Dancing on the Ceiling is a 1930 pop standard composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Lorenz Hart for the London musical Ever Green, and it was introduced by Jessie Matthews. It originally appeared in the production Simple Simon but was cut before the premiere; Matthews sang it again in the 1934 film Evergreen. An early popular US recording came in 1932 by Jack Hylton and His Orchestra with Pat O’Malley. The song is a jazz influenced show tune that has become a staple of the Rodgers and Hart repertoire, with notable album versions by Frank Sinatra on In the Wee Small Hours (1955) and Ella Fitzgerald on Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956). It gained continued fame when it was correctly identified for a $100,000 prize on Name That Tune in 1977.
