Let's Face The Music And Dance
"Let's Face the Music and Dance" is a song written in 1936 by Irving Berlin for the film Follow the Fleet, 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, where Astaire's voice is lip-synched by Steve Martin, and in a celebrated Morecambe and Wise sketch involving newsreader Angela Rippon.
Barbra Streisand performed a line in her "Color Me Barbra Medley" from the TV special and album "Color Me Barbra".
In "New Killer Star", song from David Bowie 2003 album Reality, there's a reference of the title before the chorus.
The BBC used Nat King Cole's version of the song as their theme music for the mockumentary series Twenty Twelve.
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Famous quotes containing the words face, music and/or dance:
“People do not think themselves ugly, just as no horse thinks its face is long.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Did the kiss of Mother Mary
Put that music in her face?
Yet she goes with footstep wary,
Full of earth’s old timid grace.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“You whig emblem, you woman chaser,
why do you dance over the wide lawn tonight
clanging the garbage pail like great silver bells?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)