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"Let's Face the Music and Dance" is a notable song, written by Irving Berlin for the film Follow the Fleet (1936), where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and featured in a celebrated dance duet with Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It is also used in Pennies from Heaven (1981 film), where Astaire's voice is lip-synched by Steve Martin, and in a celebrated Morecambe and Wise sketch involving newsreader Angela Rippon.^[1]

Barbra Streisand performed a line in her "Color Me Barbra Medley" from the TV special and album "Color Me Barbra".

Notable recordings

• Frank Sinatra - Ring-A-Ding-Ding (1961), Trilogy: Past Present Future (1981)
• Tony Bennett - The Beat of My Heart (1957), Bennett/Berlin (1987)
• Anita O'Day - Pick Yourself Up (1956)
• Nat "King" Cole (1961)
• Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (1958)
• Diana Krall - When I Look in Your Eyes (1999)
• Bea Arthur - Bea Arthur On Broadway: Just Between Friends (2002)
• Barbara Cook - Mostly Sondheim (2002) - in a medley with "The Song is You" (Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein, II)
• Natalie Cole - Stardust
• Emma Bunton - (2008)

References