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Slidin' Selena live in Groningen http://www.dixielandcrackerjacks.com Cheek to Cheek - Combo Bert Brandsma November 7. 2009, Euroborg Groningen Classic jazzstandard, Cheek to Cheek. 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 Ella Fitzgerald (see her Irving Berlin Songbook), 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. Recorded versions exist by : Larry Adler Ambrose Julie Andrews Ray Anthony Louis Armstrong Fred Astaire (1935 #1 hit) Chet Atkins Count Basie Tony Bennett - Bennett/Berlin (1987) Polly Bergen Irving Berlin Stanley Black Pat Boone Boswell Sisters Connee Boswell Sam Browne Charlie Byrd Carmen Cavallaro Eva Cassidy June Christy Rosemary Clooney Alma Cogan Ken Collyer Desi Arnaz Ray Conniff Bing Crosby