DANCING ON THE CEILING

Created on 26/03/2010
Latest update on 14/09/2023

Artist: Jessie Matthews & Sonnie Hale
Author: Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart
Label: Monmouth
Year: 1930

First written (as He Dances On My Ceiling) for Broadway musical Simple Simon but skipped. Picked up for West End musical Ever Green where it became the most popular song. Jessie also sang it in the film version of '34.

Covers:

1930:

Jack Hylton [on His Master's Voice; hit US in '32]

1944:

Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orch.

1945:

Artie Shaw

1949:

June Christy

1950:

Helen Forrest

1952:

Peggy Lee

1955:

Frank Sinatra

1955:

Jackie Gleason

1956:

Ella Fitzgerald

1956:

Ted Heath

1960:

Joni Jones

1960:

Johnny Mathis

1962:

Dodie Stevens

1967:

Supremes

1998:

Twiggy

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