ANNE MURRAY - I JUST FAIL IN LOVE AGAIN

I JUST FAIL IN LOVE AGAIN

ANNE MURRAY

SONGWRITERS: GLORIA SKLEROV; HARRY LLOYD; LARRY W. HERBSTRITT & STEPHEN HARDLEY DORFF

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: NEW KIND OF FEELING

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY POP

YEAR: 1979

 

    Canadian country singer Anne Murray was unaware Dusty Springfield had recorded "I Just Fall in Love Again" just 6 months prior. Springfield was one of Murray's favourite singers, and has said "If I had known (springfield) had released it as a single, I never would have recorded it" as Murray's version of the song largely overshadowed Springfield's. She released it in early 1979, on her Platinum-selling album New Kind of Feeling.

        Murray released her version as a single, and it topped Billboard's Country and Adult Contemporary charts for three weeks, while reaching number 11 on the Cash Box Top 100 and number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

          It was the first of three successive number one Country hits and four consecutive number one Adult Contemporary hits during 1979 and 1980. Though Murray loves the song, she is quoted in The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits as saying she was surprised at its success on the Country charts, as she didn't feel the song sounded very "country". Nevertheless, Billboard ranked it as the number one Country hit of 1979. Murray included the song as a posthumous duet with Dusty Springfield on her own 2007 album Duets: Friends & Legends.

Dreamin', I must be dreamin'

Or am I really lying here with you?

Baby, you take me in your arms

And though I'm wide awake, I know my dream is comin' true

 

And oh I just fall in love again

Just one touch and then it happens every time

There I go by, just fall in love again and when I do

I can't help myself, I fall in love with you

 

Magic, it must be magic

The way I hold you when the night just seems to fly

Easy for you to take me to a star

Heaven is that moment when I look into your eyes.

 

And oh I just fall in love again

Just one touch and then it happens every time

There I go by, just fall in love again and when I do

 

I can't help myself, I fall in love with you

Can't help myself, I fall in love with you.