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In 1999, Entertainment Weekly named Swing Time as one of the top 100 films, and in 2004, the film was included in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Swing Time at No. 90 on their 10th anniversary list of 100 Years...100 Movies. [1]
The song was written for the film Swing Time (1936), where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Rogers plays a dance instructor whom Astaire follows into her studio; he pretends to have "two left feet" in order to get her to dance with him. Astaire sings the verse to her and she responds with the chorus.
Swing time is a time feel in jazz music. Swing Time may also refer to: Swing Time, a 1936 movie directed by George Stevens starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; Swing Time, a 2016 novel by Zadie Smith; Swing Time Records, a record label active in the 1940s and '50s
The song was nominated for the Best Song Oscar for 1936, which it lost to "Lullaby of Broadway". [5] The song spent five weeks at #1 on Your Hit Parade and was named the #1 song of 1935. [ 4 ] Astaire's 1935 recording with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000. [ 6 ]
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A Fine Romance performed on tenor sax by Jules Grandgagnage "A Fine Romance" is a popular song composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, published in 1936. The song was written for the musical film, Swing Time, where it was co-introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Fred Astaire recorded "The Way You Look To-night" in Los Angeles on July 26, 1936. [10] Bing Crosby and his wife Dixie Lee recorded the song as a duet on August 19. [11]To take advantage of the song's success, pianist Teddy Wilson brought Billie Holiday into a studio 10 weeks after the film Swing Time was released.
Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer and singer during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in Kitty Foyle (1940), and performed during the 1930s in RKO's musical films with Fred Astaire.