[2] The Flamingos recorded a doo-wop adaptation of "I Only Have Eyes for You" at Bell Sound Studios in New York City in 1959.
The solution came to Johnson while he was sleeping, and he quickly called the group to his room at around 4 am to have them rehearse the new version, complete with doo-wop backing vocals and harmonies.
[8] Goldner initially thought the song was not commercial enough to be a single, and so he sequenced it first on side two of the album Flamingo Serenade.
[14] 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".
[8] A 1964 recording by Cliff Richard and the Norrie Paramor Orchestra peaked at number 31 on the Australian chart.
[18] In 1972, Jerry Butler's version on Mercury records spent eight weeks on the Billboard R&B chart, reaching a positional high of number 20.