Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds

Performance: Babes In Arms
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Roberta, (1933)

Otto Harbach (w), Jerome Kern (m)

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

1933

Otto Harbach (w)

Jerome Kern (m)

Roberta, 1933

VERSE

They asked me how I knew
My true love was true.
I of course replied,
Something here inside,
Cannot be denied.

They say someday you'll find,
All who love are blind,
When your heart's on fire,
You must realize
Smoke gets in your eyes.

BRIDGE

So I chaffed them and I gayly laughed
To think they could doubt my love.
Yet today my love has flown away
I am without my love.

VERSE

Now laughing friends deride
Tears I cannot hide,
So I smile and say,
When a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes.

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Aug 5

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2010

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2013

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Recital

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Recorded	Performers	Label	Cat.#	Matrix


	Gaylord Carter	Black & White	3000
	Dennis Day	Capitol	1610
	Dennis Day	Capitol	10013
	The King Cole Trio	Capitol	10074
	Buddy Cole With Guitar And Bass	Capitol	20053	492
	Joan Roberts	Columbia	39759	CO47931
	Larry Adler Harmonica	Columbia	35516	CO25930
	Robert Maxwell	Columbia	37865	CO36559
	Ambrose & His Orchestra	Decca	333-B	TB1703
	Buddy Morrow & His Orchestra	Mercury	3015	336
	Buddy Morrow & His Orchestra	Mercury	5024	336
	Platters	Mercury	71383
	Dinah Shore	RCA Victor	20-1542
	Al Goodman & His Orchestra	RCA Victor	20-1853
	Russ Case And His Orchestra	RCA Victor	20-2830B
	Art Tatum	RCA Victor	20-2911
	Charlie Ventura	RCA Victor	20-3467
	Freddy Martin & His Orchestra	RCA Victor	20-3643
	Dick Leibert (Organ)	RCA Victor	20-3783
	Chick Bullock's Levee Loungers	Romeo	2183	14447
	Roy Smeck's Trio	Romeo	2208	14629
	Ray Bloch & His Orchestra	Signature	15050-B	206-5A
	Ray Bloch & His Orchestra	Signature	15202	206
	Dick Liebert (Organ)	Victor	26712
11/01/1933	Gertrude Niesen (Contralto)	Victor	24454	78377
11/03/1933	Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra	Victor	24455-A	78511
11/14/1933	Emil Coleman's Riviera Orchestra	Columbia	2846-D	W152548
11/24/1933	Chick Bullock's Levee Loungers	Banner	32922A	14447
11/28/1933	Leo Reisman & His Orchestra	Brunswick	6715	14387=A/B
12/12/1933	Chick Bullock	Conqueror	8278	14447
12/12/1933	Chick Bullock's Levee Loungers	Melotone	M12865	14447
12/12/1933	Chick Bullock And His Levee Loungers	Oriole	2810	14447
12/12/1933	Chick Bullock's Levee Loungers	Perfect	15860	14447
12/19/1933	Don Walker & His Orchestra (H. King)	Vocalion	2607	14472
01/03/1934	Dick Robertson & His Orchestra	Sunrise	S-3409	81023
01/17/1934	Roy Smeck's Trio	Conqueror	8320	14629
01/17/1934	Roy Smeck's Trio	Melotone	M12909	14629
01/17/1934	Roy Smeck's Trio	Oriole	2835	14629
01/17/1934	Roy Smeck's Quartet	Perfect	11359	14629
01/23/1934	Roy Smeck's Trio	Banner	32959	14629
02/05/1934	Paul Cornelius & His Orchestra	Champion	16727	G19475
02/06/1934	Mcbride,Trafton	Champion	16732	G19486
02/09/1934	Ruth Etting	Brunswick	6769	14818
02/26/1934	Fray & Bragotti	Victor	24578	81745
03/31/1934	Victor Salon Orchestra	Victor	24609-A	81994
11/02/1934	Arthur Tracy	Decca	428-B	38943
07/20/1937	Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra	Victor	25657-B	11357
01/21/1939	Ruby Newman & His Orchestra	Decca	2301-A	64924
01/21/1939	Ruby Newman & His Orchestra	Decca	23617	64924
07/21/1939	Wayne King & His Orchestra	Victor	26329	038458
07/21/1939	Wayne King & His Orchestra	Victor	27453-B	038458
10/31/1939	Carmen Cavallaro (Piano & Acc)	Decca	3111-B	66815
06/25/1940	Dinah Shore	Bluebird	B10824	51562
07/25/1940	Al Goodman & His Orchestra	Columbia	35758	WCO28048
12/05/1940	Artie Shaw Gramercy Five	Victor	27335	55198
02/13/1941	Dave Apollon (Mandolin)	Decca	18137-B	68703
03/06/1941	Decca Salon Orchestra	Decca	18152-A	68789
04/07/1941	Teddy Wilson	Columbia	36631	CCO3653
06/04/1941	Benny Goodman & His Orchestra	Columbia	36284	CO30599
07/08/1941	Connee Boswell	Decca	18384-A	DLA2512
07/08/1941	Connee Boswell	Decca	25055	DLA2512
07/16/1941	Fred Feibel (Organ)	Columbia	36438	CO30873
07/16/1941	Irene Dunne / Victor Young	Decca	40016	DLA2553
07/16/1941	Irene Dunne / Victor Young	Decca	18201	DLA2553
10/31/1941	Gordon String Qt	Decca	29118	69891
02/26/1944	Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians	Decca	18795-A	71806
06/14/1944	Fred Waring's Singers	Decca	23728	72257
03/01/1946	Carmen Cavallaro (Piano)	Decca	18820-B	73410
02/20/1950	Jerry Gray & His Orchestra	Decca	27450	L5397
01/07/1952	Ralph Ginsburgh	Columbia	39501	ZSP6869


Year	Title	Medium	Type	Usage


1933	Roberta	stage		introduced
1935	Roberta	film	film adaptation	reused

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