Favorite Songs From Movies: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

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Daylight Saving Time! Now we have an extra hour to sit inside and watch it be cold outside. As it can’t make up its mind what it wants to do (appears Phil was right, we’re having six more weeks of winter…just not right after he made the prediction ), I’ll warm up with hot tea and another great movie song. Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers And NJ Chic? Before you say “nope,” you DO know a line from this song. Everybody does. This is the song that gave us the immortal line “You say to-MAY-to, I say to-MAH-to.” (Of course, down here in the south we say to-may-ter. ) As for why this wasn’t nominated in 1937, it wasn’t original. Les Brown had recorded it a year before it debuted in Shall We Dance. But let’s face it: Les didn’t have Fred and Ginger dancing on roller skates to the song!!! Things like this make me miss the golden age of dance numbers in movies. Some of them are absolutely magical (Donald O’Connor’s “Make ‘Em Laugh” segment), and this is one of them. Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off Written by George and Ira Gershwin Recorded by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers From Shall We Dance, 1937 Something must be done: