The Way You Look Tonight

Frank Sinatra recorded The Way You Look Tonight in 1964 with Nelson Riddle's orchestra for an album of Academy Award winning songs, and it has become the version most couples mean when they ask for it. Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields wrote the song for Fred Astaire in the 1936 film Swing Time, where it won the Oscar for best original song. Couples choose it because the lyric is about one look at a partner that will carry you through hard times, and Riddle's arrangement swings at an easy pace that suits a foxtrot or a simple two step. AllMusic counts it among Sinatra's classic performances.