"Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin for the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie Top Hat. In the movie, Astaire sings the song to Rogers as they dance. The song was nominated for the Best Song Academy Award for 1936, which it lost to "Lullaby of Broadway". Astaire's recording of the song spent five weeks at #1 on Your Hit Parade.
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.
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