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Isn't This a Lovely Day

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"Isn't This a Lovely Day?" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 film Top Hat, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire in the scene where his and Ginger Rogers' characters are caught in a gazebo during a rainstorm. The lyric is an example of a song which turns a bad situation into a love song, a common style for Irving Berlin, as in I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm and Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee.

Notable recordings

  • Tony Bennett - Bennett/Berlin (1987)
  • Petula Clark - Petula Clark in Hollywood (1959)
  • Bing Crosby on the 1965 album Bing Crosby's Treasury - The Songs I Love
  • Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (1958)
  • Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong on the 1956 Verve release Ella and Louis
  • Stacey Kent - Let Yourself Go: Celebrating Fred Astaire (2000)
  • Diana Krall - From This Moment On (2006)
  • Jeri Southern - Southern Breeze (1958) (re-issued 1998 together with Coffee Cigarettes and Memories)

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    Isn't This a Lovely Day? Wikipedia
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