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The formula was a winner as Johnson and Wilson also led three of the 12 songs selected for their first album Flamingo Serenade – George Gershwin's "Love Walked In", "But Not for Me" and "Time Was". The Flamingos had their biggest seller in 1959 with another old standard from that LP, on which Nate Nelson handled lead vocals.
Rolling Stone magazine placed the Flamingos' version of "I Only Have Eyes for You" at number 158 on their 2011 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". [14] In 2003, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [15] In 2009, Johnson said the song was making even more money for him at the time than when the Flamingos were together. [8]
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The Flamingos released the original version of the song as a single in 1959. It reached No. 71 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960. [3]
The song was released on Chess' Checker Records subsidiary in January, 1956, with The Flamingos version going to No. 5 on Billboard's R&B chart, [3] its sales greatly overshadowed by the Pat Boone version released the same month. [4]
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Love Walked In" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The tune was composed in 1930, but the lyric was not written until 1937, for the movie musical The Goldwyn Follies (1938), where it was sung by Kenny Baker .
Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys has been revealed as the song that makes people happiest, according to a specific formula developed by a university professor