I'll Never Fall in Love Again
| "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" | |||||||||
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| Single by Burt Bacharach | |||||||||
| Genre | Pop music | ||||||||
| Writer(s) | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | ||||||||
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"I'll Never Fall In Love Again" is a popular song by composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David. Originally written for the 1968 musical Promises, Promises, it soon became one of Bacharach and David's most enduring songs. It was nominated for Song of the Year in the 1969 Grammy awards. A version with studio singers was released as a single under Burt Bacharach's name in 1969, and achieved a low chart position.
"I'll Never Fall In Love Again" became a hit for Bobbie Gentry when it reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for a single week in October 1969. In January 1970, it became a number six hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and a number-one hit on the Easy Listening chart for Dionne Warwick.[1] Warwick's version, arranged and produced by Burt Bacharach and recorded in 1969, also reached number three on the Canadian Chart and crossed over into the Top 20 R&B Chart and became an international million seller. Warwick's album of the same name containing the single won a 1971 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance-Female. Ella Fitzgerald's version became a minor hit in September 1969 and charted briefly. It was also the best-charting single in a cover version for Scottish band Deacon Blue, peaking at number two in the UK Singles Chart.
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The song's narrator ruminates on the various troubles that falling in love brings — including "enough germs to catch pneumonia" as the result of a kiss — and declares that (at least until tomorrow) he'll "never fall in love again." The line about pneumonia was inspired by the fact that Burt had just recovered from pneumonia.[2]
[edit] Covers of note
This song has been covered many times:
- Dionne Warwick (#6 US,#3 Canada, #17 US R&B, #1 US Adult Contemporary)
- Liza Minnelli
- Herb Alpert
- Liz Anderson (reached #56 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1972)
- Chet Atkins
- Shirley Bassey (on her 1969 album Does Anybody Miss Me)
- Deacon Blue (#2 UK, #2 IRL)
- Núria Feliu
- The Carpenters
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
- Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach (featured in the 1999 movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Bobbie Gentry
- Emmylou Harris (on her 1969 album Gliding Bird)
- Isaac Hayes (on his 1971 album Black Moses)
- Bradley Joseph
- Mark Lindsay (on his 1970 album Arizona)
- Richard Marx
- Tom Jones
- Johnny Mathis
- Anne Murray
- The Real Group
- Sitti
- Splitsville (on the 2001 album The Complete Pet Soul)
- Dusty Springfield
- Trijntje Oosterhuis
- The Whitlams
- Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth
- Rigmor Gustafsson
- Tok Tok Tok
- Ronan Keating on the album "When Ronan Met Burt" (2011)
- YeonGene (Korean musician) on the album "Me and My Burt" (2006) and re-released on the album "BonnieGene" (2010)
- Ornella Vanoni
- Catherine Spaak & Johnny Dorelli
[edit] See also
- List of number-one singles of 1969 (Ireland)
- List of number-one singles from the 1960s (UK)
- List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1970 (U.S.)
[edit] References
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 254.
- ^ Zollo, Paul (2003). Songwriters on songwriting. New York, N.Y: Da Capo. ISBN 0-306-81265-7.
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| Preceded by "Je t'aime... moi non plus" by Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg |
UK number one single October 18, 1969 |
Succeeded by "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies |
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