Never Gonna Fall in Love Again

"Never Gonna Fall in Love Again"
Single by Eric Carmen
from the album Eric Carmen
B-side	"No Hard Feelings"
Released	April 1976
Format	7" (45 rpm)
Recorded	1975
Genre	Pop rock
Length	3:45
Label	Arista 0184
Writer(s)	Eric Carmen, Sergei Rachmaninoff
Producer(s)	Jimmy Ienner
Eric Carmen singles chronology
"All by Myself" (1975) "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" (1976) "Sunrise" (1976)

"Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" is a song co-written and recorded by American pop rock artist Eric Carmen. It was released as the second single from Carmen's self-titled debut solo album, the song peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June 1976, remaining in the Top 40 for ten weeks.^[1] The song reached number one on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.

The melody of "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" is based on the third movement (Adagio) from Symphony No. 2 by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.

On his second solo LP, Boats Against the Current, Carmen had a subsequent Top 40 hit entitled "She Did It," which was the antithesis of "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again." It is a happy answer to the loneliness and lovelessness described in this song and its equally melancholy predecessor, "All By Myself".

"Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" was a UK hit for Dana in 1976,^[2] an Australian hit for Mark Holden in 1975,^[3] covered by Tony Burrows in 1976, and by John Travolta in 1980. Spanish singer Miguel Bosé also covered it (in English) in his debut LP Linda from 1977. Japanese singer Yasuhiro Mitani also covered the song.

It should not be confused with a song of the same title, sometimes written as "Never Gonna Fall in Love (Again)" composed by Elton John and Tom Robinson, which Robinson issued as a single in 1979 and John included on his album 21 at 33 in 1980, or with the song from Snow Patrol's second album, When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up.

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts Chart (1976) Peak position Canadian RPM Top Singles 1 Canadian Adult Contemporary [4] 1 New Zealand [5] 30 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [6] 11 U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary [7] 1 U.S. Cash Box Top 100 9 Mark Holden version Chart (1976) Peak position Australia KMR 13

Year-end charts Chart (1976) Rank Canada RPM Top Singles [8] 26 U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary [9] 24 U.S. (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual) [10] 95 Chart (1976) Rank Australia 71

See also

• List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1976 (U.S.)

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
3. "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again - MARK HOLDEN (1976) - Pop Archives - Sources of Australian Pop Records from the 50s, 60s and 70s". Pop Archives. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
4. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
5. "NZ Top 40 Singles Chart | The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Nztop40.co.nz. 1976-07-05. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
6. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
7. "Adult Contemporary Music Chart". Billboard. 1976-06-19. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
8. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
9. Billboard. Books.google.com. 1977-12-24. p. Front cover. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
10. Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 380. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.

External links

• http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6190 - Listen to "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again"
• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics