<P> "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 . </P> <P> In 1997, it was used in a famous advert for Allied Dunbar . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <Ul> <Li> Bea Arthur--Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends (2002) </Li> <Li> Tony Bennett--The Beat of My Heart (1957), Bennett / Berlin (1987) </Li> <Li> Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga--Cheek to Cheek (2014) </Li> <Li> Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band--All Smiles (1968) (aka Let's Face the Music) </Li> <Li> Shirley Bassey--Let's Face the Music (1962) </Li> <Li> Nat King Cole--Let's Face the Music! (1964) </Li> <Li> Natalie Cole--Stardust (1996) </Li> <Li> Barbara Cook--Mostly Sondheim (2002)--in a medley with "The Song is You" (Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein, II) </Li> <Li> Doris Day--Hooray For Hollywood (1959) </Li> <Li> Ella Fitzgerald--Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (1958) </Li> <Li> Jane Krakowski --' The Laziest Gal in Town'--Jane Krakowski Live at Feinsteins's Loews Regency (2010)--Solo Album </Li> <Li> Diana Krall--When I Look in Your Eyes (1999) </Li> <Li> Susannah McCorkle--Ballad Essentials (2008) </Li> <Li> Anita O'Day--Pick Yourself Up (1956) </Li> <Li> Taco Ockerse--Let's Face The Music (1984) </Li> <Li> Renato Russo--The Stonewall Celebration Concert (1994) </Li> <Li> Frank Sinatra--Ring - A-Ding - Ding (1961), Trilogy: Past Present Future (1980) </Li> <Li> Caetano Veloso--Omaggio a Federico e Giulietta (1999) </Li> <Li> Steph Le Sueur--L&D gets Musical (2016) </Li> <Li> Seth MacFarlane - Sing and its soundtrack (2016) </Li> </Ul>

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