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colonel snow

colonel snow wrote:The original version was recorded in 1972 by Engelbert Humperdinck for an album (LP "In time") .

colonel snow

We should hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWnGsMH6qa0

I know a lot of people knock Elvis for singing this, but I really like it, and it's so much better than Eng's version.

Now we know why he came in second to the last when he represented UK in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Private Presley wrote:Now we know why he came in second to the last when he represented UK in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Haha. I'm no Eng fan, but he could sing OK in his day.

Private Presley wrote:Now we know why he came in second to the last when he represented UK in the Eurovision Song Contest.

John wrote:Haha. I'm no Eng fan, but he could sing OK in his day.

I saw him performing in person in the sixties.

He forgot the words to a song.

Colin B wrote:

Private Presley wrote:Now we know why he came in second to the last when he represented UK in the Eurovision Song Contest.

John wrote:Haha. I'm no Eng fan, but he could sing OK in his day.

I saw him performing in person in the sixties.

He forgot the words to a song.

I think that's quite a common thing. Google singers forgetting lyrics on stage, and there are dozens.

https://popcrush.com/singers-who-forgot-lyrics/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyc1EKYV0Vw

Colin B wrote:I saw him performing in person in the sixties.
He forgot the words to a song.

John wrote:I think that's quite a common thing.
Google singers forgetting lyrics on stage, and there are dozens.

https://popcrush.com/singers-who-forgot-lyrics/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyc1EKYV0Vw

Yes, some even had to have written lyrics to refer to while singing...

Colin B wrote:

Colin B wrote:I saw him performing in person in the sixties.
He forgot the words to a song.

John wrote:I think that's quite a common thing.
Google singers forgetting lyrics on stage, and there are dozens.

https://popcrush.com/singers-who-forgot-lyrics/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyc1EKYV0Vw

Yes, some even had to have written lyrics to refer to while singing...

Yeah, I bet Elvis would never, err, umm, I have to go now.