<Ul> <Li> Otto Harbach </Li> <Li> Jerome Kern </Li> </Ul> <Tr> <Th> Producer (s) </Th> <Td> Ray Sinatra </Td> </Tr> <P> "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for their 1933 musical Roberta . The song was sung in the original Broadway show by Tamara Drasin . Its first recorded performance was by Gertrude Niesen, who recorded the song with orchestral direction from Ray Sinatra, Frank Sinatra's second cousin, on October 13, 1933 . Niesen's recording of the song was released by Victor, catalog #VE B 24454, with the B - side, "Jealousy", featuring Isham Jones and his Orchestra . </P> <P> Paul Whiteman had the first hit recording of the song on the record charts in 1934 . The song was later reprised by Irene Dunne, who performed it in the original 1935 film adaptation of the musical, co-starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Randolph Scott . The song was also included in the 1952 remake of Roberta, Lovely to Look At, in which it was performed by Kathryn Grayson, and was a chart hit in 1958 for The Platters . </P>

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