'I Only Have Eyes For You' - Dick Powell - DAMES (1934) w/ Ruby Keeler 

art garfunkel did this tune in 1975!!!!. many tunes that you listen to are "COVER TUNES". the beatles, and elvis presley did a lot of cover tunes, many of them were so old that no one picked up on them, as they were in the "PUBLIC DOMAIN", and no royalties had to be paid

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Dick Powell's version was way before Flamingos. "1930's"

@@allisonyoung4285 , flamingos version was a cover tune made in the 1950's

Powell became heavier, more muscular as he got older. He got a ranch and did manual labor there, I think.

Gee a why

For sure. If he was doing his own singing there, that’s damn impressive. Decades before digital editing and autotune, you either could sing or you couldn’t. Fred Astaire was another very underrated singer.

he was the main leading man at warner bros when it came to musicals i’m sure he was very appreciated in his time. dick powell and ruby keeler gave fred and ginger a run for their money in the 30s. later in life he focused more on dramatic roles so that’s why some people nowadays maybe don’t remember him for the singer he was. and yes it’s his own voice in this clip, he had a very distinctive voice

He was , but he apparently hated singing .

Absolutely! One of the huge singing stars of the 1930s!!!

@@fosbury68 Yes! There's a very entertaining old book "Bring On The Girls"-- the story of P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton and how musical comedies came about. Fred Astaire was on the scene then, and pals with the great composers Kern, Berlin, others....they all loved Fred's performances of their songs. He sang them, with his own charm, but exactly as they were written. This got me to realize that interpretations can be wonderful, but it's important to the composer to have his original creation out there somewhere, too!

You said it so sweetly. May God go with you.

I highly agree! Most originals are the best.

Thank you @@Juliaflo !

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I empathize with your sentiment. However, if you had been born in the 1930s, you wouldn't have experienced much of the 1930s, especially on an adult romantic level. But if you'd been born around 1910...

Life was no picnic back then. Great Depression, WW2 etc.

Static?

GoldNava My guess is guys were approximately the same then as they are now. This just happens to be a musical movie. That being said, good song.

GoldNava There are many, and girls reject us, so we stop being nice and romantic as a result. Blame girls for that.

@@itz_Max_yall I totally agree with you, buddy.

@@itz_Max_yall You sound really stupid, a girl can't stop a man from being a man rather it's a good man or a bad man, so blame yourselves for treating women like shit.

MsDommo09 You don’t understand what I said. Therefore, you projected what you wanted to believe onto me. That woman started the conversation when she said that she wished men were very romantic like in this video. I responded by saying that the reason men are no longer romantic is because, when we are, women reject us. Men have learned that being romantic doesn’t work. Women don’t respect men who are romantic. They are, instead, attracted to bad boys. So smart men stop acting romantic for this reason. You can blame women for that.

It really does, but it also shows how great the music and lyrics were in the 20s and 30s. The old, almost corny arrangement, as it now seems, was not doing justice to the song.

Yes, I'll take the Flamingos version!

There is recreation? I've never heard of it, is it good?

Pity Newsbies take the Flamingos. Mr. and Mrs. Taste take the one in Dames with the choreography,dancing all around and having that kind of creativity with 34 year's technical opportunities.

@@johnsurs22 I have to disagree; I prefer the 30s version. Some 50s arrangements try to be too "hip and fresh" and end up making the original songs sound flippant to me, whereas I find the originals sound more sincere. (That said, Dick Powell's version here is not totally sincere-sounding--I prefer the Ben Selvin version.) I do listen to the Flamingos' version, but I really miss the sweet 30s sound! To each his own. It can depend on what stylistic mood you're in.

When my dad was a kid he saw Al Jolson at a big-time Vaudeville theatre, and was thrilled. Jolson was one of the biggest pop music superstars of his time. I've heard his records, and seen his movies, but I really don't get the huge appeal. I think he was a "you had to be there live" kind of entertainer.

Boy! I'll say!!

Take the good with the bad. The people were great, but half the country was out of work or working for very little.

Art Garfunkel's "Breakaway" album is the best ever.

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The chords and singing in the flamingos version turned it from a clever little love ballad, into something truly divine

Yeah, this is just some tumpty tum piece of nothing. Amazing the transformation the Flamingos version gave it.

I thought the same thing haha. Just listened to it for the first time tonight, and not very impressed with the original. It's actually quite difficult to follow the tune at times. The flamingos version is so hauntingly beautiful, they did a fantastic job making a masterpiece out of something ordinary

Serious dumbassery on display in some comments here.

You get the Depression. Be careful what you wish for.

I knew that. People were nicer to each other, and when a woman married you, she would almost always stay with you. Money is far from everything, my friend!

I agree - money is far from everything. Nonetheless, I wouldn't assert that people were nice to one another in the Depression. How would you know? And while the divorce rate was relatively low in the Depression and through World War Two, it skyrocketed in the years immediately after the war ended. People had deferred divorces, in the Depression because it was too expensive and during the war because it was unpatriotic. The result that the period from 1945-50 had the highest divorce rate in the country's history, at least until that time. Then it fell back quite dramatically, only to begin its steady rise - which then tapered off in the 1990s.,. Your belief that a women would "almost always stay" with her husband is technically correct since most marriages didn't end in divorce, but that's still true and in the past many marriages were ended by death and desertion and so didn't count as divorces. Further,because of the hostility to divorce many really unhappy marriages lasted, no doubt causing a lot of misery to the spouses and probably their children. It surprises people, but the average length of current marriages is significantly longer than those in the past, and not only because people live longer Forgive all the data, but the facts matter and they do not go far in confirming your beliefs about the Depression.

You make some very valid points, well thought out. I will say that my ideas and feelings, which led to both comments, are anectodal. As a 65 year old man from a second-generation Italian-American family, I relied upon stories my parents, Aunts and Uncles, and Grandparents told me about the Depression and how people acted. By the 1970's to a person (12 in number) spoke nostalgically about the past and how so much was changing in what to them was in a negative direction. While I cannot know what the inside of their marriages were like, not a single one of my Aunts and Uncles (mostly born in the 1920's), nor my Grandparents, nor my parents ever divorced. Now among the 22 first cousins, there are presently 13 divorces. Sometimes anectodal evidence has statistical validity. All this said with respect and not arguing right or wrong, just unique perspectives and where they came from.

I sympathize with your trusting your parents and other relatives. Most of us would. But I try to keep certain principles in mind. I suppose they can be summed up in the creed of the Chicago News Bureau (sadly now defunct): "If your mother says she loves you, check it out." More precisely, I'm aware that no person's individual experience can possibly produce accurate generalizations about the behavior and attitudes of a large and diverse population. We are lost in ignorance. The people we know best, the people we trust most, are people a lot like ourselves - pretty much (but of course not absolutely) the same race, the same religion, the same politics, the same places lived and worked and visited, and so on. It's certainly true of me, though it embarrasses me a bit to admit it. The only way to grasp the diversity of the whole is to use the tools and findings of experts who know how to sample and how to examine data cautiously. I am especially thinking og sociologists and anthropologists and economists and historians. But even they make mistakes or encounter questions they can't answer with confidence. I do know, in any case, that older people tend to be nostalgic about the past and generally suppress its unhappiness, so I am always at least a bit leery when people my age - I am 82 - describe the past as a wonderland of safety and happiness. I think I have a good memory but I know how faulty my memories often are, sometimes shockingly so. Younger people aren't much better. I go with Mark Twain, who once said that what amazed him about his memory was how many things he remembered that never happened. I. afraid that I do the same. . .

TheRevelationmaster That's is very romantic. I must do something like that for my future wedding, although I'm 19. Got plenty of time before that happens.

*IF *I *ever* get married I want this to be my wedding song but I want the 1959 version from The Flamingos

alan turner I’m not old but I know it :)

@@Joylibelle Same here.

gossamerwings I just heard the Flamingo's version and I really love it, too! It's like a totally different song, both are great because the songwriters wrote a great song and that's it!!!

I love Ruby Keeler, she's a wonderful girl, and underrated by more modern audiences. Most people today have heard of Ginger Rogers and Judy Garland (I really love them too), but not so many today have heard of Ruby. That was different back in the 1970s though when Ruby got a standing ovation during an awards ceremony and when she danced on stage in Broadway's "No no Nanette". Back in the 1970s though, there were still more survivors from the 1930s who saw a lot of Ruby's films at the movies when they came out. There are sadly not very many people left now who are old enough to have personally remember living through the 1930s

Well, it was voted by Billboard magazine as one of the greatest songs ever written, & I'd definately go along with that. It's up there with Midnight, The Stars & You, Unchained Melody, Singing In The Rain, & The theme from "Dances With Wolves" as one of the most memorable classics of the 20th Century. It has been covered by so many artists too numerous to mention & this is a true indication & validation of this songs popularity in general.

Well, it was voted by Billboard magazine as one of the greatest songs ever written, & I'd definately go along with that. It's up there with Midnight, The Stars & You, Unchained Melody, Singing In The Rain, & The theme from "Dances With Wolves" as one of the most memorable classics of the 20th Century. It has been covered by so many artists too numerous to mention & this is a true indication & validation of this songs popularity in general.

Don't forget 'Twilight Time' by The Three Suns.

I hope for your sake that she is a nice person who deserves your affection

Yeah. It was also used in "American Graffiti".

Harry Warren. Grazi Harry!

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Keeler was kind of banal. She projected a kind of childish innocence. That’s what an ordinary young woman of her age would say if her boy friend did burst out in song, although she would probably be amazed if he did it that well. Much more excitement.

JimNova72 why'd he change it? lol

Actually his father changed the family name when Harry was just a child.

gossamerwings Because at that time Italians had a bad reputation so his father turned their name sound more english

Harry Warren , a great composer !

Hal Emmerich watch your language

dennis black dennis, he said a bad language word

Hal Emmerich ok Hal old friend

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You have the most SUPREME taste if you like Harry Warren's songs.

Don't forget Dublin is his song too...