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The Flamingos — I Only Have Eyes for You
Album: Greatest Hits
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Released: 1959
Length: 3:18
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My love must be a kind of blind love
I can't see anyone but you

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
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Lovely song, what WTAF are the backing vocalists singing?!
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Posted 7 months ago by Pitjes    [ Reply ]
Hold it. 

Is the chorus singing:  "ja bob a bop" or "ha jap a bob"?
Posted 8 months ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
    Ahhhhhhh...    
Posted 1 year ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
I've never been able to make out what the background singers are saying. I thought it was Shabop Shabop, but it's definitely something else.

Posted 1 year ago by Laptopdog    [ Reply ]
this is my all-time favorite song.

i'm sad i haven't been the subject of this song... :(
Posted 1 year ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
This is what I love so much about RP.... Songs like this sandwiched between Jeff Buckley and Gregory Alan Isakov...
Posted 1 year ago by waterwench21    [ Reply ]
A pure 10.
Posted 1 year ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
This was the song played at my sister's wedding. Turned out it wasn't true.
Posted 1 year ago by xray38    [ Reply ]
 cc_rider wrote:

"I Only Have Eyes for You" is a popular romantic love 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.

1934! Who knew? Besides the interwebs, I mean. What a perfect song - and a perfect cover.




Thank You for the info!
Posted 2 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
Incredible.

Songs do not get any better than this.
Posted 2 years ago by brillo    [ Reply ]
This is definitely one of the best of the 1950s.  Wish I had a little taste of what it was like living back then.
Posted 2 years ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
Another masterpiece.
Posted 2 years ago by liveaudio608    [ Reply ]
, Back in the day when the vocals outclassed the instruments 👍
Posted 2 years ago by Easyrider    [ Reply ]
The first time I ever heard this song when I watched American Graffiti, a fine film imho,. It is still lovely isn't it?
Posted 2 years ago by mach-hog    [ Reply ]
Was implemented so well in The Right Stuff; but I am not sure that is the "true" meaning...
Posted 2 years ago by mjbaumann    [ Reply ]
very lovely tune.  i like every version of this that I have heard.  I think it was Art Garfunkel's version that first made me take notice, back in the 70's perhaps?
Posted 3 years ago by billybob123    [ Reply ]
The sound of romance.
Posted 3 years ago by danoodles    [ Reply ]
What a tune.
Posted 3 years ago by lovelyhelicopter    [ Reply ]
Back in the day when the vocals outclassed the instruments 👍
Posted 3 years ago by Easyrider    [ Reply ]
Posted 3 years ago by Easyrider    [ Reply ]
Posted 3 years ago by sunflowerbee    [ Reply ]
Perfection.
Posted 4 years ago by garyalex    [ Reply ]
If this is on the “best of…“ Album, I’d hate to hear the B-Sides
Posted 4 years ago by mdnlsn    [ Reply ]
This was a great choice for lockdown
Posted 4 years ago by heiligenwho    [ Reply ]
"I Only Have Eyes for You" is a popular romantic love 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.

1934! Who knew? Besides the interwebs, I mean. What a perfect song - and a perfect cover.
Posted 4 years ago by cc_rider    [ Reply ]
 KevinM wrote:
joe1 wrote:
Kevin?...May I suggest you get a life and dispense with those fecking stooopid 'balls' that you post all the time..? ok?....
Some songs deserve the "fecking stooopid 'balls'".
 
Are  they sweeter smelling than "schwetty balls"?    

Posted 4 years ago by the_jake    [ Reply ]
Not my generation, but I've always loved this song.  Simple, but beautiful.
Posted 4 years ago by LuvsMusic    [ Reply ]
This should have been the background track during the Gimp scene in Pulp Fiction. Perfect Tarantino dissonance. 
Posted 4 years ago by NeuroJoe    [ Reply ]
 hschlossberg wrote:
Whenever I hear this song, I feel like I'm on day three of a bad drug trip where I can't get off the floor and I have big dark bags under my eyes and the world (and I) may have all just as well died.  NOT a good feeling.  Side effect of this trip is PSD!
 

sounds like PTSD, not PSD
Posted 4 years ago by jpfueler    [ Reply ]
I am this old and love hearing this song - it's still magic.
Posted 4 years ago by viewfinder509325    [ Reply ]
Dog wants fed and my dinner time also but ....can not tear myself away! 
Posted 5 years ago by countryrds    [ Reply ]
Definition of Godlike for those times for sure!

Oh, and This!
Posted 5 years ago by ExploitingChaos    [ Reply ]
Whenever I hear this song, I feel like I'm on day three of a bad drug trip where I can't get off the floor and I have big dark bags under my eyes and the world (and I) may have all just as well died.  NOT a good feeling.  Side effect of this trip is PSD!
Posted 6 years ago by hschlossberg    [ Reply ]
Great song indeed. Stands the test of time.
Posted 6 years ago by Rockit9    [ Reply ]
 msymmes wrote:
Heard this in an episode of The Crown.  A fantastic scene where Princess Margaret dances by herself in her bedroom.

 
YES!! Awesome use of this song in that scene.
Posted 6 years ago by amymich    [ Reply ]
Magic
Posted 6 years ago by onerb    [ Reply ]
Heard this in an episode of The Crown.  A fantastic scene where Princess Margaret dances by herself in her bedroom.
Posted 6 years ago by msymmes    [ Reply ]
excellent slow dance piece, hug em close and smell their rich hair, feel the smooth movement of their hips and caress of their hands

"Shoowop Shabop"   {#Hearteyes}
Posted 7 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Life is a struggle to find and appreciate what beauty we can find.  Here is a magical jewel. What a gift!
Posted 7 years ago by countryrds    [ Reply ]
Anybody else floating away right now? 8
Posted 7 years ago by Will62    [ Reply ]
 Skydog wrote:
Bill this was your smoothest move today,
From Great Lake Swimmers  "Think That You Might Be Wrong" to this{#Clap}

 
I agree! {#Cheesygrin}
Posted 7 years ago by water    [ Reply ]
Bill this was your smoothest move today,
From Great Lake Swimmers  "Think That You Might Be Wrong" to this{#Clap}
Posted 7 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
Love this song and the 50s production style and mix, even though it's befor my time.

I love the Art Garfunkel cover even more - very dreamy . Thanks  
Posted 7 years ago by garycha    [ Reply ]
Wonderful. Its one of the first songs I can remember, having grown up in an oldies-loving household.
Posted 7 years ago by jmkate    [ Reply ]
I've loved this song from the first time ever hearing it, a sleepy cosmic echo from heaven

(cool guy from Bones was an angel in Buffy : ) 
Posted 7 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Love this song, but always think of Buffy the Vampire Slayer now when I hear it. 

"The quality of mercy is not Buffy." - Xander Harris 
Posted 7 years ago by JayCee    [ Reply ]
How very 50ties! Choowabchoowab! LOL!! {#Bounce}
Posted 8 years ago by VH1    [ Reply ]
This is one of the greats from the late 50's , early 60's era.  The recording still sounds good and the arrangement set it above the crowd back then (yes, I'm old)
Posted 8 years ago by masteroflife    [ Reply ]
my wonderful husband and I danced to this at our wedding in 1986
can't believe it's been 30 years babe 
Posted 8 years ago by LaurieinTucson    [ Reply ]
OOOPS, pressed repeat button!!!
Posted 8 years ago by mgkiwi    [ Reply ]
Ah, yes.  This brings back memories of 8th grade and sock hops in the gymnasium on a rainy or snowy day and slow dancing with a lovely girl.  It may have been Dan Ingram on WABC AM radio who lead in to this song with one of his crazy stories of a street vendor pushing his cart of body parts down the city street calling out “I have hands and feet and arms and legs”.  When a blind man responded to his call, the vendor said … well, take a guess.
Posted 8 years ago by GreatNorthWoods    [ Reply ]
Awful! !
Posted 8 years ago by helgigermany    [ Reply ]
Art Garfunkle has a dreamy version of this.
Posted 8 years ago by ronniegirl    [ Reply ]
I like the key changes and the melodic structure.  The bridge is an unexpected and satisfying thing to listen to... and great to slow dance to.  I've given this song a ten for many years (still have the '45).  No way is this cheezy doowop.
Posted 8 years ago by GWoop    [ Reply ]
 Hannio wrote:
Makes me want to hear Ruben and the Jets.

 
Funny. That's what I was thinking as this was playing in the background during dinner prep. Frank did this in some ways better, both reverentially and as a sort of lark (I think). I was pondering as I listened to this that he must have appreciated this music, while obviously having moved into dimensions scarcely imagined by those who recorded these songs back in the 50s when his sensibilities were formed/mutated. Why did I give my Ruben and the Jets album away when I left home? After something like 40 years it no longer makes any sense to me, but at the time severing ties somehow involved this act.
Posted 8 years ago by bam23    [ Reply ]
Genius!
Posted 8 years ago by tiare    [ Reply ]
Another MC lose his life tonight, Lord
I beg that you pray to Jesus Christ, why
Oh Lord, father don't let him bury me, whoa

(sorry, my brain goes straight to the Fugees song that sampled the heck outta this song)
Posted 8 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
Makes me want to hear Ruben and the Jets.
Posted 8 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
{#Sunny}
Posted 9 years ago by Deadwing    [ Reply ]
 ottovonb wrote:
I would choose 1955 in a heartbeat…but I'm a white guy.
 
Me too (on both counts).
Posted 9 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
 ottovonb wrote:

I would choose 1955 in a heartbeat…but I'm a white guy.

 
Interesting question, and funny, I was just thinking as a woman, I'd probably pick now because my choices would be so narrow in the 50s. But there was more innocence and simplicity - sometimes I long for the days of not having so much as an answering machine. I give this song a 10, but it doesn't conjure up the 50s for me. 
Posted 9 years ago by RabbitEars    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:
Makes me think of drive-in restaurants with waitresses on roller skates.
An idealized vision perhaps, but a nice one nonetheless.
If you could be a teenager in 1955 or in 2015, which would you choose? . . .

 
I would choose 1955 in a heartbeat…but I'm a white guy.


Posted 9 years ago by ottovonb    [ Reply ]
this song made it on our wedding tape!  still married 30 years.:)  Thanks RP!
Posted 9 years ago by jgehred    [ Reply ]
A strong candidate for the most romantic song ever - and over 50 years old!
How many of today's songs will our children and grandchildren be loving 50 years from now?
Posted 9 years ago by ottovonb    [ Reply ]
Makes me think of drive-in restaurants with waitresses on roller skates.
An idealized vision perhaps, but a nice one nonetheless.
If you could be a teenager in 1955 or in 2015, which would you choose? . . .
Posted 9 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
I've loved this song from the first time I heard it all those years ago.
Posted 9 years ago by bachbeet    [ Reply ]
 brighthue wrote:
Very dreamy, like floating on air. The vocals, the production and that slow, perfectly-maintained tempo... aahhh... Say what you want but, most pop music today should be this good.
 
It's lovely. The "doobopshopbop" bit is pure gold. 
Posted 9 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
I came by to see if anyone had mentioned Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (I liked the song before but now I associate it entirely with that BtVS episode...) One did, but the rest of you are making me feel young with the American Graffiti nostalgia.  {#Wink}  Even though I'm old enough to remember 8 track?
Posted 9 years ago by Koan    [ Reply ]
Wicked cool...  As the snow flies outside on the bleakest of gray afternoons, it feels like I'm in a smoky old black and white movie... 
Posted 9 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
played at a good time. stress level was rising. all better now.
Posted 9 years ago by blkstd    [ Reply ]
bluedot wrote:
dude or sister, let it GO. if bill wants to throw in some cheesy do-wop once in a while, that's no reason to get your knickers all in a twist! do-wop is an important and honorable part of the heritage of rock musack. just be glad it's the real thing and not some lame imitator like jimmy page or brian setzer.
1. There are people that don't like cucumbers?!?!? 2. This is NOT cheesey do-wop, though it does exist. 3. The Honeydrippers EP is excellent! And it was Robert Plant and Brian Setzer. The track is a 10 in my opinion. It just doesn't get much more "dreamy" than that.
Posted 20 years ago by bigpomp    [ Reply ]
This was a classic "slow dance" song from my youth, one of the top five at every sock hop I ever went to; was amazed at how well the production is on this track all these years later. It wears well with time.
Posted 20 years ago by Mikec445    [ Reply ]
Posted 20 years ago by AlleyKoolestKat    [ Reply ]
mperetz wrote:
It's interesting that I feel awkward posting a negative rating of a song because of all of the snots out there who lecture me every time about 'appreciation' - DON'T LECTURE ME. I'm 38, I've been around - and I've listened to millions of songs from every country on the planet - at least that which is accessible and available. I find this type of song makes me turn to my stereo and literally forces me to log-in and say that I can't frigging stand it. Sorry. Sue me. I hate it. Can you account for that? No - I think not. Can I account for it? No - not really. Why does one person like cucumbers and the other doesn't? I adore this station- - and I think that there is a tendency (at least amongst a party of me, myself, and I ) to only logon to say negative things. That's human nature. Sue me. I adore this station and support it in every way.
dude or sister, let it GO. if bill wants to throw in some cheesy do-wop once in a while, that's no reason to get your knickers all in a twist! do-wop is an important and honorable part of the heritage of rock musack. just be glad it's the real thing and not some lame imitator like jimmy page or brian setzer.
Posted 20 years ago by bluedot    [ Reply ]
Pure romance.
Posted 20 years ago by zipper    [ Reply ]
It's interesting that I feel awkward posting a negative rating of a song because of all of the snots out there who lecture me every time about 'appreciation' - DON'T LECTURE ME. I'm 38, I've been around - and I've listened to millions of songs from every country on the planet - at least that which is accessible and available. I find this type of song makes me turn to my stereo and literally forces me to log-in and say that I can't frigging stand it. Sorry. Sue me. I hate it. Can you account for that? No - I think not. Can I account for it? No - not really. Why does one person like cucumbers and the other doesn't? I adore this station- - and I think that there is a tendency (at least amongst a party of me, myself, and I ) to only logon to say negative things. That's human nature. Sue me. I adore this station and support it in every way.
Posted 20 years ago by mperetz    [ Reply ]
Is this a new trip hop group? (kidding.....) Ahh! variety!
Posted 20 years ago by cycleman    [ Reply ]
When I see lowest rating = "1" for songs like this (and so many others that are completely undeserving of that rating) it makes me wonder if there are listeners who just go out of their way to assign a "1" to EVERY song that's not in their own personal top 10 or something. Ridiculous. Perhaps this type of music requires an appreciation for intricate harmonies and vocal detail, doo-wop, r&b, and historical (sentimental?) context to really be truly enjoyed...but...even without that, the vocals and tune are lovely and classic. And...inoffensive, if I dare say. I understand "to each his/her own", and this song is not obviously enjoyed by every listener; however, I do not understand the strength of feeling against a song of this seemingly obvious merit that would warrant slamming it with a "1". :?
Posted 20 years ago by bev    [ Reply ]
Does anyone remember the theatrical cartoon from the 30s that was on TV in the 50s; with the Bird Iceman courting the Lady Bird, singing "I only have ICE for you"? I always think of that when I hear this one. Great song.
Posted 20 years ago by Gregorama    [ Reply ]
Brad_Eleven wrote:
Wow, hearing this after Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You" has me questioning just when psychedelic music showed up ... this is trippy stuff, between the cheesy lyrics.
Bill did it again, Mazzy Star followed by this. Nice. Before anybody complains remember that this is eclectic radio and this song is an all time classic. I played it so much I wore out my dad's cassette to the AG soundtrack. When he got his first CD player I gave him the CD as a present.
Posted 20 years ago by jeffro    [ Reply ]
LOVE THIS SONG!! Great memories.....my first date was to American Graffiti!!
Posted 20 years ago by Peyote    [ Reply ]
Inspired selection after the last Mazzy Star cut....!
Posted 20 years ago by cycleman    [ Reply ]
This has been wonderful - "Fade Into You" and now this. I'm floating away in my office chair, dreaming of late nights spent dancing with stars in my eyes.
Posted 20 years ago by istanbulbaby    [ Reply ]
Very dreamy, like floating on air. The vocals, the production and that slow, perfectly-maintained tempo... aahhh... Say what you want but, most pop music today should be this good.
Posted 20 years ago by brighthue    [ Reply ]
I like it.... nice harmonies too.
Posted 21 years ago by SuperWeh    [ Reply ]
this is my alltime favorite song ever. it was my wedding song.
Posted 21 years ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
Wow, hearing this after Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You" has me questioning just when psychedelic music showed up ... this is trippy stuff, between the cheesy lyrics.
sh-bop, sh-bop!
That would have scared me right out of my dad's 1958 Buick, if I'd been born yet and had the chance to experience testosterone overload... but, I digress.
Posted 21 years ago by Brad_Eleven    [ Reply ]
joe1 wrote:
Kevin?...May I suggest you get a life and dispense with those fecking stooopid 'balls' that you post all the time..? ok?....
Some songs deserve the "fecking stooopid 'balls'".
Posted 21 years ago by KevinM    [ Reply ]
Patti wrote:
Now how did I know that's what you would say?! pbm 8^)
That puke icon was designed for songs like this
Posted 21 years ago by KevinM    [ Reply ]
Wow! Flashback! No, not to the heyday of the Flamingoes, but right to San Francisco in the 80s, when the oldies station carried the A's baseball games. Since I've got baseball on the brain right now, this took me right to Red's Java House, where I'd have lunch and listen to KGO. Perfect.
Posted 21 years ago by ScottFromWyoming    [ Reply ]
KevinM wrote:
Now how did I know that's what you would say?! pbm 8^)
Posted 21 years ago by Patti    [ Reply ]
Nice transition, and I love the random sprinkling of oldies. Keep em comin...
Posted 21 years ago by ireneect    [ Reply ]
I find this song a bit creepy now, after the episode of Buffy by the same name and featuring this song.
Posted 21 years ago by gandalfbmg    [ Reply ]
Posted 21 years ago by KevinM    [ Reply ]
The epitome of a slow dance song. Excellent song!!!!
Posted 21 years ago by Drunkenlilacwine    [ Reply ]