CONTINENTAL, THE

Created on 30/01/2003
Latest update on 18/08/2020

Artist: Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
Author: Herb Magidson/Con Conrad
Label: RKO Pictures
Year: 1934

In film The Gay Divorcee. Won the very first Oscar for best film song. See also: Night And Day.

Covers:

1934:

Django Reinhardt

1934:

Leo Reisman [n°1 US]

1936:

Red Nichols

1943:

Frank Sinatra

1945:

Xavier Cugat

1946:

Tommy Dorsey

1947:

Eddie Heywood

1951:

Mario Lanza

1952:

Oscar Peterson

1956:

Les Brown

1959:

Tito Puente

1960:

Nat King Cole

1963:

Polly Bergen

1976:

Maureen McGovern [top 20 UK]

1979:

Steve Howe

1979:

Peter Skellern

1980:

Herb Alpert

1991:

Pasadena Roof Orch.

1996:

Sam Brown

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