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• This vocal was written by Henry Warren and Al Dubin for the Busby Berkeley movie musical Dames in 1934, where information technology was introduced by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. Ben Selvin recorded information technology that same year and landed at #ii 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 anthology after this song in 1976. The Count Basie Orchestra did it again in 1990 with George Benson; Fine art Garfunkel fabricated a very romantic version on his 1975 Breakaway album, which topped the UK chart, reached #18 on the United states Hot 100, and was a #one Adult Gimmicky hit. The Lettermen did a version in 1966, and Jerry Butler covered it in 1972. >>

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• The Flamingos honed their vocals at the Church building of God and Saints of Christ in Philadelphia, where at that place were no musical instruments, just voices. The songwriter/producer Phil Hurtt, who also attended this church building, told usa: "If you listen to the harmonies of The Flamingos, you can hear 1 of the things that separated them from a lot of the doo-wop groups was their sound. Flamingos' sound was a smoother, authentic harmony. Their blend was awesome."

• The Flamingos' version was arranged and co-produced past Terry "Buzzy" Johnson, a Baltimore native who joined the group equally a outset tenor in 1956. Fellow Flamingo Nate Nelson encouraged him to go crazy with the song, but he couldn't effigy out what to practise with information technology. All he knew was the other versions were way too vanilla for his gustatory modality. 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 information technology just didn't fit. Finally, information technology was virtually 12 or one in the morning, and I was and so tired that I vicious asleep, and in my dream I heard 'I Just Have Eyes For You' merely the mode 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 before long every bit I woke upwards, I grabbed the guitar off my breast and information technology was like God put my fingers just where they were supposed to be. I played those chords and I heard the harmonies, 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 lot'!'

  They were like, 'Are you crazy? It's about 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'southward 'doo-bop sh-bop, goo-bop sh-bop, boo-bop sh-bop, loo-bop sh-bop, shoo-bop sh-bop"?' Y'all meet, although in my dream information technology was 'doo-bop sh-bop', I had everybody doing a unlike thing, changing things around to make certain no one could actually pick out what we were saying."

• George Goldner, who produced the track with Johnson, didn't call back it was commercial enough to be a single, so the grouping kept information technology as an album track and recorded a embrace of Russ Columbo'southward "Goodnight Sweetheart" for the first single. That is, until DJs got current of air of "I Merely Have Eyes For You" and inverse their mind.

• Jake Carey (bass) was the shortest fellow member of the group, which made information technology difficult when he couldn't achieve the mic at the same level equally the other guys during the recording session, where the music and vocals were beingness 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!' merely nosotros told him, 'We're non going to curve our necks down to adjust you. The mic has got to be at a certain level for all of us.' And then, we put Jake on three or four phone books and that'due south how we recorded, with the background singers on one mic and the lead guy on another."

• Art Garfunkel performed his rendition on the 2nd episode of Saturday Nighttime Live, which aired on October eighteen, 1975 and was hosted by Paul Simon.

• The Flamingos' version was featured in several movies, including the 1983 astronaut drama The Correct Stuff, starring Ed Harris, and the elevate racing drama Heart Like a Wheel, likewise in 1983.

  Information technology as well 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 grouping the Fugees sampled this on "Zealots" from their 1996 anthology, The Score.

• The version by The Flamingos was featured in the trailer for Season 2 of Netflix's The Crown in 2017.

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