"Remember When" & "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"

Tony Williams of The Platters Singing
"Remember When" & "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

Tony Williams singing
"Remember When" (1960)

Tony Williams singing
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (1959)

Preface: For Song #8 page, had Tony Williams singing "Only You" & "The Great Pretender" (5-13-2023). Two videos came today— Platters' "Remember When" (1959) & "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (1958).
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" was written by Jerome Kern & lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical Roberta. I've selected them for Song #57 web page in my "Favorite Songs" collection.

"Remember When" (1959)

Remember when (dah-doot-doo-doo)
I first met you (dah-doot-doo-doo)
My lips were so afraid to say "I love you"
Remember when (dah-doot-doo-doo),
to my surprise (dah-doot-doo-doo)
The heaven in my heart leaped into your eyes

Remember how much I cried
It was dumb to think you were mine
Darling, down deep inside
I still feel that feeling divine

I loved you then (dah-doot-doo-doo)
and I still do (dah-doot-doo-doo)
I can't remember when I didn't love you

Remember how much I cried
It was dumb to think you were mine
Darling, down deep inside
I still feel that feeling divine

I loved you then and I still do
I can't remember when I didn't love you

The Platters in 1955.
From left to right:
Zola Taylor, Tony Williams,
David Lynch, Paul Robi,
and Herb Reed.

"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (1958)

[Verse 1]
They asked me how I knew
My true love was true
I of course replied, something here inside
Cannot be denied
(Do do do, do do do
Do do do ahh)

They said some day you'll find
All who love are blind, ohhh
When your heart's on fire, you must realize
Smoke gets in your eyes

[Verse 2]
So I chaffed them and I gaily laughed
To think they could doubt my love (Ahh)
Yet today my love has flown away
I am without my love
(Without my love)

Now laughing friends deride
Tears I cannot hide, hide
So I smile and say, when a lovely flame dies (Ahh)
Smoke gets in your eyes
(Smoke gets in your eyes)
(Smoke gets in your eyes)
Smoke gets in your eyes

© Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com
October 16, 2023