Artist
The Flamingos
Lyrics
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 maybe high
but I can't see a thing in the sky,
'Cause I Only Have Eyes For You.
I don't know if we're in a garden,
or on a crowded avenue.
You are here
So am I
Maybe millions of people go by,
but they all disappear from view.
And I Only Have Eyes For You.
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 maybe high
but I can't see a thing in the sky,
'Cause I Only Have Eyes For You.
I don't know if we're in a garden,
or on a crowded avenue.
You are here
So am I
Maybe millions of people go by,
but they all disappear from view.
And I Only Have Eyes For You.
RS500_rank
157
Length
3:22
BPM
88.6
Released Year
1959
Genre Era
Genre
Key
C m
Produced By
George Goldner
Released Info
April '59 on End
Chart Weeks
13 weeks
Chart Top
No. 11
Musicbrainz ID
19ae4e58-20b6-3722-e5dd-aea4f96f9a95
Song Note Source
Rolling Stone 500
Song of Day Date
Written By
Harry Warren
Album
The Best of the Flamingos (Rhino)
Song Status
Dubbed "The Sultans of Smooth," this Chicago quintet honed its harmonies singing in a black Jewish church choir. One of the greatest vocal groups of the doo-wop era, it's best known for "I Only Have Eyes for You," originally a hit for crooner Ben Selvin in 1934. The Flamingos take the song all the way to Venus with elegant vocalizations and the otherworldly doo-bop-sh-bop.