"I Only Have Eyes For You" is a popular song 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.
This song was notably recorded in 1950 by Peggy Lee, and in 1959 by The Flamingos, becoming one of their most popular hits for the latter group. Rolling Stone ranked the Flamingos versionversion #157 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. This version was also part of the soundtrack for the 1973 film American Graffiti.
A remake of the song by Art Garfunkel was a
An episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is named after this song, and features the version by The Flamingos.
(copied from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Only_Have_Eyes_for_You)
Harry Warren married Josephine Wensler in 1917. They had a son, also named Harry (who died of pneumonia in 1939 aged 19), and a daughter, Joan.
Warren wrote songs with Ira Gershwin, Mack Gordon, Johnny Mercer, Billy Rose, and Al Dubin. "Chattanooga Choo Choo" was the first gold record. Among his hits are "There Will Never Be Another You","I Only Have Eyes for You", "42nd Street", "Chattanooga Choo-Choo", "Serenade in Blue", "Jeepers Creepers" and "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me".
Warren is particularly remembered for his association with the films of Busby Berkeley. The musical 42nd Street celebrates this. He won the Oscar for Best Song with three different collaborating lyricists: "Lullaby of Broadway" with Al Dubin in 1935, "You'll Never Know" with Mack Gordon in 1943, and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" with Johnny Mercer in 1946.
The only musical score Warren composed specifically for Broadway was Shangri-La, a disastrous 1956 adaptation of James Hilton's Lost Horizon. Warren is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. The plaque bearing Warren's epitaph displays the first few notes of "You'll Never Know". (taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Warren)
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