Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Smoke Gets in Your Eyes "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical "Roberta". The song was sung in the Broadway show by Tamara Drasin. Its first recorded performance was by Gertrude Niesen, who recorded the song with orchestral direction from Ray Sinatra, Frank Sinatra's second cousin, on October 13, 1933. Niesen's recording of the song was released by Victor, with the B-side, "Jealousy", featuring Isham Jones and his Orchestra. Paul Whiteman had the first hit recording of the song on the record charts in
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