WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING
From the Broadway Show "The Isle O' Dreams" (1913)
(Ernest R. Ball / Chauncey Olcott / George Graff Jr. - 1912)

Chauncey Olcott (Broadway Production) - 1913
Harry Macdonough - 1913
John McCormack - 1917
Joseph Regan (feat. in the short film "Metro Movietone Revue") - 1930
Morton Downey (feat. in the short film "Rambling 'Round Radio Row") - 1934
Nathaniel Shilkret's Traveltalk Orch. (feat. in the travelogue film "Ireland:
The Emerald Isle") - 1934
Phil Regan, Pat O'Brien & Edward Everett Horton (feat. in the film "In
Caliente") - 1935
Donald Woods (feat in the film "The Case of the Stuttering Bishop") - 1937
Gene Reynolds (feat. in the film "The Crowd Roars" - 1938
Nelson Eddy (feat. in the film "Let Freedom Ring" - 1939
Ann Sheridan (feat. in the film "It All Came True") - 1940
Dennis Morgan (feat. in the film £Tear Gas Squad") - 1940
David Hughes (feat. in the film "The Long Voyage Home") - 1940
Mel Blanc (as the voice of the Cat in the cartoon film "Notes To You") - 1941
Dick Haymes (feat. in the film "Irish Eyes Are Smiling") - 1944
Mel Blanc (As the voice of Porky Pig in the cartoon film "Trap Happy Porky") -
1945
Bing Crosby - 1946
Dennis Morgan (feat. in the film "My Wild Irish Rose") - 1947
Lanny Rees, William Bendix & James Cagney (feat. in the film "The Time Of Your
Life") - 1948
Bing Crosby (feat. in the film "Top O' The Morning") - 1949
Mel Blanc (as the voice of Tweety Pie in the cartoon "Canary Row") - 1950
Bing Crosby (Re-recording) - 1952
Billy Ward & The Dominoes - 1957
Mel Blanc (as the voice of Daffy Duck in the cartoon "Ducking The Devil") - 1957
Ruby Murray - 1959
Connie Francis - 1960
Hank Locklin - 1964
John Gary - 1964
Jimmy Roselli - 1967
Charles Gaines (feat. in the film "Husbands") - 1970
Dick Van Dyke, Lynn Carlin, Penny Cunard & Jim Raymond (feat. in the TV film
"The Morning After") - 1974
Perry Como - 1994

Also recorded by: Peggy Lee; Al Jolson; Rose Marie; Susan McCann;
Bob Blake; The Beatles; Ann Breen; Robert Brooks; Eileen Donaghy;
Frank Patterson; James Last & His Orch.; Liberace; Finbar Wright;
Allan Bruce; Roly Daniels; Countdown Singers; Daniel O'Donnell;
Frank Zappa; June Smith; Roger Whittaker; Margo; Lawrence Welk;
Tommy Scott; Ronan Tynan: .............. and many, many others.



There's a tear in your eye
And I'm wondering why
For it never should be there at all
With such pow'r in your smile
Sure a stone you'd beguile
So there's never a teardrop should fall

When your sweet lilting laughter's
Like some fairy song
And your eyes twinkle bright as can be
You should laugh all the while
And all other times smile
And now, smile a smile for me

When Irish eyes are smiling
Sure, 'tis like the morn in Spring
In the lilt of Irish laughter
You can hear the angels sing
When Irish hearts are happy
All the world seems bright and gay
And when Irish eyes are smiling
Sure, they steal your heart away

For your smile is a part
Of the love in your heart
And it makes even sunshine more bright
Like the linnet's sweet song
Crooning all the day long
Comes your laughter and light

For the springtime of life
Is the sweetest of all
There is ne'er a real care or regret
And while springtime is ours
Throughout all of youth's hours
Let us smile each chance we get

When Irish eyes are smiling
Sure, 'tis like the morn in Spring
In the lilt of Irish laughter
You can hear the angels sing
When Irish hearts are happy
All the world seems bright and gay
And when Irish eyes are smiling
Sure, they steal your heart away




(Contributed by Ken - March 2003)