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
It's in Your Eyes It's in Your Eyes "It's in Your Eyes" is a single performed by Phil Collins and released in 1996 as the second single from his album "Dance into the Light". A Beatles-esque melody, the song only reached #30 UK Singles Chart and fared worse on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100, reaching #77. However, the song did reach the top 10 on the "Billboard" Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. For promotional live performances of the song, Collins played the lead guitar instead of Daryl Stuermer. The video showed Collins in an apartment block, playing the guitar while watching people pass by