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"Dancing on the Ceiling", a Rodgers and Hart standard, was popularized by Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald in the early '30s. It appeared in the 1934 movie Evergreen, which was based on a musical that played exclusively in London. Beauregard performs "Dancing on the Ceiling" on episode 415 of The Muppet Show. While he sings from his bed, the ghost of a pink Whatnot girl literally dances on his ceiling.

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  • Dancing on the Ceiling
  • Dancing on the ceiling
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  • "Dancing on the Ceiling", a Rodgers and Hart standard, was popularized by Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald in the early '30s. It appeared in the 1934 movie Evergreen, which was based on a musical that played exclusively in London. Beauregard performs "Dancing on the Ceiling" on episode 415 of The Muppet Show. While he sings from his bed, the ghost of a pink Whatnot girl literally dances on his ceiling.
  • Two possibilities exist for this: The first, and more likely, option is that it refers to the Lionel Richie song off of his album of the same name, the second, less likely, option is that it refers to the Richard Rogers/Lorenz Hart song from the 1930 musical "Evergreen." The song later regained popularity when Ella Fitzgerald included it in her 1956 album "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook".
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Date
  • 1930(xsd:integer)
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Genre
Video
Artist
Source
  • Evergreen
Composer
Publisher
  • Warner Bros. Inc.; Williamson Music Co.
Director
Year
  • 1986(xsd:integer)
abstract
  • "Dancing on the Ceiling", a Rodgers and Hart standard, was popularized by Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald in the early '30s. It appeared in the 1934 movie Evergreen, which was based on a musical that played exclusively in London. Beauregard performs "Dancing on the Ceiling" on episode 415 of The Muppet Show. While he sings from his bed, the ghost of a pink Whatnot girl literally dances on his ceiling.
  • Two possibilities exist for this: The first, and more likely, option is that it refers to the Lionel Richie song off of his album of the same name, the second, less likely, option is that it refers to the Richard Rogers/Lorenz Hart song from the 1930 musical "Evergreen." The song later regained popularity when Ella Fitzgerald included it in her 1956 album "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook".
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