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Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra

The Way You Look Tonight

1936 · via Dorothy Fields

Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra’s 1936 recording of “The Way You Look Tonight” is the earliest release on file. Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields are credited as its writers. Also recorded by Peggy Lee sings with Benny Goodman And His Sextet (released 1958), Frank Sinatra (released 1944) and Oscar Peterson (released 1957), among 538 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Fields wrote this one with Jerome Kern, and it traveled far: Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson had it on record back in 1936, before Sinatra, Ella and Astaire ever got to it. Put the Holiday side on first and hear how much room those words leave a singer.

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Credited writers: Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1936.

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Dorothy Fields shares the writing credit on "The Way You Look Tonight," a song later taken up by Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Fred Astaire. Who wrote it with her?Jerome Kern
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