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4 unusual facts about Let's Face the Music and Dance


Let's Face the Music and Dance

The BBC used Nat King Cole's version of the song as their theme music for the mockumentary series Twenty Twelve.

It is also used in Pennies from Heaven, where Astaire's voice is lip-synched by Steve Martin, and in a celebrated Morecambe and Wise sketch involving newsreader Angela Rippon.

In "New Killer Star", song from David Bowie 2003 album Reality, there's a reference of the title before the chorus.

"Let's Face the Music and Dance" is a song written in 1936 by Irving Berlin for the film Follow the Fleet, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and featured in a celebrated dance duet with Astaire and Ginger Rogers.



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