ELVIS PRESLEY – “Can’t Help Falling In Love”
For me, Elvis’ devotional lullaby walks the line between dreamy and dreary a little too finely. The arrangement is immaculate – lulling harmonies; carefully-placed twangs – but the melody and performance are a little too sedate. Perhaps I’d prefer it if the hints of abjection in the lyrics were more than that – for someone pledging his whole life and talking of sin, Presley never sounds like there’s much at stake.
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Another double A-side – ‘Rock-A-Hula Baby’ was on here too. It’s rubbish. I really like ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’ though, definitely one of the better Elvis records from this period.
Rock A Hula Baby is the number one. Can’t Help Falling In Love was the Brown Girl In The Ring of 1962, and similarly much better than the initial hit side. But maybe this was all laid bare before the original comments were wiped out by technology.