Spanish Eyes

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"Spanish Eyes" is a popular romantic ballad best known through Al Martino’s hit 1960s recording, which became a standard in easy listening and pop music.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Spanish Eyes canonical 6
Spanish Eyes (Moon Over Naples) 1

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Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf song
alsoKnownAs Spanish Eyes (Moon Over Naples)
linked to: Spanish Eyes
basedOn Moon Over Naples
composer Bert Kaempfert
countryOfOrigin United States
decadeOfMajorHit 1960s
firstPopularizedBy Al Martino
genre easy listening
pop music
hasCulturalAssociation Latin-flavored pop ballads
Spanish romantic imagery
hasKeyCharacteristic lush orchestration
melodic string lines
sentimental lyrics
hasMelodicOrigin instrumental composition
hasMusicalForm ballad
hasNotableCoverVersionBy Al Martino
Elvis Presley
Engelbert Humperdinck
Willie Nelson
hasStyle crooner
hasTempo slow
hasTheme farewell
longing
romantic love
isAssociatedWith Al Martino discography
Bert Kaempfert compositions
isFrequentlyClassifiedAs adult contemporary
lounge music
isPartOf 20th-century popular music canon
isStandardIn easy listening repertoire
pop standards repertoire
language English
lyricist Charlie Singleton
Eddie Snyder
notableRecordingBy Al Martino
originalComposerNationality German
originalInstrumentalTitle Moon Over Naples
originalTitle Moon Over Naples
typicalInstrumentation orchestra
string section
vocals
yearOfComposition 1965

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Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Al Martino notableWork Spanish Eyes
Al Martino notableSong Spanish Eyes
Bert Kaempfert notableWork Spanish Eyes
Engelbert Humperdinck notableWork Spanish Eyes
Alfred Cini notableWork Spanish Eyes
Spanish Eyes alsoKnownAs Spanish Eyes (Moon Over Naples)
linked to: Spanish Eyes
Al Martino sang Spanish Eyes