The Way You Look Tonight - Swing Time - Jerome Kern

The Way You Look Tonight
(Jerome Kern)
(Frank Sinatra)

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The Way You Look Tonight
by Jerome Kern

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The Way You Look Tonight ” is a song from the film Swing Time that was performed by Fred Astaire and composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Dorothy Fields. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936.Fields remarked, “The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release absolutely killed me. I couldn’t stop, it was so beautiful.”
In the movie, Astaire sang “The Way You Look Tonight” to Ginger Rogers while she was washing her hair in an adjacent room. His recording reached the top of the charts in 1936. Other versions that year were by Guy Lombardo and by Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday.

Lyrics


The Way You Look Tonight

Some day, when I’m awfully low
When the world is cold
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight

Yes, you’re lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft
There is nothing for me but to love you
And the way you look tonight

With each word your tenderness grows
Tearin’ my fear apart
And that laugh, wrinkles your nose
Touches my foolish heart

Lovely, never, never change
Keep that breathless charm
Won’t you please arrange it?
‘Cause I love you

A-just the way you look tonight
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose
It touches my foolish heart
Lovely, don’t you ever change

Keep that breathless charm
Won’t you please arrange it?
‘Cause I love you
A-just the way you look tonight

Mm, mm, mm, mm,
Just the way you look tonight

Songwriters: Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern