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) facades that have always hidden the truth." Troy Patterson of "Slate" drew comparisons to the HBO comedy-drama "Sex and the City", and affirmed that it introduced a lewd and cynical perspective of the so-called "golden age" of advertisement. Nancy Franklin of "The New Yorker" concluded that "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" was "smart and tremendously attractive", while "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" journalist Melanie McFarland felt that it was a rarity compared to other television installments. Writing for the "Boston Globe", Matthew Gilbert remarked that the setting and design were immediately distinguishable. Gilbert wrote, "This is a gorgeously fashioned period piece, from its