Let's Face the Music and Dance (song)

"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.

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.

Notable recordings

 * Bea Arthur - Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends (2002)
 * Tony Bennett - The Beat of My Heart (1957), Bennett/Berlin (1987)
 * Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band - AllSmiles (1968) (aka Let's Face the Music)
 * Shirley Bassey - Let's Face the Music (1962)
 * Nat King Cole - Let's Face the Music! (1964)
 * Natalie Cole - Stardust (1996)
 * Barbara Cook - Mostly Sondheim (2002) - in a medley with "The Song is You" (Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein, II)
 * Doris Day - Hooray For Hollywood (1959)
 * Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (1958)
 * Jane Krakowski - 'The Laziest Gal in Town' - Jane Krakowski Live at Feinsteins's Loews Regency (2010) - Solo Album
 * Diana Krall - When I Look in Your Eyes (1999)
 * Susannah McCorkle - Ballad Essentials (2008)
 * Anita O'Day - Pick Yourself Up (1956)
 * Taco Ockerse - Let's Face The Music (1984)
 * Frank Sinatra - Ring-A-Ding-Ding (1961), Trilogy: Past Present Future (1981)
 * Caetano Veloso - Omaggio a Federico e Giulietta (1999)