Artist: Tamara
Author: Jerome Kern/Otto Harbach
Year: 1933
In Broadway musical (Gowns By) Roberta with Bob Hope.
Covers:
Gertrude Niesen [first recording (for Victor)]
Irene Dunn [in film version Roberta]
Phyllis Robins [also in BBC tv-series Pennies From Heaven]
Platters [n°1 US & UK]
Boris Vian [with the Michel de Villers orchestra as Fumée aux yeux; instr.]
Allan Sherman [as Smog Gets In Your Eyes]
Serge Gainsbourg [on Rock Around The Bunker; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes used to be Eva Braun's favorite song, driving Hitler mad]
Philippe Laumont [as Amour dans ses yeux]
Jerry Garcia [in film Smoke]
John Alford [hit UK]
Otto Harbach and Jerome Kern also cowrote Yesterdays (also in Roberta). Both Yesterdays and Smoke Gets In Your Eyes weren't popular until after film Roberta came out. For more Jerome Kern, see: I've Told Every Little Star, Ol' Man River and Song Of India.
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Arnold Rypens
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