IF I EVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN
KENNY ROGERS & ANNE MURRAY
SONGWRITERS: S. DORFF & G. SKLEROV
COUNTRY: U. S. A. X CANADA
ALBUM: SOMETHING INSIDE SO STRONG
LABEL: WARNER BROS
GENRE: COUNTRY MUSIC
YEAR: 1989
Morna Anne Murray CC ONS (born June 20, 1945) is a Canadian singer. Her albums consisting
primarily of pop,
country,
and adult contemporary music have sold over
55 million copies worldwide during her 40-year career.
Murray was the first Canadian female solo
singer to reach Nº. 1 on the U.S. charts, and also the first to earn a Gold
record for one of her signature songs, "Snowbird"
(1970). She is often cited as one of the female Canadian artists who paved the
way for other international Canadian success stories such as k.d. lang,
Céline Dion,
and Shania Twain.
She is also the first woman and the first Canadian to win "Album of the
Year" at the 1984 Country Music Association Awards for her Gold-plus 1983 album A Little Good News.
Murray
has received four Grammys, a record 24 Junos, three American Music Awards,
three Country Music Association Awards, and three Canadian Country Music
Association Awards. She has been inducted into the Canadian
Country Music Hall of Fame, the Juno Hall of Fame, The Canadian Songwriters
Hall of Fame, and Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. She is
a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame Walkway of Stars in Nashville,
and has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles and on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto.
In 2011, Billboard ranked her 10th on their list of the 50 Biggest Adult
Contemporary Artists Ever.
Kenneth Ray Rogers (August 21, 1938 – March
20, 2020) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, record producer,
and entrepreneur. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rogers was particularly popular with country audiences but
also charted more than 120 hit singles across various music genres, topping the
country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United
States alone. He sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his
lifetime, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
His fame and career spanned multiple genres: jazz, folk, pop, rock, and
country. He remade his career and was one of the most successful cross-over
artists of all time.
In
the late 1950s, Rogers began his recording career with the Houston-based group
the Scholars, who first released "The Poor Little Doggie". After
some solo releases, including 1958's "That Crazy Feeling", Rogers
then joined a group with the jazz singer Bobby Doyle. In 1966 he became a member of
the folk ensemble the New Christy Minstrels, playing
double bass and bass guitar as well as singing. In 1967, he and several members of the New
Christy Minstrels left to found the group the First Edition, with whom he scored his
first major hit, "Just Dropped In (To See What
Condition My Condition Was In)", a
psychedelic rock song which peaked at number five on the Billboard charts. As Rogers took an increased leadership role in the First
Edition following the success of 1969's "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town",
the band gradually changed styles to a more country feel. The band broke up in 1975–76, and Rogers embarked on a long
and successful solo career, which included several successful collaborations,
including duets with singers Dolly
Parton and Sheena Easton and a songwriting partnership with Lionel Richie.
His signature song, 1978's "The
Gambler", was a crossover hit that won him a Grammy Award in 1980 and was selected in 2018 for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library
of Congress. He developed the Gambler
persona into a character for a successful series of television films starting with 1980's Emmy-nominated
Kenny Rogers as The Gambler.
Rogers' albums The
Gambler and Kenny were featured in the About.com poll of "The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever". He
was voted the "Favorite Singer of All Time" in a 1986 joint poll by
readers of both USA Today and People.
He received numerous awards, such as the AMAs,
Grammys,
ACMs, and CMAs as well as a lifetime achievement
award for a career spanning six decades in 2003. Later success included the
2006 album release Water
& Bridges, an across-the-board hit that
hit the Top 5 in the Billboard Country Albums sales charts, also charting in the Top 15 of the Billboard 200.
The first single
from the album, "I Can't Unlove You", was also a sizable
chart hit. Remaining a popular entertainer around the world, he
continued to tour regularly until his retirement in 2017.
Rogers had acting roles in movies and
television shows, including the title roles in Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, the
MacShayne series for The
NBC Mystery Movie, and the 1982 feature film Six Pack.
He was a co-founder of the restaurant chain Kenny
Rogers Roasters in collaboration with
former Kentucky
Fried Chicken CEO John Y. Brown Jr. Although the stores closed in the United States, they are still a
fixture in Asia.
"If I Ever Fall in Love Again" is a
song written by Steve Dorff and Gloria Sklerov, and performed by Anne Murray and Kenny Rogers as a duet. The song reached number six on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart and number nine on the Canadian Country chart in. It was released in
September 1989 as the first single from Murray's compilation álbum Greatest Hits Volume II and Roger's studio album Something Inside So Strong. The
song was produced by Jim Ed Norman and Steve Dorff.
The song didn't fare very well in North America (with the exception of the
Country and Adult Contemporary Charts in Canada), but in the Philippines it
became a number one hit.
[Kenny]
You, I know you're everything that I've been looking for.
And I, I look into your eyes and could not ask for more.
[Anne]
So it's only fair to lay it on the line.
Hold on, I'm gonna need a little time
[Duet]
But if I ever fall in love again
Sometime when this broken heart can mend.
I know it's gonna be with you,
You're the one to pull me through, though I don't know when.
If I ever fall in love again.
[Anne]
Scared, yes I'm scared to fly, it's such a long way down.
And yet, if you'll just trust in me, I'm sure I'll come around.
[Kenny]
And I know when you're hurt, it's hard to let someone inside,
[Duet]
In your arms I feel I'm ready now to try.
[Duet]
So if I ever fall in love again
Sometime when this broken heart can mend.
I know it's gonna be with you,
You're the one to pull me through, though I don't know when.
If I ever fall in love again.
[Anne]
I'd be a fool to ever let you go.
[Duet]
You're the best thing in my life,
[Rap]
And feels like there’s never end.
How do I say baby whispers of memory?
Under your love, under your world,
How to your lips and we kiss you and I in the pure clouds.
[Music bridge]
[Kenny]
Oh, I know it's gonna be with you...
You're the one to pull me through, though I don't know when.
[Duet]
If I ever fall in love again
If I ever fall in love again.
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