The Platters – “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” (1958)

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[simpson96]

Hope you enjoy.Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

[simpson96]

music *ping*

[ThomasMore]

Awesome group. I loved that song.

[ThomasMore]

My Prayer
The Great Pretender
Twilight Time
Only You
I’m Sorry
The Magic Tough

They just don’t write classics like this anymore.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Tony Williams had such a perfect singing voice. The Platters hits are timeless.

[sparklite2]

There was a parody written that went ...

They asked me how I knew
My career was through...

[Vigilanteman]

Real music by a group with real talent. I found out later that their singers changed over the years. Caught the Michael Savage show one night some years ago when one of the group called in. He was so interesting that Savage keep him on the line for close to 20 minutes and two commercial breaks.

Great guy and no fan of political correctness. I liked what he had to say so much that I went on-line and bought their greatest hits album when I got home.

[simpson96]

That’s nice to know. Thanks.

[Vendome]

Love singing these songs at karaoke

[TBP]

A lot of Broadway music got adapted in the 1950s. “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” was written by Jerome Kern (music) and Otto Harbach (lyrics) for the musical 1933 “Roberta”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_Gets_in_Your_Eyes

Another song of the same era that got famously adapted in the same time frame as “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” was “Blue Moon”, by the Broadway songwriting team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Lorenz Hart (lyrics). (IMO, Hart is one of the greatest lyricists ever.)

Rodgers so hated the 1961 Marcels version that he actually took out newspaper ads urging people not to buy it, even though, as the composer, he received royalties when they did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Moon_(1934_song)

[Fiji Hill]

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes--Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra (late 1933-early '34)

[Fiji Hill]

How many song lyrics do you know that contain the verbs “to chaff” and “to deride”?

[Fiji Hill]

Rodgers so hated the 1961 Marcels version that he actually took out newspaper ads urging people not to buy it, even though, as the composer, he received royalties when they did.

Sadly for Richard Rodgers, the Marcels' version of "Blue Moon" is now the default version.

[simpson96]

None!

Lyrics are so unfortunately dumbed down these days.

[TBP]

When I was in college, we had the Marcels’ version on teh jukebox. Since I had hte hour before choir off, I would go to the Student Union, buy myself a Coke, put “Blue Moon” and “Sherry” on the jukebox, and try to sing along with every note.