Flamingos – I Only Have Eyes For You

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas/Holiday. Now, we are back to our regularly scheduled programming. 

I don’t feature enough ballads and this is one of the best The song is the ultimate date song.  I’ve heard this in countless movies and I still listen all the way through. I would have loved hearing this coming out of an AM speaker in the 1950s and 60s. I sometimes use the word beautiful but only when I mean it and with this song I do. 

This is the only top-20 hit they had in America. My dad had their greatest hits so I know more than just this one. I do get in moods where I like good doo-wop. It peaked at #11 on the Billboard 100 and #3 on the Billboard R&B Chart in 1959. 

They formed in 1953 and went through a series of names like The Swallows, El Flamingos, The Five Flamingos to simply The Flamingos. They were successful in the 1950s and on the pop and R&B charts. 

As music changed in the 1960s, the Flamingos struggled to maintain their commercial success, though they continued to record and perform. Members of the group went through several changes, with different lineups carrying on the Flamingos’ name over the decades.

The Flamingos were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2000, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Doo-Wop Hall of Fame in 2004

I Only Have Eyes For You

My love must be a kind of blind loveI can’t see anyone but you(Sha bop sha bop)(Sha bop sha bop)(Sha bop sha bop)(Sha bop sha bop)(Sha bop sha bop)

Are the stars out tonight (sha bop sha bop)I don’t know if it’s cloudy or bright (sha bop sha bop)I only have eyes for you dear(Sha bop sha bop)

The moon may be high(Sha bop sha bop)But I can’t see (sha bop sha bop) a thing in the skyI only have eyes for you

I don’t know if we’re in a gardenOr on a crowded avenue(Sha bop sha bop)

You are here(Sha bop sha bop)And so am I(Sha bop sha bop)

Maybe millions of people (sha bop sha bop) go byBut they all disappear from viewAnd I only have eyes for you

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Author: Badfinger (Max)

Power Pop fan, Baseball, Beatles, Alternative music, old movies, and tv show fan. Also anything to do with pop culture in the 60s and 70s... I'm also a songwriter, bass and guitar player. Not the slightest bit interested in politics at all.

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      3. I know that he was a pop star also but I’ve always been a Dion Demuci fan & his stuff with the Belmonts was classic. I heard one of Elvis’ early Christmas songs I think ‘Blue Christmas’ with the Jordanaires I know that they weren’t ‘doo wop’ but they were cool. That harmony.

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      4. Oh yea I like the Belmonts stuff as well. The harmony is what does it…and then later on the Beach Boys took it up to a different level.

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      1. MY is probably right, it was Garfunkel who did this in the ’70s, not Valli. Either way it was a good cover that introduced a lot of people our age to the song

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      2. I get what you are saying….there is a song by Kathy Young and The Innocents called “A Thousand Stars” that I think the same way about.

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  14. A great remake- who knew they did that back in the day? Naw, I jest, there was Hell to pay when the Marcels redid ‘Blue Moon.’ Some of the pre-WW2 crowd damn near had conniptions on hearing that one! ‘How dare they di-di-di-di-di- do that to our beautiful bom bom ba ba bom ‘Blue Moon!’

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      1. Frank Sinatra, Billie Holliday… Marcels… there’s a world of difference between them. Nothing wrong with different takes on a standard! The Marcels backup singers earned their pay cheques on their version though.

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  17. Doo wop stylings took a lot of songs they learned as kids from their parents and turn them into something new. This is one, Blue Moon is the classic. I can’t hear any version of “Blue Moon” without the doo wop. Not that I’m complaining.

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