I Only Have Eyes for You by The Flamingos

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 12

Form: Intro → Verse → Transition → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Bridge → Bridge → Verse → Bridge → Transition → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Key changes

• Bridge 3 moves to F major.
• Verse 4 moves to C major.

Section by section

Intro

• B♭7 – G7 – D7
  bVII7 – V7 – II7

Verse 1

• C – B♭ – G7 – C – B♭ (×2)
  I – bVII – V7 – I – bVII

Transition 1

• C – B♭ – G7 – C – B♭ (×2)
  I – bVII – V7 – I – bVII

Verse 2

• C – B♭ – G7
  I – bVII – V7
• C – B♭ (×2)
  I – bVII
• G7 – C – C7
  V7 – I – I7

Bridge 1

• F – Am – A♭7
  IV – vi – bVI7

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Bridge 2

• F – D7 – Gm – C – F – F7
  IV – II7 – v – I – IV – IV7

Bridge 3

• B♭ – B♭m – F – D♭7
  IV – iv – I – bVI7

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 2.

Bridge 4

• F – D7 – Gm – C
  IV – II7 – v – I

Transition 2

Same chords as Transition 1.

Outro

• C – B♭ – G7 – C – B♭
  I – bVII – V7 – I – bVII

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• B♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Gm (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• B♭m (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. Expert by-ear harmonic analysis of the original recording, shown on this page.
• Cross-check: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by David Temperley. Independent by-ear analysis of the same recording. The two analysts agree on the chord (root and major/minor) for 89% of the song.
• Not verified: the two RS 200 analysts differ in places (see their agreement above).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.