| Cover: | Jeri Southern - When I Fall in Love.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Jeri Southern with Victor Young and His Orchestra |
| Released: | April 1952 |
| Genre: | Traditional pop |
| Length: | 3:07 |
| Label: | Decca |
| When I Fall in Love | |
| Cover: | When I Fall in Love by Doris Day 78 RPM single.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Doris Day |
| B-Side: | Take Me in Your Arms |
| Released: | July 3, 1952 |
| Recorded: | June 5, 1952 |
| Studio: | Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City |
| Genre: | Traditional pop |
| Length: | 2:58 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Producer: | Percy Faith |
"When I Fall in Love" is a popular song, written by Victor Young (music) and Edward Heyman (lyrics). It was introduced in Howard Hughes' last film One Minute to Zero as the instrumental titled "Theme from One Minute to Zero". Jeri Southern sang on the first vocal recording released in April 1952 with the song's composer, Victor Young, handling the arranging and conducting duties. The song has become a standard, with many artists recording it; the first hit version was sung by Doris Day released in July 1952.
Day's recording was made on June 5, 1952. It was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39786 and issued with the flip side "Take Me in Your Arms". The song reached number 20 on the Billboard chart.[1]
A 1996 recording by Natalie Cole, sung as a duet with her father Nat King Cole using vocals from his 1956 version, won 1996 Grammys for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals and Best Instrumental Arrangement with Accompanying Vocal(s).
| When I Fall in Love | |
| Cover: | Whenifallinlovelettermen.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | the Lettermen |
| Album: | A Song for Young Love |
| B-Side: | Smile |
| Released: | November 5, 1961 |
| Recorded: | 1961 |
| Studio: | Capitol (Hollywood) |
| Genre: | Traditional pop |
| Length: | 2:25 |
| Label: | Capitol |
| Producer: | Nick Venet |
| Prev Title: | The Way You Look Tonight |
| Prev Year: | 1961 |
| Next Title: | Son of Old Rivers |
| Next Year: | 1962 |
| When I Fall in Love | |
| Cover: | Whenfalleninlove.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Rick Astley |
| Album: | Whenever You Need Somebody |
| A-Side: | My Arms Keep Missing You |
| Recorded: | 1987 |
| Genre: | Traditional pop |
| Length: | 3:02 |
| Label: | RCA |
| Producer: | Stock Aitken Waterman |
| Prev Title: | Whenever You Need Somebody |
| Prev Year: | 1987 |
| Title2: | My Arms Keep Missing You |
| Next Title: | Together Forever |
| Next Year: | 1988 |
The version of "When I Fall in Love" by English singer-songwriter Rick Astley was released on November 30, 1987, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the release of Nat King Cole's version of the song. This single is mainly remembered for a closely fought contest for UK Christmas number one. Rivals EMI, hoping to see their act, Pet Shop Boys, reach number one with "Always on My Mind", re-released the version by Nat King Cole.[10] [11] This led to a slow down of purchases of Astley's version, allowing Pet Shop Boys to reach the coveted top spot. Despite selling over 250,000 copies and gaining a Silver certification from the BPI,[12] it peaked in the UK at number 2 for two weeks. The re-release by Nat King Cole reached number 4. Since the single was released as a double A-side, the other half of the single was "My Arms Keep Missing You", which was successful in its own right in Europe. In 2019, Astley recorded and released a "reimagined" version of the song for his album The Best of Me, which features a new piano arrangement.[13] On November 24, 2022, the original music video was remastered to 1080p HD for a limited edition 12" double A-side red vinyl issue of the "Love This Christmas" single.[14] [15]
A review in Pan-European magazine Music & Media considered that Astley's cover version as "surprisingly matching the original" and added: "With the romantic string arrangements and Astley's mature vocals, the perfect seasonal single, bound for a no. 1 in the UK".[16] When reviewing the parent album, British magazine Music Week underlined the track, adding that Astley "stretches his vocal chords on a credible and reverent recreation" of Cole's song.[17] In the same magazine, Jerry Smith deemed it a potential hit in spite of "the cloying strings arrangement", and added that this cover was "not a patch" on Cole's original version.[18] Chris Heath of Smash Hits praised the song as "brilliantly effective" with a "plinkety-plonkety orchestration and Rick crooning away, sounding uncannily like a 50 year old Frank Sinatra type".[19] In another issue of the same magazine, Lola Borg considered it as "truly splendid" and added that Astley "ably croons a slushy lump of woefulness" and that this version is similar to the original since "the sweeping strings are exactly the same, note for note".[20]
| Peak position | |
| Australia (ARIA)[21] | 5 |
|---|---|
| Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[22] | 7 |
| Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[23] | 7 |
| Iceland (RÚV)[24] | 11 |
| Position | ||
| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[25] | 31 |
|---|
| When I Fall in Love | |
| Cover: | When I Fall in Love (Celine Dion and Clive Griffin version).jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Celine Dion and Clive Griffin |
| Album: | Sleepless in Seattle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and The Colour of My Love |
| Genre: | Traditional pop |
| Length: | 4:20 |
| Producer: | David Foster |
| Prev Title: | Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy) |
| Prev Year: | 1993 |
| Next Title: | The Power of Love |
| Next Year: | 1993 |
The cover version of "When I Fall in Love" by Canadian singer Celine Dion and British singer Clive Griffin was featured in the 1993 romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, and released as a single in July same year. The song was recorded expressly for the soundtrack and was originally intended as a duet between Dion and Stevie Wonder, but according to Dion when she heard the demo performed by Warren Wiebe she preferred that would be her duet with Wiebe. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1994, and won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s). The award went to David Foster and Jeremy Lubbock. The song appears on both, the Sleepless in Seattle soundtrack (number one on the Billboard 200 and 4× Platinum RIAA certification for selling over 4 million copies in the US), and later on Dion's album The Colour of My Love, released in November 1993.[26] The song was also included on the japanese edition of Dion's compilation The Collector's Series, Volume One, released in 23 October 2000, on the greatest hits Complete Best, released in 27 February 2008, on the 3CD north american edition of the greatest hits, renamed "The Essential 3.0", released in 29 August 2011 and on the compilation The Best of Celine Dion & David Foster, released in 19 October 2012. The accompanying music video was directed by Dominic Orlando in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
AllMusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine remarked that Dion's album, The Colour of My Love, which featured the song, had "careful production, professional songwriting (highlighted by "When I Fall in Love", "The Power of Love", and "Think Twice").[27] J.D. Considine from The Baltimore Sun wrote that "it's no accident that Celine Dion keeps recording all those movie-theme duets -- she's got the perfect voice for wide-screen romance, all unbridled power and telegraphed emotion." He added that "she sounds great, demonstrating the kind of vocal confidence that originally made Whitney Houston a star."[28] Larry Flick from Billboard felt that Dion "is at home within an arrangement of delicate rhythms and sweeping orchestration", while also noting that Griffin's voice "is a pure thrill."[29] Christopher Smith of Talk About Pop Music said that the singers "do credible justice to Nat’s signature tune as she remains in subdued and romantic mood for the entire length" of the song.[30]
"When I Fall in Love" reached top forty in several countries, including number 21 in Canada, number 22 in New Zealand, number 23 in the United States, and number 37 in the Netherlands. It was popular on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart and the US Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks, peaking at numbers two and six, respectively.
Dion performed "When I Fall in Love" during her The Colour of My Love Tour, Falling Into You Around the World Tour and Millenium Concert in Montreal in 1999. In 1998, Anne Murray performed "When I Fall in Love" with Dion live and included it on her DVD called An Intimate Evening with Anne Murray...Live. Later, this version appeared on Murray's 2007 album .
| Chart (1993–1994) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA)[37] | 93 | |
| Canada (The Record Contemporary Hit Radio)[38] | 31 | |
| Quebec (ADISQ)[39] | 11 | |
| US Cash Box Top 100[40] | 20 |
| Chart (1993) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)[41] | 24 | |
| US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[42] | 28 |
| Region | Date | Format | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States[43] | July 13, 1993 | Epic | ||
| Japan[44] | October 21, 1993 | Mini CD | SMEJ |
