 For "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails", probably Astaire's most celebrated tap solo, the idea for the title song came from Astaire who described to Berlin a routine he had created for the 1930 Ziegfeld Broadway flop "Smiles" called "Say, Young Man of Manhattan," in which he gunned down a chorus of men – which included teenagers Bob Hope and Larry Adler – with his cane.Berlin duly produced the song from his trunk and the concept of the film was then built around it.In this number Astaire had to compromise on his one-take philosophy, as Sandrich acknowledged