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Cheek To Cheek (ver. 1) by Irving Berlin - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
"Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin, and first performed by Fred Astaire in the movie Top Hat (1935). His 1935 recording with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000. 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 quickly became a standard of the Great American Songbook. (They were parodied by Berlin himself in his subsequent song He Ain't Got Rhythm, from the film On The Avenue.) The song, as sung by Astaire, and separately by Fitzgerald, is featured in the movie The English Patient, and the version by Glenn Miller in Les Misérables. It is sung by Kenneth Branagh in Love's Labour's Lost. The original Astaire version is also featured in The Green Mile, Rain Man and The Purple Rose of Cairo, when Top Hat is being viewed. Irving Berlin (May 11; 1888 .    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Irving Berlin (May 11; 1888 September 22; 1989) was a Belarusian-born American composer and lyricist; and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley Broadway songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs.Although he never learned to read music beyond a rudimentary level; with the help of various uncredited musical assistants or collaborators; he eventually composed over 3;000 songs; many of which (e.g. -God Bless America-; -White Christmas-; -Anything You Can Do-; -There-s No Business Like Show Business-) left an indelible mark on music and culture worldwide. He composed seventeen film scores and twenty-one Broadway scores. "Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin, and first performed by Fred Astaire in the movie Top Hat (1935). His 1935 recording with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000. 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 quickly became a standard of the Great American Songbook. (They were parodied by Berlin himself in his subsequent.
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