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Five Good Covers: Can’t Help Falling in Love (Elvis Presley)

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Apr 302013
 

Five Good Covers presents five cross-genre reinterpretations of an oft-covered song.

1961’s Blue Hawaii marked the start of Elvis Presley’s long and painful slide down the dull razor blade of mediocrity. The movie has little plot, bland acting, and inane dialogue that sounds more suited to the romantic Anakin Skywalker (“You wanna know something – on you, wet is my favorite color”). Meanwhile, its soundtrack featured emetic material like “Rock-A-Hula Baby” and “Ito Eats.” But we’re ready to forgive all the minute we hear “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” Sure, it took a few takes to get it right (give this outtake a listen if you’re in a spot where you won’t get in trouble), but you can’t deny Presley’s performance here, and it would be flat out wrong to try.
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Lake Street Dive Take “Can’t Help Falling in Love” to a Tiki Bar

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Jul 052023
 
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The writer Joe Queenan has written often about Elvis Presley’s film career. He specifically picks out 1961’s Blue Hawaii as a turning point where the output dipped. Not financially—Presley’s record of 31 consecutive money-making movies being untouchable—but in terms of almost all the other aspects of film-making. Nevertheless the film gave us one of Elvis’s all-time classics: “Can’t Help Falling in Love.”

Lake City Dive are consummate musicians that give every song an individual reading and style, hopping across genres where necessary. They like their cover versions to be like coming across the band in a $5 dive bar. For their “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” the bar is a tiki tavern in the hours leading to dawn. Regular featured artist Monica Martin, who is joining them for their Fall Tour, guests as an additional vocalist. Continue reading »

Zayn Malik Reinvents Elvis’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love with You” as an R&B Slow-Burn

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Jul 102018
 
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Three hours after we posted our Best Beyoncé Covers Ever countdown last month, Zayn Malik released a terrific version of “Me, Myself, and I” (it came at least in time for our Best of June list). Luckily, his new Elvis cover arrives before any best-Elvis-covers ranking – because it would surely rank high.

Zayn’s former One Direction bandmate Harry Styles has made notable rock moves since the boy band’s hiatus, having a genuine hit with a song that sounds like ’70s rock radio. So Harry covering Elvis would not surprise (frankly, judging by the number of “Styles Channels Elvis with…” headlines in the past year, it’s shocking he hasn’t). But Zayn Malik displays less overt affinity for rock and roll, which makes his new “Can’t Help Falling in Love” cover more surprising – and also, probably, better. Continue reading »

Beck Delivers Classic Cover of Elvis’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love”

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Apr 202017
 
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As we covered a few weeks ago, the soundtrack for the Amazon original show The Man in the High Castle is chock full of big names covering classic songs. The album is out now, and one of the highlights is Beck covering Elvis’ “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” Like many of the songs mentioned previously, Beck didn’t get too adventurous on this number, opting to stick with what worked the first time. Continue reading »

Dom Does Skeletal Cover of Elvis’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love”

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May 162016
 
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Dom is a solo musical project by Dominic Cournoyer.  Hailing from Worcester, Massachusetts, Dom debuted in 2010 with a critically acclaimed EP, Sun Bronzed Greek Gods, featuring the Boston Music Award song of the year, “Living in America”.  (Not a cover of the James Brown tune from Rocky IV.)

Recently, Dom covered one of Elvis Presley’s most covered songs, “Can’t Help Falling in Love”.  I asked him why he chose to cover that song and he replied that he “just felt what the king was selling only in a more desperate way.” Continue reading »

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