Elvis Presley Can't Help Falling In Love/Rock A Hula Baby 47-7969 Variant Sleeve

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Can’t Help Falling In Love / Rock-a-Hula Baby

Artist: Elvis Presley

Release: RCA Victor 47-7968 Can't Help Falling In Love / Rock-a-Hula Baby (45)

Release Date: 11/22/1961

Sleeve, labels and record all in EX or better condition. Cover: No 45 RPM or RCA Victor box on one side, the other side with 45 RPM and RCA Victor box without A “New Orthophonic” High Fidelity Recording statement. Disc: (11/1961)2 Black label, dog on top. 45 RPM on two lines on right side. On the Rock-a-Hula-Baby side, (“Twist” Special) (from the Hal Wallis prod. “Blue Hawaii” a Paramount film) on two lines.

"Can't Help Falling in Love" is a song written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss and published by Gladys Music, Inc. Recorded by singer and actor Elvis Presley, it was part of the album Blue Hawaii (1961), the soundtrack to the movie Blue Hawaii. The song was recorded subsequently in the 1960s by Perry Como, the Lennon Sisters, Doris Day, Patti Page, Andy Williams, Al Martino and Keely Smith. In the 1970s, the song was recorded by Marty Robbins, Bob Dylan, the Stylistics, Shirley Bassey, and Engelbert Humperdinck. Through the decades, European artists, including Swedish pop group A-Teens, and British reggae and pop group UB40, recorded their own versions, and grunge band Pearl Jam has covered it at their concerts. Newer versions continue to be recorded by newer artists, such as Kacey Musgraves who recorded a version in 2022 for a movie about Elvis Presley. This song was ranked one of the greatest songs of all-time by Rolling Stone Magazine. Elvis Presley's version of the song topped the UK Singles Chart in 1962, spending four weeks at No. 1. The single is certified Platinum by the RIAA, for US sales in excess of one million copies. In the United States, the song peaked at No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 behind Joey Dee and the Starliters' "Peppermint Twist" and went to No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for six weeks.

During Presley's late 1960s and 1970s live performances, the song was performed as the shows' finales. Most notably, it was also sung in the live segment of his 1968 NBC television special Elvis, and as the closer for his 1973 global telecast Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite. A version with a faster arrangement was the closing number in Presley's final TV special, Elvis in Concert. "Can't Help Falling in Love" was also the last song he performed live, at his concert in Indianapolis at Market Square Arena on June 26, 1977.

The recording appeared on the 1997 CD re-issue Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3 as a bonus track and on the 2002 career retrospective collection ELV1S: 30 No. 1 Hits. In 2010, the song was included on the Viva Elvis: The Album. This is a remixed version that features Canadian singer Sherry St-Germain. Interestingly the track fades out with Elvis repeating part of the 1956 song "Love Me". In 2015, the song was included on the If I Can Dream album on the 80th anniversary of Presley's birth. The version uses archival voice recordings of Presley and his singers, backed by new orchestral arrangements performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The song is used as an anthem by several English football clubs since the 1960s, including Huddersfield Town, Hull City, Swindon Town and Sunderland. According to a 2020 survey by OnBuy, the song is the most popular choice for couples as the song for the first dance at their wedding. "Rock-A-Hula Baby ("Twist" Special)" is a 1961 song recorded by Elvis Presley and performed in the 1961 film Blue Hawaii. The song was also released as a single. The song was recorded on March 23, 1961, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California. The RCA Victor 45 single was released on November 21, 1961, with "Can't Help Falling in Love" as the A-side. Steve Sholes produced the studio recording session. The Jordanaires provided the backing vocals. The song was published by Gladys Music, Inc., Elvis Presley's publishing company and was written by Ben Weisman, Fred Wise, and Dolores Fuller, it is a genre mix of Hawaiian folk and rock and roll. It was the first song published by Fuller, who would eventually co-write a dozen songs for Presley. The title song of the 1991 film Rock-a-Doodle, which featured Elvis Presley's original backing vocal group The Jordanaires, parodied "Rock-a-Hula Baby". "Rock-A-Hula Baby" peaked at No. 23 in the US on the Billboard pop singles chart, No. 1 in Australia, No. 4 in Canada, and No. 1 in the Philippines. In the United Kingdom (UK), where it was a double A-sided release with "Can't Help Falling in Love", it peaked at No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1962, and spent four weeks at the chart summit. When re-released in March 2005, it reached No. 3 in the UK in a four-week chart run.