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Rolling Stone magazine ranked the Flamingos' version #157 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. This version peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song is a jazz standard, and has been covered by thousands of musicians. [1] Play time: 3:15 FACEBOOK - CLICK HERE to see our top picks of the day on our music group on Facebook! To post this song into Facebook...just copy the URL and past it into the Facebook comment field More Flamingos Free Music Videos and songs To Listen and watch Artist Flamingos album music videos... Just click on the song title links that you see below, to play. Your Free Music Videos Playlist By default, we play all of our songs randomly selected from our playlist; however, you can choose the songs you want played by selecting all or some songs below and adding them to your playlist. You can also browse all songs and update your playlist at View/Edit Your Playlist . Step 1: Select your Free Music Videos. Step 2: click on 'Add Selections' button to update your list.

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Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Mar 29, 2014 Bergo '45 Song of the Week #39 - Calvin's Pick for 3/30/14: "I Only Have Eyes For You" by The Flamingos from Flamingo Serenade (1959) End Records "The lyrics are devotedly romantic, but the shadowy voice singing them calls from somewhere out in the fog. Wonderfully atmospheric, this song manages to be deeply unsettling as well. It's one of the greatest and most influential recordings ever made." - Calvin Lewis This is a weekly dive into the musical mind of Bergo '45. Each week, a new song is chosen by a different member of the band. Check out the playlist to see all of the past selections. Grab a towel and give it a listen.... With their elegant, intricate and flawless vocal arrangements, the Flamingos are widely regarded as one of the best vocal groups in music history.

The graceful vocals and sharp choreography of Motown’s biggest stars – the Temptations, the Supremes, the Jackson 5 and the Miracles among them – owe a debt to the Flamingos, as do such paragons of Philadelphia soul as the Spinners, and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Although many of the Flamingos’ recordings did not make the pop charts or even get heard beyond a regional fan base, they have with hindsight acquired a reputation as vocal-group classics. In particular, their third single, “Golden Teardrops,” has been hailed as “the most perfect-sounding single of all time” and “a legendary masterpiece.” Yet it failed to reach the national pop charts upon its initial release in 1953, and a reissue eight years later stalled at Number 108. Still, the Flamingos put 11 singles on the pop chart and nine singles on the R&B chart between 1956 and 1970. Two of those singles made the Top 10: “I’ll Be Home” (Number Five R&B) and “I Only Have Eyes For You” (Number Three R&B and Number 11 pop).

The Flamingos formed in 1952 in Chicago, where they sang in a church choir. Somewhat uniquely, the congregation to which founding members Jake Carey, Zeke Carey, Paul Wilson and Johnnie Carter belonged was the black Jewish Church of God and Saints of Christ. Having mastered the minor-key melodies of Jewish hymns, they retained this influence when they began singing pop and R&B. Initially known as the Swallows, then the Five Flamingos, and eventually just the Flamingos, they became a quintet with the addition of Earl Lewis. They signed to the Chicago-based Chance label in 1953. By then, they had a new lead vocalist, Sollie McElroy, who was discovered at a talent show. They recorded in a variety of styles, including midtempo ballads (“Someday, Someway”), lowdown blues (“Blues in a Letter”), pop standards (“That’s My Desire”) and jump tunes (“Jump Children”). From Chance, they moved to Parrot, where they recorded a handful of singles, including the ballad “Dream of a Lifetime” and the uptempo “Ko Ko Mo,” and acquired yet another lead singer, Nate Nelson.

In 1955, they signed with Chess Records and released records on its Checker subsidiary. Deejay Alan Freed thought highly enough of the Flamingos to include them in two of his late-Fifties rock and roll flicks: Rock, Rock, Rock (in which they performed “Would I Be Crying”) and Go Johnny Go! (“Jump Children”). In 1958, the group moved to George Goldner’s End Records, and they moved from Chicago to New York City as well. Their lineup now consisted of Zeke and Jake Carey, Paul Wilson, Nate Nelson, new singer Tommy Hunt and guitarist/singer Terry Johnson, the Flamingos cut some of their most enduring sides for End, including the exquisite “Lovers Never Say Goodbye” and their satiny signature song, “I Only Have Eyes for You”. The latter, originally a 1934 hit for Ben Selvin, is one of the most sublime and enduring vocal-group recordings of all time. While at End, the Flamingos released four albums, including Flamingo Serenade, a masterful album of pop standards by Cole Porter, George Gershwin and others.

Although the Flamingos’ popularity tailed off in the Sixties with the rise of the British Invasion bands, they continued recording and performing down the decades. After the deaths of cousins Jake and Zeke Carey, Terry Johnson continued to lead and perform with a new line-up of the Flamingos. All rights belong to their respective owners © End Records I Only Have Eyes for You - Johnny Mathis | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic I Only Have Eyes for You AllMusic Rating google+ AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione In 1976, the Johnny Mathis / Jack Gold singer/producer team reunited after 1975's stint with producer John Florez for the When Will I See You Again album. It's right back to that familiar and successful groove on I Only Have Eyes for You , with Gene Page arranging and conducting Gold 's production work. A movie theme and adult contemporary reworkings continue the song selection from the year before. Where "Mandy" led off the When Will I See You Again LP, it's "I Write the Songs" here, and though he doesn't write them, it's a nice swim through Bruce Johnston 's greatest hit.

Likewise, "Laughter in the Rain" graced the previous disc, while a wondrous reading of Neil Sedaka 's "The Hungry Years" emerges this time around. The real nugget here, though, is a song written by Harriet Schock specifically for Mathis , a tune not on any of her own albums. "Ooh What We Do" is a special moment where Mathis is breathing life into a title untouched by his contemporaries. Schock gave AMG some insight on how the song came to be: "It was not on any of my albums. I taught it to Johnny in the studio and he really liked it. He was reading the lyric to a friend who was in there with him. He had been an idol of mine when I was a child. 'I drink up your liquid movements like I'm dying of thirst...I could watch you stand forever, but come on over here first...how could we be so together when we're so unrehearsed....' Anyway, Jack Gold of Columbia Records produced it. He had signed me to Columbia before I went to 20th Century Fox, a little-known fact. When the payola scandal hit, a lot of artists got dropped.

I was among them. I hadn't even recorded for them yet. This was about 1972...so Jack was very familiar with my work even before 'Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady.' He was a very witty, eloquent man -- Jack Gold . When people would show him songs or acts and he didn't like them, they would occasionally say, 'I'm going to have to go over your head to Clive with this,' to which he would reply, 'Over my head and around my back...the two most traveled paths in America.' I loved him. He died a few years ago. That's my little story about 'Ooh What We Do.' At the end when I have 'hari krishna, amen...,' at one point I had 'oy vey,' but they took that out." What they didn't take out is a line "both of us slowly stalking each other for so long," which seemed so innocent in 1976. But what the song does uncover is the idea that Mathis could have gotten away with putting a few more top-flight songs on his albums in the '70s.

"Ooh What We Do" is an exciting departure from the predictability of Sondheim 's "Send in the Clowns," though Mathis just does everything so well, and there is safety in numbers. Billy Sherrill and Charlie Rich 's "Every Time You Touch Me (I Get High)" has a dazzling arrangement, and moments like this make the covers worthwhile. Still, the artist got more coverage when he hit number one again with "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" two years after this, 21 years after "Chances Are" first accomplished that feat. "Ooh What We Do" might've fared better had it been the title track rather than the up-tempo, almost disco version of the Flamingos ' signature tune. The Las Vegas-style arrangement of the 1959 hit "I Only Have Eyes for You" survives because of Mathis ' voice and style, but it is the new song he discovered here that brings magic to this collection. Track Listing SONGS ABOUT EYES | Theme Park Radio SONGS ABOUT EYES Posted by Lyn McCarthy This week the EYES had it as I created a playlist about what poets call the ‘window of the soul’.

Our 100TH PROGRAM showcased a diverse range of artists, from the 50’s right through until some more recent releases. We also celebrated this important milestone with a couple of fantastic giveaways for our loyal listeners: tickets to a private screening of the new David Fincher film, The Social Network , courtesy of the Dendy Cinemas, and a copy of the Red Army album from hot reggae band The Red Eyes , courtesy of Ku Promotions. Thanks to everyone for listening (and reading!) during this period. Here’s to the next 100! In 2001 the list of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included such superstars as Michael Jackson, Paul Simon, and Aerosmith. Further down the list in terms of public recognition were The Flamingos, who were best known for their 1959 hit I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU. They are rightfully ranked as one of the most sophisticated doo wop groups in American popular music. Charles Edward Anderson Berry, otherwise knows as “Chuck” turned 84 on October 18. I don’t think anyone would argue when I claim that he is one of the most influential musicians of his time.

He contributed BROWN EYED HANDSOME MAN to the mix. Elvis Costello, surely one of Chuck’s disciples, had his first hit single in 1977 with a song about a girlfriend who couldn’t stop watching television. The song, of course, is WATCHING THE DETECTIVES. “She’s filing her nails while they’re dragging the lake”. Brilliant. The Chi-Lites also had a huge hit in 1971 with HAVE YOU SEEN HER. Check out this clip for a PBS special featuring guest artist Eugene Record. Loving the zoot suits! Jazz singer Ernestine Anderson has some good advice on KEEP AN EYE ON LOVE. She reckons that you just have to keep looking for it and eventually it turns up. I’d be careful if I was her though. If the Hall and Oates song PRIVATE EYES is any indicaton, there are a few stalkers out there ready to pounce. These boys are continually watching the object of their affection. But we already know that love makes you do silly things. Right?

LOOK AT THE FOOL is from Tim Buckley’s album of the same name, his ninth and final album before his untimely death in 1975. Jackson Browne’s DOCTOR MY EYES was featured on his debut album Jackson Browne, released in 1972. Here he is singing live, with an awesome band, in 2009. As well as DOCTOR MY EYES, this clip includes ABOUT MY IMAGINATION. Browne is still a great performer and his looks don’t seem to have diminished either! We followed the terrific 1967 funk track, I SPY FOR THE FBI, from Jamo Thomas, with (See) HOW FAR WE’VE COME, from Matchbox 20’s Exile on Maintream album, released in 2007. The song has been used to promote everything under the sun. But we won’t hold that against them. Jamesetta Hawkins is better known to us as Etta James. This rendition of I’D RATHER GO BLIND, where she duets with Dr. John, practically brought me to tears.

See if it has the same effect on you: And as Etta would say ‘At Last!’ we have some nice weather up here in the Northern Rivers, after months of rain. (Although as I write this the rain is back…..aarrggghhhhh). Nevertheless, I had to celebrate a couple of days of brilliant sunshine with I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW from Jimmy Cliff. Let me ask you this: What do David Bowie, George Washington and Louis Pasteur have in common? Well they have what’s called heterochromia: i.e. each of their eyes is a different colour. In Bowie’s case one eye is blue and the other brown. Aren’t you glad to know that? When it comes to songs about eyes, you can’t go past 60’s soul, and our next triple play more than proved the point: Doris Troy was seduced with JUST ONE LOOK, The Contours went gold-digging on FIRST LOOK AT THE PURSE and The Temptations sang I WANT A LOVE I CAN SEE. Van Morrison’s 1967 single BROWN EYED GIRL would prove to be the impetus for his whole career as a solo artist.

It was to be his first single after leaving the band Them and it led to his relocation to the United States and an eventual contract with Warner Brothers Records where he would record his career-defining album Astral Weeks. In the same year The Who released I CAN SEE FOR MILES AND MILES, the only single from the The Who Sell Out album. Recorded in several separate sessions in studios across two continents, the recording of I CAN SEE FOR MILES exemplifies the increasingly sophisticated studio techniques of rock bands in the late 1960s. The backing tracks were recorded in London, the vocals and overdubbing were performed in New York at Talentmasters Studios, and the album was mastered in Los Angeles at the Gold Star Studios. The Beatles 1965 hit I’M LOOKING THROUGH YOU was written mainly by Paul McCartney and it first appeared on their Rubber Soul album. It was written about Jane Asher, McCartney’s girlfriend of five years: “You don’t look different, but you have changed,” the lyrics declare, reflecting his dissatisfaction with their relationship. When I announced that this week’s theme was to be EYES, I was inundated with requests for the Platters version of SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES.

Well, of course, it had to make the list – an absolute classic. Winonie Harris reckons that he can tell all sorts of things from looking into a set of BLOODSHOT EYES while Little Milton was out to prove that you can’t always judge a book by its cover on JUST BECAUSE YOU SEE ME SMILING Billy Idol’s EYES WITHOUT A FACE is from his 1983 album Rebel Yell. Reportedly filmed in a marathon 30-hour session, the video’s extensive filming used fog machines, lighting, and fire sources that nearly fused Idol’s contact lenses. At the conclusion of filming, Idol attempted to leave, and promptly passed out on the studio lawn from exhaustion. Initially mistaken for a vagrant, a police officer who roused Idol was alarmed at his reddened eyes. The officer immediately brought Idol to a local hospital, where doctors were able to coax out the lenses, saving his vision. OMG. Captain Beefheart was unusually restrained on HER EYES ARE A BLUE MILLION MILES and we followed with Sinead O’Connor’s DAMN YOUR EYES from her 1990 album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.

No matter what you think of her political viewpoints, there is no denying the power in her voice. Being our 100th show, I gave myself a gift and closed the show with two of my favourite artists: As regular listeners know, according to me Roy Orbison can do no wrong. And how could I resist when he tells me “One look from me and he drifts away”, on YOU GOT IT. Tim Buckley is also a favourite and we said goodbye with DEVIL EYES from the outstanding album Greetings From LA. Next week’s program will be on CARNIVALS, CIRCUSES AND FUNFAIRS. Ooh I’m really looking forward to this one. Let me know if you have any suggestions for the playlist. I can always do with your help! Until next week, remember what Gandhi said: “An eye for an eye turns the whole world blind.” Here’s this week’s complete list: I Only Have Eyes For You – Heart of Rock ‘n’ Roll: 59, The Flamingos Smoke Gets In Your Eyes – The Missing Chapters Vol.

5: Glenn Miller Orchestra Brown Eyed Handsome Man – 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection, Chuck Berry Watching The Detectives – My Aim Is True, Elvis Costello Have You Seen Her – Greatest Hits, The Chi-Lites Inside Out – Red Army, The Red Eyes Keep An Eye On Love – Testify, Ernestine Anderson Private Eyes – Top Hits Of The 80’s, Hall and Oates Look At The Fool – Twentyfourseven, Tim Buckley Doctor My Eyes – The Next Voice You Hear: The Best Of Jackson Browne, Jackson Browne I Spy For The FBI – Soul Cargo Vol.

1 (The Early Years Of “Groove”, Jamo Thomas How Far We’ve Come – Exile On Mainstream, Matchbox Twenty I’d Rather Go Blind – The Sweetest Peaches – Part Two (1967-1975), Etta James I Can See Clearly Now – Deﬁnitive Collection, Jimmy Cliff Just One Look – Mermaids, Doris Troy First Look At The Purse – This Is Soul, The Contours I Want A Love I Can See – My Girl: The Very Best Of The Temptations, The Temptations Brown Eyed Girl – Best Of Van Morrison, Van Morrison I’m Looking Through You – Rubber Soul, The Beatles I Can See For Miles – The Who Sell Out, The Who Smoke Gets In Your Eyes – Easy Listening Gold: 1958-1959, The Platters Bloodshot Eyes – The Best of Wynonie Harris, Wynoni Harris Just Because You See Me Smiling – Movin’ to the Country, Little Milton Eyes Without A Face – Top Hits Of The 80’s, Billy Idol Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles – Clear Spot, Captain Beefheart Damn Your Eyes – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (Special Edition

) Sinéad O’Connor You Got It – Mystery Girl, Roy Orbison Devil Eyes – Greetings From L.A., Tim Buckley Next week: SONGS ABOUT CARNIVALS, CIRCUSES & FUNFAIRS Listen to Lyn McCarthy at the Theme Park on BayFM, Tuesdays 4-6pm, Sydney time Also streaming via BayFM The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You - YouTube The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You Want to watch this again later?

Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Jun 26, 2009 From 1959 Solid Gold Soul. CLICK HERE HD SOUND VERSION The Flamingos - I only have eyes for you. The song was written by Harry Warren in 1934, lyrics by Al Dubin, for the movie Dames starring Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. The 1934 origin of this song. . It was later featured in the movie A Bronx Tale. FOR MORE INFO ON THIS SONG CLICK HERE Played on a Bang & Olufsen Beogram turntable model RX 2, through a Pioneer SX 1080 Receiver bi-amped using Magneplanar Magnepan speakers with a powered 12" sub-woofer.

Category Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (I Only Have Eyes for You) More on Al Dubin at JazzBiographies.com More on Harry Warren at JazzBiographies.com The second time the song appears, Powell is riding the subway and sees Keelerï¿½s face everywhere he looks. The dream sequence that follows features the extraordinary choreography of co-director Busby Berkeley whose dancers all wear Ruby Keeler masks. In his book Hollywood Musicals Clive Hirschhorn describes the dance: ï¿½Highspot of the number is the jigsaw made by the girls as each, equipped with a board on her back, bends over so the boards interlock to form a giant-size picture of Ruby.ï¿½ As with many of Warren and Dubinï¿½s songs, ï¿½I Only Have Eyes for Youï¿½ was created as a production number and had little to do with the characters or the plot. Warner Brothers paired the songwriting duo with Berkeley in other films because the exciting pulse of their music matched the dazzling visual energy of Berkeleyï¿½s dance numbers.

According to Philip Furia in his book The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of Americaï¿½s Great Lyricists , ï¿½What lifts such a lyric above the usual run of film songs is Dubinï¿½s ability to match Warrenï¿½s insistent melody with casually conversational phrases: Are the stars out tonight?

I donï¿½t know if itï¿½s cloudy or bright, ï¿½cause I only have eyes for you ï¿½Beneath such casually understated passion is an emotional progression intensified by insistent rhymes such as the I/eye in the title phrase and ï¿½For youï¿½ with ï¿½or on a crowded avenue.ï¿½ He drives the lyric more forcefully still by following ï¿½avenueï¿½ with ï¿½You are here, so am I,ï¿½ just as Warrenï¿½s music pushes the end of the release into the final A section.ï¿½ The song charted three times in 1934, coming in at #2, #4, and finally #20: Ben Selvin and His Orchestra (1934, Howard Phillips, vocal) Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra (1934, Lew Sherwood, vocal) Jane Froman (1934) Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 The song was a hit for the popular doo wop group the Flamingos in 1959, and their

 version was included in the 1973 film American Graffiti and in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer named after the song.

The Lettermen had a hit with it in 1966, and Art Garfunkelï¿½s 1975 recording of it was a number one hit in England. The song was also featured in the 1980-81 Broadway revival of the Tony award-winning musical 42nd Street and was named the most recorded song in the 20th century top ten by ASCAP. (Author/composer Wilder analyzes the music in his definitive book on American popular song.) See the Reading and Research page for this tune for additional references. - Sandra Burlingame Getting Started This section suggests definitive or otherwise significant recordings that will help jazz students get acquainted with ï¿½I Only Have Eyes for You.ï¿½ These recordings have been selected from the Jazz History and CD Recommendations sections. Billie Holidayï¿½s 1952 recording of ï¿½I Only Have Eyes for Youï¿½ (Billie Holiday Sings) demonstrates the songï¿½s compatibility with swinging rhythms, an approach furthered by Joe Williams in 1959 (Music for Lovers).

Among instrumental versions, Coleman Hawkinsï¿½ 1944 recording stands out (Verve Jazz Masters 34), thanks to his ingenious playing as well as that of pianist Teddy Wilson and trumpeter Roy Eldridge. I Only Have Eyes For You by The Flamingos Songfacts I Only Have Eyes For You by The Flamingos Songfacts Songfacts This song was written by Henry Warren and Al Dubin for the Busby Berkeley movie musical Dames in 1934, where it was introduced by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. Ben Selvin recorded it that same year and landed at #2 on the charts. The Flamingos recorded it in 1959, and it also appeared on the American Graffiti soundtrack from 1973. Frank Sinatra recorded this in 1962 with the Count Basie Orchestra, and Johnny Mathis named an album after this song in 1976. The Count Basie Orchestra did it again in 1990 with George Benson; Art Garfunkel made a very romantic version on his 1975 Breakaway album, which topped the UK chart and peaked at #18 in the US.

The Lettermen did a version in 1966, and Jerry Butler covered it in 1972. >> Suggestion credit: Ragnar - Horten, Norway, for above 2 The Flamingos honed their vocals at the Church of God and Saints of Christ in Philadelphia, where there were no musical instruments, just voices. The songwriter/producer Phil Hurtt , who also attended this church, told us: "If you listen to the harmonies of The Flamingos, you can hear one of the things that separated them from a lot of the Doo-Wop groups was their sound. Flamingos' sound was a smoother, accurate harmony. Their blend was awesome." The Flamingos' version was arranged and co-produced by Terry "Buzzy" Johnson, a Baltimore native who joined the group as a first tenor in 1956. Fellow Flamingo Nate Nelson encouraged him to go crazy with the song, but he couldn't figure out what to do with it. All he knew was the other versions were way too vanilla for his taste. The answer finally came to him in a dream.

He told Sound on Sound: "I was laying down in my room with the guitar on my chest, playing around with the chords, but no matter what I tried it just didn't fit. Finally, it was about 12 or one in the morning, and I was so tired that I fell asleep, and in my dream I heard 'I Only Have Eyes For You' just the way it came out on our record. I heard the 'doo-bop sh-bop' [backing vocals], I heard the way the harmony would sound - I heard the harmony so clear, and I heard the structure of the chords. As soon as I woke up, I grabbed the guitar off my chest and it was like God put my fingers just where they were supposed to be. I played those chords and I heard the harmonies, and so I called the guys. I woke them all up and I said, 'Come over to my room right now! I've got 'I Only Have Eyes For You'!' They were like, 'Are you crazy?

It's almost four o'clock!' and I said, 'I need you all now, otherwise I may not be able to remember.' So they came to my room, all of them grumbling, and when they heard me do it they looked at me like, 'What the hell is this?' They laughed at me: 'What's 'doo-bop sh-bop, goo-bop sh-bop, boo-bop sh-bop, loo-bop sh-bop, shoo-bop sh-bop"?' You see, although in my dream it was 'doo-bop sh-bop', I had everybody doing a different thing, changing things around to make sure no one could really pick out what we were saying." George Goldner, who produced the track with Johnson, didn't think it was commercial enough to be a single, so the group kept it as an album track and recorded a cover of Russ Columbo's "Goodnight Sweetheart" for the first single. That is, until DJs got wind of "I Only Have Eyes For You" and changed their mind.

Jake Carey (bass) was the shortest member of the group, which made it difficult when he couldn't reach the mic at the same level as the other guys during the recording session, where the music and vocals were being recorded simultaneously. To his dismay, they asked him to stand on a stack of phone books. "He was mad as hell," Johnson told Sound on Sound. "He said, 'I'm not a midget!' but we told him, 'We're not going to bend our necks down to suit you. The mic has got to be at a certain level for all of us.' So, we put Jake on three or four phone books and that's how we recorded, with the background singers on one mic and the lead guy on another." Art Garfunkel performed his rendition on the second episode of Saturday Night Live, which aired on October 18, 1975 and was hosted by Paul Simon. The Flamingos' version was featured in several movies, including the 1983 astronaut drama The Right Stuff, starring Ed Harris, and the drag racing drama Heart Like a Wheel, also in 1983.

It also prominently appeared in the 1991 comedy Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead during a romantic beach scene with Christina Applegate and Josh Charles, and in the 1991 drama My Girl, starring Anna Chlumsky and Macaulay Culkin. It was used in the 1993 Robert De Niro film A Bronx Tale and in the 2003 romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give, starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton. The '90s hip-hop group the Fugees sampled this on "Zealots" from their 1996 album, The Score.

Platters - I Only Have Eyes For You - 1956 - Music Videos,Lyrics Platters - I Only Have Eyes For You - 1956 Lyrics My love must be a kind of blind love I can't see anyone but you Sha bop sha bop Are the stars out tonight I don't know if it's cloudy or bright I only have eyes for you dear The moon may be high But I can't see a thing in the sky I only have eyes for you I don't know if we're in a garden Or on a crowded avenue You are here and so am I Maybe millions of people go by But they all disappear from view And I only have eyes for you Platters - I Only Have Eyes For You - 1956 Playlist: Pause Some trivia about Platters - I Only Have Eyes For You - 1956 "I Only Have Eyes For You" is a popular song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin, written in 1934 for the film Dames where it was introduced by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. According to Billboard magazine, the song was a #2 hit for Ben Selvin in 1934.

The orchestras of Peter Duchin and Anson Weeks also figured in the song's 1934 popularity. This song was recorded in 1950 by Peggy Lee, and most notably by The Flamingos in 1959, becoming one of their most popular hits. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the Flamingos' version #157 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. This version peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; later, this version was included on the soundtrack for the 1973 film American Graffiti. An episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is named after this song, and features the version by The Flamingos. It is also used as a recurring theme in a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies cartoon of the same title, released on March 6, 1937 and directed by Tex Avery. The lines "Are the stars out tonight / I only have eyes for you" are sung by a male penguin in the animated film "Happy Feet" (2006).

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Question: Which band had a 1959 hit with the song ‘I Only Have Eyes For You’?
Answer: The Flamingos