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 (Mad Men) Creative Arts Emmys for Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series and Cinematography for a One Hour Series. "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" also received a nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (Alan Taylor) as well as Outstanding Costumes for a Series (John A. Dunn, costume designer and Lisa Padovani, assistant costume designer). The episode also won a Casting Society of America Artios Award for Outstanding Casting in a Television Pilot, Drama. Alan Taylor won a 2007 Directors Guild of America Award for Drama Series directing the episode. The episode also earned a Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel