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5 unusual facts about The Way You Look Tonight


Linnzi Zaorski

In 2002, Zaorski and Delta Royale recorded their self-titled debut album, including standards such as "The Way You Look Tonight", "Stars Fell on Alabama", and "Dream a Little Dream".

Steve Tyrell

Tyrell's performance singing "The Way You Look Tonight" in Father of the Bride, starring Steve Martin, pushed him center-stage as a vocalist, with live performances and a recording career of his own.

The Way You Look Tonight

It is also sung by Allison Munn in the series finale of the WB sitcom What I Like About You and was used in the Friends episode "The One With Unagi." The song was also performed by the band MouseRat on the "Parks and Recreation" episode "Galentine's Day", wherein Andy Dwyer dedicated it to April Ludgate.

"The Way You Look Tonight" is a song featured in the film Swing Time, originally performed by Fred Astaire.

Tony Butala

It was this lineup that brought the group its first success, as the Lettermen scored their first Top 40 hit at #13 on the US charts with "The Way You Look Tonight"; it went gold in the US.


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#"The Way You Look Tonight" Live (Music: Jerome Kern, Lyrics: Dorothy Fields) – 4:04


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Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart

Currently, "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" is tied with Hey Jude for third amongst longest-running No. 1 songs by British artists on the Billboard pop charts, behind "Candle in the Wind 1997"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight" by Elton John (14 weeks, 1997-1998) and "We Found Love" by Rihanna with British artist Calvin Harris (10 weeks, 2011).

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook

Awarded four and a half stars by Down Beat Magazine in 1963, this album contains a fine selection of Jazz standards, with All the Things You Are, (named by Tony Bennett as his favourite song), a wistful Oscar winning The Way You Look Tonight, which contrasts beautifully with Sinatra's more famous swinging version from his 1964 album Sinatra Sings...Academy Award Winners, and A Fine Romance from Astaire and Roger's Swing Time.