Father of the Bride"The way you look tonight" performed by Steve Bone.Day 294 of the JSC.

The Way You Look Tonight is a song featured in the film Swing Time, originally performed by Fred Astaire. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. The song was sung to Ginger Rogers as Penelope "Penny" Carroll by Astaire's character of John "Lucky" Garnett while Penny was busy washing her hair in an adjacent room, and feeling anything but beautiful at the time. The song was written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and has become a standard. Fields later remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release absolutely killed me. I couldn't stop, it was so beautiful.
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For the song written by Elton John, see Something About the Way You Look Tonight.
"The Way You Look Tonight"

Single by The Lettermen
from the album A Song for Young Love
B-side "That's My Desire"
Released 1961
Format 7" single
Genre Pop standard
Length 2:21
Label Capitol
Writer(s) Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern
The Lettermen singles chronology
— "The Way You Look Tonight"
(1961) "When I Fall in Love"
(1961)

The Way You Look Tonight is a song featured in the film Swing Time, originally performed by Fred Astaire. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. The song was sung to Ginger Rogers as Penelope "Penny" Carroll by Astaire's character of John "Lucky" Garnett while Penny was busy washing her hair in an adjacent room, and feeling anything but beautiful at the time. The song was written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and has become a standard. Fields later remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release absolutely killed me. I couldn't stop, it was so beautiful."[1]

[edit] Cover versions
Billie Holiday recorded this song in the same year as the film; her version can be found on several collections including her Columbia box set from 2001. It has also been recorded by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Andy Williams, Chad & Jeremy, Bryan Ferry, Olivia Newton-John, Harry Connick, Jr., Rod Stewart, James Darren, Michael Bublé, Steve Tyrell, Joey McIntyre, Maroon 5, Ray Quinn, Kris Allen, and in the 1930s as a duet between Bing Crosby and his then-wife Dixie Lee. The song also gave The Lettermen their first hit in 1961, hitting #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

Jazz pianist Art Tatum has an instrumental recording which appears n the collection The Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces. Saxophonist Johnny Griffin covered this song in the hard bop jazz style on his 1957 A Blowing Session album. Pianist Bradley Joseph performs his arrangement of "The Way You Look Tonight" on his 2006 album, Piano Love Songs.

In the 1942 film Once Upon a Honeymoon, Cary Grant says to Ginger Rogers that he always wants to remember "you just the way you look tonight — er, today", a reference to Rogers' appearance in the film in which the song was first heard. "The Way You Look Tonight" is referenced in Harold Pinter's 1971 play Old Times, in which two characters recite some of the lines. Greater use of "The Way You Look Tonight" is made in Brian Friel's 1979 play Faith Healer, which quotes and makes repeated references to the song. The playing of the Fred Astaire original is the beginning of Teddy's monologue in act two. The song itself is featured in movies including Chinatown, Hannah and Her Sisters, Father of the Bride (1991), My Best Friend's Wedding, and the Kenneth Branagh films Peter's Friends and Love's Labour's Lost (2000). The James Darren cover forms the background music for the "Seven-year Montage" in the final episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "What You Leave Behind". It is also sung by Allison Munn in the series finale of the WB sitcom What I Like About You.

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[liberguty]

thank you steve for posting your sound is fantastic I practice the altisimo and thousands of thanks

[groovetonemusic]

@liberguty thanks for the support...

[treadman26]

Your tone is impeccable; phrasing sublime.

[groovetonemusic]

@treadman26 Thanks for that...

Cheers, Steve...

[jimmyblackjazz]

Not bad for a beginner!!! LOL!

I'm sure with a bit more practice you could be quite a good player when you're older!!!

All the besst mate.

[groovetonemusic]

@jimmyblackjazz Thanks for that Gav. I'm trying to improve everyday. I'm just in the process of editing the video clips from the first Saxobones gig (Quintet). It's great to watch and take notes on what can be improved for the next outing, also what worked well and should be kept.

Cheers Steve...

[MrJFA1978]

great

[OfficialAnFMusic]

@OfficialAnFMusic Hey thanks I will be down in Cornwall but I will be there for a month so I am able to go anywhere. Does your quintet have any upcoming gigs I would love to see you guys play live.

[groovetonemusic]

@OfficialAnFMusic Hi, it depends where you are going! If your going to London, you must visit Ronnie Scotts. Let me know where you are going to be based and I will try and point you in the right direction.

Cheers Steve...

[staguk334433]

Well that was very smooth Steve. I do not know if it is you new mouth peice or Bois Lig but it sounds wonderful and very mellow. Good work.