Single:
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes entered the Australian singles chart* on 10 January 1959 and peaked at #1. The song was #1 on the Top 100 of 1959.
Album:
The song is on The Platters’ 1959 album Remember When.
Songwriters:
Composer, Jerome Kern; lyricist, Otto Harbach
Producer:
Buck Ram
Record label of Australian release:
Mercury
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Songfacts:
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes was written in 1933 for the musical Roberta, starring Bob Hope. The lyrics were written by Otto Harbach and the music by Jerome Kern.
In 1934, four different recordings charted by Paul Whiteman, Leo Reisman, Emil Coleman and Ruth Etting.
Although The Platters recording has become the definitive version, recordings have been made by Artie Shaw (1941), Harry Belafonte (1950), Sarah Vaughan (1958), and others.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-platters/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes
Lyrics:
They asked me how I knew
My true love was true
I of course replied
Something here inside
Can not be denied
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