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Who sang Cheek To Cheek?

Release date: 10/1956

Duration: 05:55

Writer(s): Irving Berlin

Ella Fitzgerald released the song Cheek To Cheek. Date of release: 10/1956.

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- The narrator talks about the joy he feels when dancing with his partner.

- They use the phrase "dancing cheek to cheek" to describe the physical closeness they have when they dance.

- The narrator compares the happiness he feels while dancing to other activities that usually make people happy, such as climbing a mountain or going fishing, but he finds that dancing is even better.

- At the end of the song lyrics, the narrator says that he wants to continue dancing with his partner forever.

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The narrator finds happiness in dancing with his partner and compares it to other activities that make people happy, but he finds that dancing is better.

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Ella Fitzgerald - Short Biography

- Ella Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer.

- She was known for the purity of her tone and her ability to improvise.

- She began her musical career with the Chick Webb Orchestra.

- She left the orchestra in 1942 to begin her solo career.

- She recorded with Verve Records and collaborated with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and The Ink Spots.

- She won 14 Grammy Awards and received the National Medal of Arts, the NAACP's inaugural President's Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

- She passed away in 1996 at the age of 79.

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- "Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1934-35.

- The song was written specifically for the star of Berlin's new musical, Fred Astaire.

- That musical was Top Hat, starring Ginger Rogers in the title role. In the film, Astaire sings the song to Rogers as they dance.

- The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song in 1936, but lost to "Lullaby of Broadway."

- The song spent five weeks at #1 on the charts and was named the #1 song of 1935.

- Astaire's 1935 recording with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000.

- In 2004,

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