About The Song
– “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” is a song originally written by Lonnie Donegan and Jimmy Currie in 1962. However, it is often associated with Elvis Presley, who recorded a version of the song in 1976.
American Elvis Presley and Welshman Tom Jones got on well together. A sort of mutual admiration society. Did Tom Jones suggest to Elvis that he record Tom’s hit I’ll Never Fall In Love Again, or was it just that Elvis wanted to see if he could outsing the boy from the Valleys? Perhaps he simply liked the number.
Whatever the reason, on 4 February 1976, during what would prove to be Elvis’s last recording session, Elvis attempted the number. This is what Ernst Jorgensen writes about it in his book, Elvis Presley: A Life In Music:
The [Welsh] star had sighed, moaned, purred, and belted his way through the song… Elvis, though, could no longer compete. It wasn’t so much power as tonality that he’d lost, and while he seemed to be trying as hard as he could, it was clear that he could neither hit the notes nor convey the feeling. Discouraged, he set the song aside for later… They did return to finish the Tom Jones song with a reasonable performance, whose shortcomings Felton [Jarvis] made up for in overdub.
And, really, that’s a fair assessment.
Elvis’s version was released on the album From Elvis Presley Boulevard, so called because the recording session actually took place in the Jungle Room of Graceland, situated on Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis.
But what is interesting is that Elvis not only recorded I’ll Never Fall In Love Again; he also recorded, albeit informally, Wanderin’, thereby demonstrating his knowledge of the roots of his music.
– Recorded in the “Jungle Room” and included as the final song on the album “From Elvis Presley Boulevard Memphis, Tennessee” (1976). Elvis struggles to keep this one together at times vocally, as just some unbelieveable emotion is transmitted to the listener. It seems at times, Elvis is about to start actually crying and at other points he shouts the lyrics. They said people present at his recordings of “Are You Lonesome Tonight” and “How Great Thou Art” were moved to tears, and I can imagine the ones present for this recording were too. “Hurt” opened this album and it is was emotional, this song closed it and it is gut-wrenching.
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Lyric
I’ve been in love so many timesI thought I knew the scoreNow you treated me so wrongI can’t take anymoreAnd it looks likeI’m never gonna fall in love againFall in loveI’m never gonna fall in loveI mean it, I mean itFall in love againI gave my heart so easilyCast aside my prideWhen I saw you in his arms, babyI broke up and criedAnd it looks likeI’m never gonna fall in love againThat’s what I’m sayin’Fall in loveNo, I’m never gonna fall in lovePlease, don’t make meFall in love againThat’s what I’m- (fall in love)No, I’m never gonna fall in lovePlease, don’t make me, don’t make meFall in love again