Re: "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"
Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:07:00 -0700 (PDT)
--- Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie> wrote:
>
> My heart actually does give a little extra thump
> of pleasure whenever Camille agrees with me.
>
> But this time it may also be due to a complete
> loss of breath after I'd just read:
> '...I don't know how `Smoke Gets In Your
> Eyes'
Scottie -
I hadn't thought about that tune in years. I first heard it in 1959 by
the pop group The Platters (RCA Victor) - even as a nine year old who
didn't particularly like it (too slow and mushy - I would have rather
heard the Big Bopper, Chubby Checker, the Coasters, the Impalas etc.)
and didn't even want to listen to it all the way through; I just sort
of had this gut feeling that here was something that adults were doing
(the song and its performance) that maybe was good for me. I remember
there was something about the performance and the emotion, that though
a nine year old can't put it into words, was beyond simple schmaltz.
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