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The Way You Look Tonight
Some years ago I was hired to play for an 80th birthday party. Although no special music was requested, I thought it would be nice to play something that had been popular when the guest of honor was in his 20s. Leafing through an anthology of tunes from the 1930s, I came across this Jerome Kern melody. It was premiered by Fred Astaire in the 1936 movie “Swing Time,” and won the Oscar for best song. I’ve always liked it, and since it fit the time period I was trying to evoke, I now had a reason to do an arrangement for solo guitar. Normally this is a gentle ballad. But for some reason I ended up doing it as an up tempo beguine.
RKO Radio Pictures (1936)
