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The Platters – “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” (1958)
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| 9/19/2016
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Posted on 09/19/2016 7:45:03 AM PDT by simpson96
Hope you enjoy.Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
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posted on
09/19/2016 7:45:03 AM PDT
by
simpson96
To: trisham; hoosiermama; Dawgreg; OddLane; Fiji Hill; Chgogal; originalbuckeye; ...
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posted on
09/19/2016 7:45:30 AM PDT
by
simpson96
To: simpson96
Awesome group. I loved that song.
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posted on
09/19/2016 7:46:08 AM PDT
by
ThomasMore
(We're edging closer and closer to a civil war! Blame the politicians!)
To: simpson96
My Prayer
The Great Pretender
Twilight Time
Only You
I’m Sorry
The Magic Tough
They just don’t write classics like this anymore.
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posted on
09/19/2016 7:49:56 AM PDT
by
ThomasMore
(We're edging closer and closer to a civil war! Blame the politicians!)
To: simpson96
Tony Williams had such a perfect singing voice. The Platters hits are timeless.
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posted on
09/19/2016 7:56:17 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: ThomasMore
There was a parody written that went ...
They asked me how I knew
My career was through...
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posted on
09/19/2016 8:04:02 AM PDT
by
sparklite2
(The game overs whether you play it or not.)
To: simpson96
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.
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posted on
09/19/2016 8:05:39 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
To: Vigilanteman
That’s nice to know. Thanks.
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posted on
09/19/2016 8:20:20 AM PDT
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simpson96
To: simpson96
Love singing these songs at karaoke
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posted on
09/19/2016 9:56:19 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
To: simpson96
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)
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posted on
09/19/2016 10:45:14 AM PDT
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TBP
(0bama lies, Granny dies.)
To: simpson96
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posted on
09/19/2016 12:29:03 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
(Io Triumphe!)
To: simpson96
How many song lyrics do you know that contain the verbs “to chaff” and “to deride”?
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posted on
09/19/2016 12:32:23 PM PDT
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Fiji Hill
(Io Triumphe!)
To: TBP
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.
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posted on
09/19/2016 12:35:04 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
(Io Triumphe!)
To: Fiji Hill
None!
Lyrics are so unfortunately dumbed down these days.
To: Fiji Hill
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.
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posted on
09/19/2016 4:13:27 PM PDT
by
TBP
(0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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