![]() ![]() It made it to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and spent 6 weeks as #1 on the Easy Listening charts. Featuring Elvis’ soothing vocals, this is a beautiful and irresistible ballad.Ĭan’t Help Falling in Love was released as a single in 1962. One memorable song from Blue Hawaii is the title song, which is a cover of Bing Crosby’s tune from the 1937 film Waikiki Wedding.Īnd here is a clip of Elvis singing Can’t Help Falling in Love in the film Blue Hawaii.Ĭhad/Elvis sings the song just after giving Maile’s grandmother a music box that he picked up while on duty in Austria. Most of it was filmed on the island of Kauai, although there are also several shots of Diamond Head on Waikiki. The Hawaiian islands are a major feature of Blue Hawaii. ![]() It features a surfboard, with a small picture of Elvis playing a guitar (or is it a ukelele?) near the bottom of the poster. Poster for the 1961 Elvis Presley movie Blue Hawaii.Īt left is a movie poster for Blue Hawaii. His main role in the film is to goad Chad into a titanic brawl, a common feature of Elvis movies. As a result, Chad defies his parents and goes to work as a guide for a tourist agency.Īnother character in the movie is Tucker Gates (Steve Brodie). His main ambition is to hang out with his surf buddies and to spend time with his girlfriend Maile Duval (Joan Blackman). ![]() Much like Elvis in real life, Chad has just returned from a stint in the Army. As a side note, at the time of filming Elvis was 26 and Lansbury, who played his mother, was 35! Chad’s snobby mother (Angela Lansbury) expects her son to take over as director of this operation. In Blue Hawaii, Chadwick Gates (Elvis) is the son of the proprietors of the “Great Southern Hawaiian Fruit Company,” a pineapple dynasty. The final touches were recorded in Hollywood’s Paramount studios. In March 1961, Elvis began recording the film’s soundtrack shortly after that, producer Hal Wallis began shooting location shots around various sites in Hawaii. The movie finished among the top-grossing films of 1961.īlue Hawaii would be the first of three Elvis movies to feature Hawaii as the locale. The screenplay for Blue Hawaii was written by Hal Kanter, who would earn a nomination for Best Written American Musical from the Writers’ Guild of America. The melody is based on the late 18th century ballad Plaisir d’Amour. The song Can’t Help Falling in Love, which features in Blue Hawaii, was written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore and George David Weiss. From the period 1964 through 1969, Elvis would film three movies per year. Embed from Getty ImagesĬan’t Help Falling in Love in the film Blue Hawaii:īlue Hawaii was Elvis Presley’s eighth movie, and his second movie in 1961. Parents and music critics were outraged, teen-agers were enthralled, and Elvis became “The King,” a title he never relinquished during his lifetime.īelow is a 1956 photo of Elvis with his manager, ‘Colonel’ Tom Parker. Elvis signed a deal with RCA Victor, and then signed ‘Colonel’ Tom Parker as his manager.īut it was in 1956 that Elvis achieved world-wide notoriety with his hip-shaking versions of songs such as Hound Dog and Heartbreak Hotel. In November of that year, he was voted most promising young male artist at the Country Disc Jockey Convention. Elvis achieved regional renown in 1954 with his rockabilly cover of Arthur Crudup’s blues song That’s All Right.īy mid-1955, Elvis was beginning to carve out a national reputation. Next we will skip to 1968, the year of his so-called ’68 Comeback Special.Įlvis first burst into the public consciousness through the songs issued from Sam Phillips’ Sun Records studio. Here we will briefly review Elvis’ career around 1961, when heįilmed the movie Blue Hawaii. We began with a blog post about the song Hound Dog a second post on the song Always On My Mind a post about the song Heartbreak Hotel a post on Blue Moon Of Kentucky a post on the song Little Darlin’ a post on Long Tall Sally and a post on Jailhouse Rock. We will then discuss a cover of Can’t Help Falling in Love by UB40.Įlvis Presley and Can’t Help Falling in Love:Įlvis Presley is one of our favorite rock artists, and we have written many blog posts about his life and career. This week’s entry is Can’t Help Falling in Love, a lovely pop ballad recorded by Elvis Presley that appeared in his 1961 movie Blue Hawaii. In these posts, we review a rock and roll tune that features prominently in a film. Hello there! This is another entry in our blog series Tim’s Cover Story Goes to the Movies.
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