I Only Have Eyes For You

We were driving home on Saturday night from Montclair, NJ, from a show that our friend Danny had curated, and turned on the radio. WNYC's New Sounds with John Schaefer was on, and the theme was The Flamingo's 1959 hit I Only Have Eyes For You, actually written in 1934 by Al Dublin and Harry Warren for the Busby Berkeley movie Dames. I have always loved the Flamingo's dissonant, narcotic version, so it was a pleasure to hear alternate takes of this creepy song by Phil Kline, Lester Bowie and Coleman Hawkins among others. I recommend the podcast.

Cross-posted to A Jeremiad.