1930s London: Harry Roy His Orch. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Odeon 1933

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Slow FoxTrot from Roberta (O. Harbach J. Kern) Harry Roy mit seinem Mayfair Hotel TanzOrchester englishem Refraingesang, Odeon 1933 (Recorded in London; German release) NOTE: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes is a Jerome Kerns song presented for the first time on Broadway in 1933, in a musical play Roberta which became a great success in the New Amsterdam Theatre (it run for 294 performances). In 1935, the film Roberta with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Irene Dunne was released, becoming an international box office smash. The song was sung in the movie by Irene Dunne with a reprise danced by Fred Ginger. Compared with the Broadway show, two songs were added in the movie: I Wont Dance and Lovely To Look At becoming alltogeter the 1930s song evergreens. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes was often performed in postwar years, including Peggy Lee Benny Goodman in 1941, Nat King Cole in 1946, Dinah Washingtin in 1956 or the fabulous performance by The Platters in 1958. In UK t