'I Only Have Eyes For You' - Dick Powell - DAMES (1934) w/ Ruby Keeler
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2011
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I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU is by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin, written in 1934 for the film 'DAMES' where it was introduced by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler.
DAMES is a 1934 Warner Bros. musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright with dance numbers created by Busby Berkeley. The film stars Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, ZaSu Pitts, and Hugh Herbert.
Production numbers and songs include "When You Were a Smile on Your Mother's Lips (and a Twinkle in Your Daddy's Eye)", "The Girl at the Ironing Board", "I Only Have Eyes for You", "Dames" and "Try to See It My Way". 
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I had no idea this song came before the Flamingos! It’s super cool hearing both versions
art garfunkel did this tune in 1975!!!!. many tunes that you listen to are "COVER TUNES". the beatles, and elvis presley did a lot of cover tunes, many of them were so old that no one picked up on them, as they were in the "PUBLIC DOMAIN", and no royalties had to be paid
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Dick Powell's version was way before Flamingos. "1930's"
@@allisonyoung4285 , flamingos version was a cover tune made in the 1950's
Dick Powell was a fine singer and a actor.
Powell was a very underated singer...He's right there with Crosby and Sinatra in my book...🤔
For sure. If he was doing his own singing there, that’s damn impressive. Decades before digital editing and autotune, you either could sing or you couldn’t. Fred Astaire was another very underrated singer.
he was the main leading man at warner bros when it came to musicals i’m sure he was very appreciated in his time. dick powell and ruby keeler gave fred and ginger a run for their money in the 30s. later in life he focused more on dramatic roles so that’s why some people nowadays maybe don’t remember him for the singer he was. and yes it’s his own voice in this clip, he had a very distinctive voice
He was , but he apparently hated singing .
Dick Powell always came across as the most likable fella'.
The original! It's certainly swell.
The original , and still wonderful rendition by Dick Powell of this great Warren and Dubin standard . Surely one of the best songs ever written !
You said it so sweetly. May God go with you.
I highly agree! Most originals are the best.
Thank you @@Juliaflo !
Life was such a dream way back then. Why couldn't I have been born in the 30's and 40's? And I get stuck with this!?! I'm dead ☠️☠️☠️
I empathize with your sentiment. However, if you had been born in the 1930s, you wouldn't have experienced much of the 1930s, especially on an adult romantic level. But if you'd been born around 1910...
Life was no picnic back then. Great Depression, WW2 etc.
"Gee jimmy that's swell" -Dame
still best version of this song after almost 100 years -so why
I love Dick Powell!
I wish guys were like that today!
GoldNava My guess is guys were approximately the same then as they are now. This just happens to be a musical movie.
That being said, good song.
GoldNava There are many, and girls reject us, so we stop being nice and romantic as a result. Blame girls for that.
@@itz_toca_Max I totally agree with you, buddy.
@@itz_toca_Max You sound really stupid, a girl can't stop a man from being a man rather it's a good man or a bad man, so blame yourselves for treating women like shit.
MsDommo09 You don’t understand what I said. Therefore, you projected what you wanted to believe onto me. That woman started the conversation when she said that she wished men were very romantic like in this video. I responded by saying that the reason men are no longer romantic is because, when we are, women reject us. Men have learned that being romantic doesn’t work. Women don’t respect men who are romantic. They are, instead, attracted to bad boys. So smart men stop acting romantic for this reason. You can blame women for that.
My husband is the Great nephew of Harry Warren.... MAN! Harry was a GREAT GUY!!
Dick powell was a great actor as well as singer... Love his portrayal of a private detective Richard diamond
Powell became heavier, more muscular as he got older. He got a ranch and did manual labor there, I think.
I had never heard this version, which shows the song is much older than I thought. But a good song is good anytime, any place.
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Absolutely brilliant! Dick Powell's voice puts me in heaven.
I love this clip so much. Dick Powell was so incredibly multi-talented!
60 years ago some one special sang this to me .wish he was here today ❤️🧡🤣😂
Dick Powell here has added yet another masterpiece to 20th century music performance, with for example his beautiful intelligent speech and diction, a delight to hear.
Wow! I thought the flamingos wrote this song. Both versions are equally as beautiful. I love the static 30s sound and passion, and I love the 50s heart and soul. Sadly we just don't have these artists anymore
Static?
Gee Jimmy, that was swell!
This song was written for this movie. I've loved the different version's over the years. The words are just so beautiful. This song is timeless. I LOVE IT!!!! Thank you
I'll take the Flamingos all day everyday.....this is sweet tho. Hearing the original really shows the genius-flash of the Flamingos re-arrangement.
It really does, but it also shows how great the music and lyrics were in the 20s and 30s. The old, almost corny arrangement, as it now seems, was not doing justice to the song.
Yes, I'll take the Flamingos version!
There is recreation? I've never heard of it, is it good?
Pity Newsbies take the Flamingos. Mr. and Mrs. Taste take the one in Dames with the choreography,dancing all around and having that kind of creativity with 34 year's technical opportunities.
@@johnsurs22 I have to disagree; I prefer the 30s version. Some 50s arrangements try to be too "hip and fresh" and end up making the original songs sound flippant to me, whereas I find the originals sound more sincere. (That said, Dick Powell's version here is not totally sincere-sounding--I prefer the Ben Selvin version.) I do listen to the Flamingos' version, but I really miss the sweet 30s sound! To each his own. It can depend on what stylistic mood you're in.
OH...beautifully done. Don't you just love to hear these lovey older songs. So melodic, so wonderful to listen to...filled with honesty, meaning , purpose. Thanks for this great contribution
Did anyone comment on how the song on the ferry was affecting the other older couples? "Only have eyes for you" was nostalgia-inducing even before the song because old enough to inspire nostalgia. (Flamingos version, anyone??) An inspired, still relatable stroke of screen writing.
one of my very favorite old songs - love it - love busby berkley - love the movies from the 30ss and 40s
Thing is, it was written nearly 100 years ago. It has stood the test of time. Will today's songs?
Fascinante versión de este clásico...Dick Powell buena interpretación....el Hollywood de la comedia musical es 1934.... maravillosa
i just found the scene where this is sung in the movie and prefer this so much more!!
Wow! What a great love song from this movie and from 1934!
I am in love!! Wish I had grown up back then....
Take the good with the bad. The people were great, but half the country was out of work or working for very little.
This is really swell! A beautiful song from a great movie.
Boy! I'll say!!
Powell can sing!!!
My mom used to mention his name as a hot number and I never really knew who she was talking about. About 2 yrs ago, I 'discovered' him on early am classic movies-he was dreamy-the voice-the personalty. I love his voice much more so than say, Bing Crosby or Al Jolson. I'm sure you would probably win that bet on your grandma!
When my dad was a kid he saw Al Jolson at a big-time Vaudeville theatre, and was thrilled. Jolson was one of the biggest pop music superstars of his time. I've heard his records, and seen his movies, but I really don't get the huge appeal. I think he was a "you had to be there live" kind of entertainer.
This is the original: I Only Have Eyes For You - Dick Powell & Ruby Keeler 1934. Sung innocently with romance. : )
Note: ""All other versions of this song, are considered copycats!""
I love this song
wow they’re both great 😌 a beautifully written piece of work…🕊
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amazing. I've been a long time fan of the flamingos version. I appreciate their arrangement even more now that I see what they had to work with.
The chords and singing in the flamingos version turned it from a clever little love ballad, into something truly divine
Yeah, this is just some tumpty tum piece of nothing. Amazing the transformation the Flamingos version gave it.
I thought the same thing haha. Just listened to it for the first time tonight, and not very impressed with the original. It's actually quite difficult to follow the tune at times. The flamingos version is so hauntingly beautiful, they did a fantastic job making a masterpiece out of something ordinary
Serious dumbassery on display in some comments here.
Superb film.
This is truly classic ever👍👍👍👍
Ruby Keller's face really stands up to the test of time. Pretty gal.
I think having natural brows during those years when the prevailing fashion was for ultra plucked brows really helps.
I love this version -( Dick clearly shows he possesses that vital charisma factor here) AND The Flamingos version too. They are both great, like people with 2 different but equally fantastic. personalities. The perfectly timed and controlled harmonies that flow in The Flamingos' version is a prominent strength; all those different flowings, as beautiful as looking from a drone up above down at all the cars on a lovely complex road system like Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham,.
The original!, and still great. Those unfamiliar with songs of that era may not appreciate it, but it really is a great song, jus as the later Flamingos and Garfunkel versions.
Well, it was voted by Billboard magazine as one of the greatest songs ever written, & I'd definately go along with that. It's up there with Midnight, The Stars & You, Unchained Melody, Singing In The Rain, & The theme from "Dances With Wolves" as one of the most memorable classics of the 20th Century. It has been covered by so many artists too numerous to mention & this is a true indication & validation of this songs popularity in general.
Well, it was voted by Billboard magazine as one of the greatest songs ever written, & I'd definately go along with that. It's up there with Midnight, The Stars & You, Unchained Melody, Singing In The Rain, & The theme from "Dances With Wolves" as one of the most memorable classics of the 20th Century. It has been covered by so many artists too numerous to mention & this is a true indication & validation of this songs popularity in general.
I have always loved this beautiful love song-Dick does it justice-Art Garfunkel sings it out of the park too on one of his solo albums as well. Great writing!
Art Garfunkel's "Breakaway" album is the best ever.
Those of us who are old enough to have a huge expanse of music experience would know that this is the best rendering of this song. You gotta be old to know it.
alan turner I’m not old but I know it :)
@@Joylibelle Same here.
I knew Dick Powell could sing from his radio show Richard Diamond. Every once in awhile on the show he would belt out in song. I liked his Noir films from the 40's. Great talent.
The woman he is holding is the musical star Ruby Keeler. She had a well-earned reputation in Hollywood as a triple threat: “can't sing; can't dance; can't act”. Cut 🎥! That's a wrap 🎬!!
This is real music!
Take me back to that time, please!
You get the Depression. Be careful what you wish for.
I knew that. People were nicer to each other, and when a woman married you, she would almost always stay with you. Money is far from everything, my friend!
I agree - money is far from everything. Nonetheless, I wouldn't assert that people were nice to one another in the Depression. How would you know? And while the divorce rate was relatively low in the Depression and through World War Two, it skyrocketed in the years immediately after the war ended. People had deferred divorces, in the Depression because it was too expensive and during the war because it was
unpatriotic. The result that the period from 1945-50 had the highest divorce rate in the country's history, at least until that time. Then it fell back quite dramatically, only to begin its steady rise - which then tapered off in the 1990s.,. Your belief that a women would "almost always stay" with her husband is technically correct since most marriages didn't end in divorce, but that's still true and in the past many marriages were ended by death and desertion and so didn't count as divorces. Further,because of the hostility to divorce many really unhappy marriages lasted, no doubt causing a lot of misery to the spouses and probably their children. It surprises people, but the average length of current marriages is significantly longer than those in the past, and not only because people live longer Forgive all the data, but the facts matter and they do not go far in confirming your beliefs about the Depression.
You make some very valid points, well thought out. I will say that my ideas and feelings, which led to both comments, are anectodal. As a 65 year old man from a second-generation Italian-American family, I relied upon stories my parents, Aunts and Uncles, and Grandparents told me about the Depression and how people acted. By the 1970's to a person (12 in number) spoke nostalgically about the past and how so much was changing in what to them was in a negative direction. While I cannot know what the inside of their marriages were like, not a single one of my Aunts and Uncles (mostly born in the 1920's), nor my Grandparents, nor my parents ever divorced. Now among the 22 first cousins, there are presently 13 divorces. Sometimes anectodal evidence has statistical validity. All this said with respect and not arguing right or wrong, just unique perspectives and where they came from.
I sympathize with your trusting your parents and other relatives. Most of us would. But I try to keep certain principles in mind. I suppose they can be summed up in the creed of the Chicago News Bureau (sadly now defunct): "If your mother says she loves you, check it out." More precisely, I'm aware that no person's individual experience can possibly produce accurate generalizations about the behavior and attitudes of a large and diverse population. We are lost in ignorance. The people we know best, the people we trust most, are people a lot like ourselves - pretty much (but of course not absolutely) the same race, the same religion, the same politics, the same places lived and worked and visited, and so on. It's certainly true of me, though it embarrasses me a bit to admit it. The only way to grasp the diversity of the whole is to use the tools and findings of experts who know how to sample and how to examine data cautiously. I am especially thinking og sociologists and anthropologists and economists and historians. But even they make mistakes or encounter questions they can't answer with confidence. I do know, in any case, that older people tend to be nostalgic about the past and generally suppress its unhappiness, so I am always at least a bit leery when people my age - I am 82 - describe the past as a wonderland of safety and happiness. I think I have a good memory but I know how faulty my memories often are, sometimes shockingly so. Younger people aren't much better. I go with Mark Twain, who once said that what amazed him about his memory was how many things he remembered that never happened. I. afraid that I do the same. . .
wish someone would sing this to me!!
I saw the movie on TCM the other day and I really love this song, Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler are the best! Thank you for posting this clip from the movie!
gossamerwings I just heard the Flamingo's version and I really love it, too! It's like a totally different song, both are great because the songwriters wrote a great song and that's it!!!
I love Ruby Keeler, she's a wonderful girl, and underrated by more modern audiences. Most people today have heard of Ginger Rogers and Judy Garland (I really love them too), but not so many today have heard of Ruby. That was different back in the 1970s though when Ruby got a standing ovation during an awards ceremony and when she danced on stage in Broadway's "No no Nanette". Back in the 1970s though, there were still more survivors from the 1930s who saw a lot of Ruby's films at the movies when they came out. There are sadly not very many people left now who are old enough to have personally remember living through the 1930s
some one to sing that to them ,, it would be ..swell...time... come again ..when we cared much deeper, this song by Art Garfunkel is ..SWELL..too..it will take you away ..granted....melt
Perhaps one of the oldest appearances of the Staten Island Ferry in a feature film?
I was 9 when I first heard the Flamingos version of the song and fell in love w/the 'shbop shbop' harmony. Still love their passionate version of this song, but bottom line, the words of this song were truly wonderful🎶
MY wedding song 1976.
TheRevelationmaster That's is very romantic. I must do something like that for my future wedding, although I'm 19. Got plenty of time before that happens.
*IF *I *ever* get married I want this to be my wedding song but I want the 1959 version from The Flamingos
I thank you for this film clip. To me a favorite song from that era.❤
I heard this in 'A.I. Artificial Intelligence' and decided to finally look for it. 😄🤭
Its despicable and disgusting that the Ultimate American Song Writer Harry Warren did not get the recognition deserved and still deserves..he blows away all the other American British and jewish american writers of yesterday and today including berlin sherman lennon and mccartney
Dick Powell ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Many thanks for posting.Brilliant.
che maravilla, che talentos habia en otras epocas,
WOW! This original is totally different from Flamingo, never knew this version exists!
I enjoy the old Richard Diamond detective radio shows Starring Dick Powell.
I like this version for reminiscing about the time in my life I was in puppy love. I like The Flamingos version for reminiscing about my real love❤️
I became aquanited with this classic song via film too; The Right Stuff
Yeah. It was also used in "American Graffiti".
LINDO ! BELO RESGATE !
Whatever the version, I didn't quite appreciate this until recently. The world could end and all I would need is her....
I hope for your sake that she is a nice person who deserves your affection
I so love this xx
Very good, film. bye, Fred Italy, Milano, ciao.
The best!
Super excellent
That's fascinating, Babydux. Harry Warren is one of my favorite composers, and I play his songs at home so very often.
Both the ferry and subway scenes are from the film as released. The song was introduced in this scene and reprised later in the subway sequence.
This is the song that will be my wedding song 💜
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Funny how so many 50s songs were actually remakes of older songs. For example, you'd never think that "Who's Sorry Now?" by Connie Francis was *not* the original, but "Who's Sorry Now?" is actually an old *jazz* song from the 20s.
Don't forget 'Twilight Time' by The Three Suns.
How blessed are you to be connected to the incomparable Salvatore Antonio Guaragna. He was the movie's composer, for certain.
Harry Warren. Grazi Harry!
check out the suits...the hats...what style people had then.
goosebumps
Dicky and Wuby!
Thanks for the gen.
Yes, I imagine the subway ride, big number and all, was enough without then rehashing the same song on another mode of transport... x)
The subway number is what I was after originally, but doesn't seem to be available any more on RUclips.
So do I at 59 years old
Much of early Rock n Roll is actually show tunes or 40's pop songs - Blueberry Hill is another one.
Dick Powell WGNJMNFAS 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Arkansas.
The first time I heard this song was by Ruby Keeler's husband at the time, the one and only Al Jolson who made it his own... 🙂
Taxi, turn around and drop me off at 1934.
Great version of this song, and nice romantic scene from a bygone era... A bit let down by Ruby Keeler's banal and unenthused "gee Jimmy, that's swell" at the end. Pretty anticlimactic, after Dick Powell's been pouring his heart out for umpteen bars... ;)
Keeler was kind of banal. She projected a kind of childish innocence. That’s what an ordinary young woman of her age would say if her boy friend did burst out in song, although she would probably be amazed if he did it that well. Much more excitement.
Harry Warren wrote some wonderful popular music. My favorite American composer.
You have the most SUPREME taste if you like Harry Warren's songs.
Don't forget Dublin is his song too...
A song her own husband sang☺️
I just spent 50 years thinking this was The Flamingos :-p
I like this version ...........and the Flamingos took it to another level.
That one rare time, that the remake is better than the originals. Flamingos all day 🤷🏿♂️
Correction. Just found the train number under "Busby Berkeley: I only have eyes for you". :)
Salvatore Antonio Guaragna is the birth name of Harry Warren, born in 1893.
JimNova72 why'd he change it? lol
Actually his father changed the family name when Harry was just a child.
gossamerwings Because at that time Italians had a bad reputation so his father turned their name sound more english
Harry Warren , a great composer !
Actually, in the movie, they meet, walk to the subway, and during the subway ride, it dissolves into the big production number, and then back to the subway. This must have been an outtake that didn't make it into the final picture.
Yea...I'll take the flamingo version instead..but it's nice to know where it came from.
Art Garfunkel's version is my personal favourite. Such a great song, even I sing it.
this version is a sincere love song, the flamingo one is artificial and sugary.
God, I know it's the original version, but I'm so used to the Flamingos version that this sounds like that Dick Powell's trying to speed-read the fucking song.
Hal Emmerich watch your language
dennis black dennis, he said a bad language word
Hal Emmerich ok Hal old friend
+Hal Emmerich LOL 😀😁😂😃😄😅😎
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She didn't seem that excited...
He's cute!
Both Dames and A.I. Artificial Intelligence feature this song and the Statue of Liberty.