"Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)" is the English language name for a 1930 German song composed by Friedrich Hollaender as Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt (literally: "Head to toe, I'm ready for love"). The song was originally performed in the film Der Blaue Engel (English translation: The Blue Angel) by Marlene Dietrich, who also recorded the most famous English version. The English lyrics were written by Sammy Lerner, but are in no way a direct translation of the original.
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"Falling in Love Again" was covered live by The Beatles in 1962, in their early Hamburg touring days. The only recording from the album The Beatles, Live at the Star Club, in Hamburg, 1962, with Paul McCartney singing lead vocals, as well as on the album First Live Recordings. The Beatles had updated the melody to a rock-'n'-roll style with a change of lyrics[1].
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| Single by Kevin Ayers | ||||||||
| from the album Yes We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today) | ||||||||
| B-side | "Everyone Knows the Song" | |||||||
| Released | Feb, 1976 | |||||||
| Format | 7" 45 rpm | |||||||
| Genre | Rock | |||||||
| Label | Island WIP6271 & Harvest | |||||||
| Producer | Muff Winwood | |||||||
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"Falling in Love Again" was Kevin Ayers’ final release on Island Records. The flip side, "Everyone Knows the Song", was an Ayers original. After the release of this single Ayers signed to Harvest Records and both tracks became part of his 1976 album, Yes We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today). The single was also re-released a few months later by Harvest in parts of Europe but featuring the Ayers original "The Owl" on the B-side.
Island release
Harvest release
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| Single by The Adicts | ||||
| Released | 1985 | |||
| Format | 12" | |||
| Genre | Punk, new wave | |||
| Label | Sire | |||
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"Falling in Love Again" is a 12-inch single by The Adicts under the name ADX. It was including in re-released by Captain Oi! in 2002 and by SOS Records in 2006, each with bonus tracks of the 1985 third studio album Smart Alex. In 2002, Taang! Records re-released the album and bonus tracks as The Collection, and the same Smart Alex disc with bonus tracks was released individually in 2004. All including a mix of the classic.
The song has also been recorded by The Comedian Harmonists (in German, as "Wir sind von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt", circa 1930); Zarah Leander (1931, in Swedish); Billie Holiday (1940); Doris Day (1961); Sammy Davis, Jr. (1962); The Beatles (1962, at The Star Club, featured on the album First Live Recordings); Nina Simone (1966); Claudine Longet (1968); The Techno Twins (1981); Klaus Nomi (1982); William S. Burroughs (1990, in German); Marianne Faithfull (1997); Bryan Ferry (1999); The Puppini Sisters (2006); Michael Lutzeier (2008); and Theo Bleckmann (2008). It featured in the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's 40th anniversary tour of 2006; Patricia Kaas (2008, on the album Kabaret);
Madonna sang a few lines of the song during The Girlie Show Tour in 1993. It is also sung by Lieutenant Gruber in an episode of the hit sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
Linda Ronstadt recorded the song with Nelson Riddle for the album "Lush Life" (1984)
The song lyrics are parodied in an original Star Trek novel, How Much for Just the Planet? (1987) by John M. Ford.[1]
Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles contains a memorable performance by Madeline Kahn called "I'm Tired", done as a parody of Dietrich's performance in Blue Angel.
Marlene Dietrich's version of the song was used in a 1997 Mercedes-Benz commercial that Car and Driver magazine rated as the number three top car commercial of all time.[2]
Christina Aguilera covered the song for the soundtrack of the motion picture The Spirit, a 2008 American comic book adaptation, written and directed by Frank Miller.[3]
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