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) doubled as director of photography. The title of the episode refers both to Bayliss and Howard seeking to quit smoking, and to the hazardous asbestos being removed from the squad room. The episode includes a cameo appearance by film director John Waters, who plays a bartender speaking with Bolander in the final scene. Waters, a Baltimore native who develops and sets most of his films in the city, would make another guest appearance in the episode, "Law & Disorder" in a different cameo role. "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" was originally supposed to be the "Homicide: Life on the Street"