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"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).

The song, as sung by Astaire, and separately by Ella Fitzgerald (see her 1956 album "Ella and Louis"), 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

"Cheek to Cheek" is also the name of a different song recorded in 2007 by the Swedish rock band Sahara Hotnights and another released in 2002 by the band The Starting Line.

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