<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> "The Way You Look Tonight" (1961) </Td> <Td> "When I Fall in Love" (1961) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> "The Way You Look Tonight" (1961) </Td> <Td> "When I Fall in Love" (1961) </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Way You Look Tonight" is a song from the film Swing Time, written by Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern, and originally performed by Fred Astaire . It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936 . In 2004 the Astaire version finished at #43 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema . </P> <P> The song was sung to Ginger Rogers as Penelope "Penny" Carroll by Astaire in character as John "Lucky" Garnett, while Penny was busy washing her hair in an adjacent room . The song was written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and has become a standard . Fields later remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry . The release absolutely killed me . I couldn't stop, it was so beautiful ." </P>

Who sang the original the way you look tonight