“Cheek to Cheek” is a song written by Irving Berlin, and first performed by Fred Astaire in the movie Top Hat (1935). Astaire’s 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. The lyrics were parodied by Berlin himself in his subsequent song He Ain’t Got Rhythm, from the film On the Avenue (1937)
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