It remained in there for 8 weeks, peaking at #4 on January 13, 1962. Two weeks later it entered the top 10 at #7. On Cashbox magazine’s top-seller list, “Can’t Help Falling in Love” entered at #50 on December 9, 1961. “Rock-A-Hula Baby,” which peaked at #49, lasted only nine weeks on the Hot 100. After 14 weeks on the Hot 100, “Can’t Help Falling in Love” dropped off the chart in the middle of March. It could get no higher than #2, however, denied the top spot by “The Peppermint Twist” by Joey Dee and the Starliters. Three weeks later, on January 6, 1962, the ballad entered the top 10, where it would remain for 6 weeks. But then “Can’t Help Falling In Love” took off, leaving the twist number far behind. A week later, they were still close together at #41 and #47 respectively.
Yet RCA had tremendous hopes for the coupling of ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’ and ‘Rock-A-Hula Baby’ … In the end, agreed to guarantee royalties on a million units, and their faith proved well placed. Parker had ‘Good Luck Charm’ ready to go as the required fourth single of the year, and that’s how he wanted things to stay. Besides, he worried, releasing a single from the film while ‘His Latest Flame’/‘Little Sister’ was still on the charts would only cut into the record’s sales.
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Movie singles must precede the movie and album release by six weeks, and in his estimation any single taken from an already released album (i.e., using songs the fans already owned) would die on the vine. The Colonel’s policy had always been clear. “At the last minute, the label (RCA) asked to put out a single of ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’ during the film’s release. In his Presley recording sessions book, Jorgensen explained Parker’s opposition and how it was resolved: The resistance came from a powerful source in the Presley camp-Colonel Tom Parker. In addition to the above-mentioned resistance to Elvis recording “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” there was also opposition to it being released as a single. Presley’s 1961 version was the first recording of the song, published by Gladys Music, a company created in 1956 to allow Presley to collect future royalties on the songs he recorded. “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” based on an 18th century French melody, was written by George Weiss, Hugo Peretti, and Luigi Creatore. When he finished, he seemed already aware that he’d created a classic.” In contrast to Alan Fortas’s bland reaction, Presley recording session expert Ernst Jorgensen believes Elvis was more than satisfied with the final product: “ The ambition and concentration he put into a marathon twenty-nine takes of ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’ on the final day suggested how seriously he took the beautiful, intimate ballad. Increasing the tempo finally allowed Elvis to lay down a smooth vocal track that satisfied him. He became increasingly frustrated as the number of false starts and abandoned takes mounted up. The original tempo was too slow, requiring Presley to pause seemingly between every word in the lyrics. Getting the tune recorded proved difficult. George Weiss, one of the song’s three composers, claimed that the movie’s producers and Elvis’s aides disliked the song, but Elvis still insisted on recording it for the film. Elvis taped “Can’t Help Falling in Love” on the session’s last day. The sessions were held in Hollywood at Radio Recorders studio on March 21-23, 1961. Elvis recorded the song during the soundtrack recording sessions for his 1962 film Blue Hawaii.
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