CAN’T
HELP FALLING IN LOVE
ELVIS
PRESLEY
SONGWRITERS: GEORGE
DAVID WEISS; LUIGI CREATORE & HUGO PERETTI
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: BLUE
HAWAII
LABEL: RCA VICTOR
GENRE: ROCKABILLY
YEAR: 1961
Elvis Aaron
Presley (January 8, 1935– August 16, 1977), also known simply as Elvis,
was an American singer, musician and actor. He is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century and is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll". His
energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style,
combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a
transformative era in race relations, led him
to both great success and initial controversy.
Presley was
born in Tupelo,
Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis,
Tennessee with his family when he was 13 years old. His music
career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who
wanted to bring the sound of African-American
music to a wider audience. Presley, on rhythm acoustic
guitar, and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, was a
pioneer of rockabilly, an
uptempo, backbeat-driven
fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. In 1955,
drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel
Tom Parker, who would manage him for more than two decades.
Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", was
released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. With
a series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping
records, he became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll.
In November
1956, Presley made his film debut in Love
Me Tender. Drafted into military service in 1958, Presley
relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most
commercially successful work. He held few concerts, however, and guided by
Parker, proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood films and
soundtrack albums, most of them critically derided. In 1968, following a
seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the
acclaimed television comeback special Elvis, which led
to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours. In 1973,
Presley gave the first concert by a solo artist to be broadcast around the
world, Aloha from Hawaii. Years of
prescription drug abuse severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly
in 1977 at his Graceland estate at the age of 42.
With his
rise from poverty to significant fame, Presley's success seemed to epitomize
the American Dream. He is the
best-selling solo music artist of all time, and was
commercially successful in many genres, including pop, country, R&B, adult
contemporary, and gospel. He won
three Grammy Awards, received
the Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted
into multiple music halls of fame. Presley
holds several records; the most RIAA certified gold and platinum albums, the most albums charted on the Billboard 200, and the most
number-one albums by a solo artist on the UK Albums Chart and the most number-one singles by any act on the UK Singles Chart. In 2018,
Presley was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump.
"Can't
Help Falling in Love" is a song recorded by American singer Elvis Presley for the album Blue Hawaii (1961). It was written by
Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George
David Weiss and published by Gladys Music, Inc. The melody is
based on "Plaisir d'amour", a popular French love song
composed in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide
Martini. The song was initially written from the perspective
of a heterosexual woman as "Can't Help Falling in Love with Him",
which explains the first and third line ending on "in" and
"sin" rather than words rhyming with "you".
"Can't
Help Falling in Love" was featured in Presley's 1961 film Blue Hawaii. During the
following four decades, it has been recorded by numerous other artists,
including Bob Dylan on his 1973 album Dylan, Tom Smothers, Swedish
pop group A-Teens, and the British
reggae group UB40, whose 1993
version topped the U.S. and UK
charts.
Wise men sayOnly fools rush in
But I can't help
Falling in love with you
Shall I stay?
Would it be a sin
If I can't help
Falling in love with you?
Like a river flows
Surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be
Take my hand
Take my whole life too
For I can't help
Falling in love with you
Like a river flows
Surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be
Take my hand
Take my whole life too
For I can't help
Falling in love with you
For I can't help
Falling in love with you.
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