{"id":14428,"date":"2012-04-28T19:25:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T23:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=14428"},"modified":"2012-04-28T19:27:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T23:27:50","slug":"romance-time-remember-when-songs-actually-said-something-other-than-ho-kill-and-the-n-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2012\/04\/romance-time-remember-when-songs-actually-said-something-other-than-ho-kill-and-the-n-word.html","title":{"rendered":"Romance time: Remember when songs actually said something other than “ho,” kill, and the “N” word?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watchwoman:<\/strong><\/span>For those of you old enough to actually remember music that was sung by people with voices who sang poems of love or love lost, songs like “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” and “Harbor Lights.”\u00a0 “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” was featured on a TV program, “Criminal Minds,” recently.\u00a0 They played the old, romantic ballad sung by a negro group called THE PLATTERS (negro used to be the polite way of referring to blacks in the 1950’s).<\/p>\n

“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” is a show tune<\/a> written by American composer Jerome Kern<\/a> and lyricist Otto Harbach<\/a> for their 1933 musical<\/a> Roberta<\/a><\/em>. It was originally recorded by Gertrude Niesen<\/a>, on October 13, 1933, on the Victor label 24454. Possibly the most famous version was recorded in 1958 by the doo wop<\/a> group The Platters<\/a>, which became a number one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100<\/a> \u2014 it reached number three on the R&B charts in 1959[1]<\/a><\/sup> \u2014\u00a0(Wikipedia*)<\/p>\n

“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” came from an era long before “N” music consisted of nothing more than hate-filled, non-lyrical-noisy-rap-crap praising guns to murder and black females are nothing but ho’s to be exploited, used and abused, by black males while the “N” word is repeated over and over ad nauseum, but it’s okay because the drug-filled rappers pronounce it, “nig’ra”. (But if you’re white, don’t say anything but the “N” word and hang your head slightly when saying it.)<\/p>\n

Alas, here are the stirring and haunting words of “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.” I’ve also included the YouTube video for your pleasure, although “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” is usually thought of as a romantic love song, it does not have a happy last verse.\u00a0 Nevertheless, we all dreamed of nothing but love as we slow-danced to the mellow rhythm wrapped in our boyfriends arms in the school gyms of America decorated with crepe paper streamers and Kleenex carnations.\u00a0 I guess hearing about the death of Dick Clark, one can get a little sentimental.\u00a0 So come back in time with me to when lyrics were actually lyrical.\u00a0 Enjoy, the Platters and “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.”\u00a0 Turn down the lights, go ask your husband or wife to join you on the kitchen tile floor and slow dance with me, okay.\u00a0 \u25ac\u00a0 Donna Calvin<\/strong><\/p>\n

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SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES<\/h1>\n

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They asked me how I knew
\nMy true love was true
\nOh, I of course replied
\nSomething here inside cannot be denied<\/p>\n

They said someday you’ll find
\nAll who love are blind
\nOh, when your heart’s on fire
\nYou must realize
\nSmoke gets in your eyes<\/p>\n

So I chaffed them and I gaily laughed
\nTo think they could doubt my love
\nYet today my love has flown away
\nI am without my love<\/p>\n

Now laughing friends deride
\nTears I can not hide
\nOh, so I smile and say
\nWhen a lovely flame dies
\nSmoke gets in your eyes
\nSmoke gets in your eyes<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YtTbPe0hcvY<\/a>\n

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*Read more at Wikipedia: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smoke_Gets_in_Your_Eyes<\/a><\/p>\n

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Posted by Donna Calvin \u2014 Saturday, April 28, 2012<\/p>\n

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