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 (Homicide: Life on the Street) Eyes". In its original American broadcast on March 24, 1993, the episode was watched by 7.08 million households, according to Nielsen Media Research, earning the episode a 7.6 rating. This constituted a slight increase in viewership compared to the previous week's episode, "And the Rockets' Dead Glare", which was seen by 6.61 million viewers and received a 7.1 rating. "Homicide" ranked low in the Nielsen ratings compared to other shows the week of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", ranking 77th for the week of March 15 to 21, with the CBS news magazine series "60 Minutes" ranking number one with