Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Composer US Billboard Hot 100 Topper

Lyricist Otto Harbach and composer Jerome Kern wrote a show tune for their 1933 operetta Roberta and titled it Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. Further, Gets in Your Eyes composers tune was adapted by Irene Dunne who performed it for the 1935 film adaptation that starred Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott and Fred Astaire.

Again, in 1958 the song was recoded by the doo wop group The Platters which stole the limelight as the number one hit one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Jerome Kern, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes composer, perhaps might not have realized that the song would be received by the audience so well.

Incorporation of the song Smoke Gets in Your Eyes time and again suiting different requirements continued further. In 1956, Vic Damone added another hue to it by adding certain interesting, dramatic elements. It became his one of the most famous songs. Boots Randolph well known saxophone player on the B-side of his LP Yakety Sax made an acoustic cover of the song. In 1974, Bryan Ferry in his album Another Time, Another Place recorded a quavering, briefly popular version of the song which made to the 17 position on the UK charts in September, that year. In the meanwhile, the career of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes composer also made progress.

The Hollywood career of Kern, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes composer was indeed quite successful. He wrote The Way You Look Tonight for Swing Time, which bagged the Academy Award for the best song in 1936.In 1941, he along with Hammerstein wrote The Last Time I Saw Paris as a tribute to the French city that was recently occupied by the Germans. Later it was used in the film Lady Be Good and it won the Oscar for the best song. This song made history in yet another way. This was the only song that did not actually belong to the movie but which won an Oscar. While Kern primarily wrote for musical theatres, his compositions have such harmonic richness that they can equally contribute well to jazz.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes never quite lost its glory. Hitherto, it has featured in many films such as George Lucas's American Graffiti (1973) and Golden Globe-winning film Being Julia, directed by István Szabó in 2004. Steven Spielberg made the Platters' rendition the centerpiece song in his movie Always in 1989 and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 2006 film, Three Times has the song in both its plot and soundtrack. The pilot episode of the AMC original drama Mad Men of 2007 is titled as Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. Thus, while Smoke Gets In Your Eyes composer, Jerome Kern died of a stroke in 1945 at the age of 60; the song has kept him alive in the memory of its aficionados. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes