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
Wipe Your Eyes Live's Keaton Fletcher in a review of "Overexposed", wrote that the beginning of the song makes you ask yourself "do you really want to listen to this song?" However, he concluded that after its first thirty seconds it sounds like typical Maroon 5 song on which you feel smooth sexuality. A reviewer of Kiss 95.1 radio wrote that "Wipe Your Eyes" together with "Love Somebody" and "Beautiful Goodbye" "are 'fan favorites' songs". Credits adapted from the liner notes of "Overexposed", A&M/Octone Records. Upon the release of "Overexposed", due to strength of digital downloads, "Wipe Your Eyes" debuted at number 80