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Puttin' On Your Top Hat: A Tribute to Fred Astaire
- Benjamin Pope conductor
- Rachel Weston vocalist
- Gary Williams vocalist
- Berlin Top Hat: Cheek to Cheek
- Berlin Follow the Fleet: Let’s Face the Music and Dance, Easter Parade: A Couple of Swells; Blue Skies: Puttin' on the Ritz
- Kern Roberta: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and I Won’t Dance
- Kern Swing Time: A Fine Romance and The Way You Look Tonight
- Porter Gay Divorce: Night and Day and The Continental
- Schwartz The Band Wagon: Dancing in the Dark, That’s Entertainment and By Myself Alone
- Gershwin Funny Face: ‘Swonderful
- Gershwin Lady, Be Good: Fascinating Rhythm
- Gershwin Shall We Dance: They Can’t Take That Away From Me and Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off
The greatest dancer of them all, and the music inspired by him, is recalled by his daughter Ava Astaire McKenzie. Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Billy May are all legendary songwriters, famous for their style and wit, who composed for Fred Astaire. These songs have become popular to a whole new generation, through shows like Strictly Come Dancing, but have never really gone out of fashion.
Sponsored by PZ Cussons.
