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Columbia released a 78 recording of Fred Astaire singing the original lyrics in May 1930 [4] [deprecated source] (B-side – "Crazy Feet", both recorded on March 26, 1930). For the film Blue Skies (1946), where it was performed by Fred Astaire, Berlin revised the lyrics to apply to affluent whites strutting "up and down Park Avenue". [1]
Blue Skies is a 1946 American musical comedy film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, and Joan Caulfield.Based on a story by Irving Berlin, the film is about a dancer who loves a showgirl who loves a compulsive nightclub-opener who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long.
Blue Skies is an album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire released in 1946 featuring songs that were presented in the American musical film Blue Skies.Like Song Hits from Holiday Inn, the entire 78 rpm album would be composed of Irving Berlin songs written specifically for the film.
Always insecure and believing his career was beginning to falter, Astaire surprised his audiences by announcing his retirement during the production of his next film, Blue Skies (1946). He nominated "Puttin' on the Ritz" as his farewell dance.
Puttin' On the Ritz is a 1930 American pre-Code musical film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Harry Richman, Joan Bennett, and James Gleason.The screenplay was written by Gleason and William K. Wells based on a story by John W. Considine Jr.
Fred Astaire dance-conducting the Artie Shaw Orchestra in Second Chorus. This is a comprehensive guide to over one hundred and fifty of Fred Astaire's solo and partnered dances compiled from his thirty-one Hollywood musical comedy films produced between 1933 and 1968, his four television specials and his television appearances on The Hollywood Palace and Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre ...
Starring Fred Astaire (Avan-Guard, 1987) Top Hat, White Tie and Tails (Saville/Conifer, 1987) Astairable Fred (DRG, 1988) Cheek to Cheek (Compact Selection, 1988) Puttin' On the Ritz (Nostalgia/Mainline, 1988) The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Story (Deja Vu, 1989) Top Hat: Hits from Hollywood (Sony, 1994 ) Steppin Out: Fred Astaire at MGM ...
Bing Crosby - recorded the song for his film Blue Skies in 1945 but it was cut from the film. Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - in 1945 but not released until Tiffany Transcriptions Vol. 6 (1987) [4] Fred Astaire - for his album The Astaire Story (1953) [5] Carmen McRae - Blue Moon (1956) [6] Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella and ...