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Swing Time is a 1936 American musical comedy film, the sixth of ten starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Directed by George Stevens for RKO , it features Helen Broderick , Victor Moore , Betty Furness , Eric Blore and Georges Metaxa , with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields .
Open rolls are another good example of an open dance figure, in which the follower alternates between the lead's left and right sides, with the lead's left or right arm (alone) providing the lead. Waltzes were the staple of many American musicals and films, including "Waltz in Swing Time" sung by Fred Astaire. [citation needed]
A Fine Romance performed on tenor sax by Jules Grandgagnage "A Fine Romance" is a popular song composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, published in 1936. The song was written for the musical film, Swing Time, where it was co-introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Swing time is a time feel in jazz music. Swing Time may also refer to: Swing Time, a 1936 movie directed by George Stevens starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; Swing Time, a 2016 novel by Zadie Smith; Swing Time Records, a record label active in the 1940s and '50s
Never Gonna Dance is a Broadway musical featuring the music of Jerome Kern.The musical was based on the 1936 Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film Swing Time.Lyricists include Oscar Hammerstein, Ira Gershwin, P. G. Wodehouse, Bernard Dougall, Johnny Mercer, Jimmy McHugh, Otto Harbach, and Dorothy Fields.
On occasion a bar may seem like one singular beat. For example, a fast waltz, notated in 3 4 time, may be described as being one in a bar. Conversely, at slow tempos, the beat might even be a smaller note value than the one enumerated by the time signature. [example needed] Mathematically the time signatures of, e.g., 3 4 and 3 8 are ...
"Harlem Swing" [5] Nat King Cole "I Got Rhythm" 1930 George Gershwin "Hesitation" [16] 1982: Wynton Marsalis "I Got Rhythm" 1930: George Gershwin "Hi Beck" [1] Lee Konitz "Pennies from Heaven" 1936 Arthur Johnston "Hip Hip Hooray" [5] Nat King Cole "I Got Rhythm" (different bridge) 1930 George Gershwin "Hit That Jive, Jack" [5] Skeets Tolbert
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's first movie together was Flying Down to Rio (1933).. Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) and Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) were dance partners in a total of 10 films, 9 being released by RKO Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and 1, The Barkleys of Broadway, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1949, their only Technicolor film.