That's Entertainment, Part II together for the first time since the 1946 film "Ziegfeld Follies", and for only the second time in their careers. (It was the last time 76-year-old Astaire danced on film, though the veteran actor continued to make film and TV appearances into the 1980s; Kelly would go on to appear in the 1980 musical "Xanadu".) According to film historian Robert Osborne, in specially-filmed introductions produced for Turner Classic Movies, it was Astaire who suggested to Kelly that the two take advantage of this potentially last-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform together, something Kelly actually wishes for out loud during his narration of
The Astaire Story session – "Mr. Top Hat"; "The Irving Berlin Songbook"; "Steppin' Out: Astaire Sings". In the EU, after the original recording's performers'/producers' rights expired, additional European releases appeared under different names, e.g. "Jazz Time" (Proper) 2003; "Oscar Peterson and Fred Astaire: Complete Norman Granz Sessions" (Jazz Factory) 2005. Recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, December, 1952: The Astaire Story The Astaire Story is a 1952 album by Fred Astaire. The album was conceived of and produced by Norman Granz, the founder of Clef Records (and later Verve Records), who was also responsible for the Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts,