Astaire (Way To Paradise)

Between 1935 and 1938, because of the influence of one man, five of America's best songwriters wrote 28 songs that collectively stand as a museum exhibit of the form. The writers were Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, and the man who elicited this body of work was Fred Astaire.

William Zinsser
Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs
Godine, 2001, p103