During the week of September 20, 1935, all five Irving Berlin songs from Top Hat ("Cheek to Cheek," "No Strings," "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails," and "The Piccolino") were featured in the nation's top 15 song hits on the popular radio show "Your Hit Parade," the first time a single composer had that many songs on one show. "Cheek to Cheek" set a record for staying in the top ten for eleven weeks.

Two Irving Berlin songs from Top Hat, "Cheek to Cheek" and "No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)," were used in Kenneth Branagh's musical version of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost (2000).

"Cheek to Cheek" (sung by Fred Astaire) was also featured in The English Patient (1996) and in The Green Mile (1999).

"Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" (as performed by Astaire) was featured in Billy Elliot (2000).

The title was spoofed in the comic short Top Flat (1935), with Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly.

Some of the film's dance numbers were spoofed in other releases around the same time. Near the beginning of the movie, Astaire awakens a furious Rogers by dancing loudly around the hotel room above hers. After she complains and returns to her bed, he lulls her to sleep with a soft-shoe on sand. Buster Keaton parodied this in his comic short Grand Slam Opera (1936). He tap dances over furniture, even the mantel, of his seedy rooming house accommodations waking the woman in the room below. When she complains, he lulls her to sleep by dancing on the spilled fillings of a fire bucket (minus a chewed-up cigar). The gazebo dance to "Isn't This a Lovely Day (To Be Caught in the Rain)" is also referenced in Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937). Eleanor Powell and George Murphy dance on a covered bandwagon to escape a rainstorm, but at the end they leave their shelter and frolic in puddles.

by Rob Nixon