The Flamingos - "I Only Have Eyes For You"

[benmcd2000]

:) Anyone else like this song? This is so laid back, so groovy...one of my all time favorite songs. Not sure but I think the song has been recorded many different times, by different artist. I also heard it was a big hit with the Mob at one point in time. :o

[mst3k]

Art Garfunkel had a modest hit with his remake.

I like the Flamingos version best.

[stevie nice]

Certainly one of the great timeless ballads of the 50s. I didn't really like Art's version, tho it seemed to spend a ton of weeks in the 20s on AT40 during its release.

[reception]

Here's a full clip. Recently Eamon sampled it in "I Love Them O's."

[Peach]

Groovy! I like.

[cartman2002]

I Only Have Eyes For You reached #11 in Billboard way way back in 1959

[joker]

Classic oldie.

[rr1981]

Love it. I think it's a really beautiful song. Timeless.

[Adam (UTR)]

The song has been covered and sampled many times, but this version is still one of my favorites. It went to #11 on the Hot 100 in 1959.

[Arnold]

I remember this from the summer of 1959.  I like this one.  Good music from a time when most music was good, unlike today's music.
This is a rock and roll version of a song that has existed well before this version was made.

[Deleted]

Heavenly. Those vocals. 

Also peaked at #3 R&B. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003.

[back2blk]

Love this. Those lead and backup vocals take me there!

[jdanton2]

being used in an Alexa ad and is #65 on itunes.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Nov 21, 2021 19:41:03 GMT -5 jdanton2 said:

being used in an Alexa ad and is #65 on itunes.

That was a very cute commercial. They certainly don't make songs like that anymore. Lol.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

#98 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

“I Only Have Eyes for You” may date all the way back to the 1934 musical comedy Dames, but when you see that title in 2023, it’s the Flamingos’ shoobopshoobops that still echo in your head. Few doo-wop-era songs have proven so perpetually resonant, with the combination of the group’s narcotically slow and blissed-out harmonies and George Goldner’s infinity-reverbed production giving it not just an out-of-time, but an out-of-body feeling. When you’re listening, it simply feels like the only pop song in existence — appropriate for a song with lyrics as romantically solipsistic as, “You are here, and so am I/ Maybe millions of people go by/ But they all disappear from view…” – ANDREW UNTERBERGER