena Roof Orchestra
- Donald Peers
- Oscar Peterson
- Louis Prima
- Buddy Rich
- Ginger Rogers
- George Shearing
- Frank Sinatra
- Lew Stone
- Mel Tormé
- Sarah Vaughan
- Teddy Wilson
- Sara Montiel
- Joe Pass
- Regine
- In an episode of Arthur, Arthur's puppy, Pal day-dreams of eating bacon and sings a perody of the song, imagining eating the bacon, "cheek-to-cheek."