Smoke Gets in Your Eyes No. 3 on the Rhythm and Blues chart. The song spent 20 weeks on the UK charts, peaking at Number 1 for one week on 20 March of that same year. Buck Ram, the producer, said that Harbach praised them "for reviving his song with taste." But the widow of composer Jerome Kern disliked the recording so much she considered legal action to prevent its distribution. Margaret Whiting released the song on her 1960 album "Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook". On February 2, 1964, Judy Garland performed the song comically on "television show". She sat at a small
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes saxophonist Zoot Sims. This was one of Belafonte's first recordings. Sims' performance was parodied on December 10, 1977 on "The Muppet Show" by the character he inspired. In 1950 Charlie Parker and Jo Stafford each released versions of the song on their respective albums, "Bird at St. Nick's" and "Autumn in New York". Dinah Washington released the song in 1956, on her album "Dinah!". Jeri Southern named her 1957 album "When Your Heart's On Fire" after a lyric from the song; the album features her version of the song. The same year as Nat King Cole's televised performance of the