“On records such as the Flamingos’ curiously modernist adaptation of ‘I Only Have Eyes for You,’ a song from the 1934 Busby Berkeley musical Dames…the creative revisions of the old songs were so thorough that they were absorbed into a new existence…As it developed it own distinct language, rock and roll steadily reinterpreted the expanse of American popular music for all to hear” (Albin Zak, I Don’t Sound Like Nobody, 2010).
The Flamingos “I Only Have Eyes For You”
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