This is kind of, sort of, a redux, but more it’s a combination of two previous posts of this song — one in 2018 and one in 2019. Initially, I knew only of the Elton and the “Lion King” versions, but when I posted those in 2018, someone mentioned another by a group called Pentatonix who, at that time, I had never heard of. Turns out, they’re pretty darn good! So, tonight I’m combining the two and you get a double dose of feeling that love tonight!
The song won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Original Song, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. It also earned Elton John the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
Working on The Lion King was a welcome opportunity for Elton, who had a say in how the songs he wrote for the film were used. He contributed most of the songs on the soundtrack, including Circle Of Life, which was also hit (Elton says that “Circle” is a better song and more deserving of the Academy Award).
Just a few years out of rehab, the soundtrack provided a career resurgence for Elton and led to more work writing for musicals – he would later write for Aida and Billy Elliot.
Elton wrote the music, Tim Rice wrote the lyrics. Rice made a name for himself putting lyrics to showtunes by Andrew Lloyd Webber. They wrote songs for Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ, Superstar, and Evita. Like Elton, Tim Rice has been knighted.
And now … heeeeeere’s Elton …
Pentatonix is a talented diverse a cappella group is from Arlington,Texas. They are named after the Pentatonic Scale, a scale with 5 notes per octave that represents the 5 members of the group. They replaced the last letter of the word with an “x” to make it more appealing. In 2011 the third season of “The Sing-Off” with Nick Lachey as host premiered on Sept. 19th and featured Pentatonix. On November 28, 2011 the season concluded…with Pentatonix winning! And here is their version of Can You Feel The Love Tonight …
Can You Feel the Love Tonight
Elton John
There’s a calm surrender to the rush of day
When the heat of the rolling world can be turned away
An enchanted moment and it sees me through
It’s enough for this restless warrior just to be with you
And can you feel the love tonight? It is where we are
It’s enough for this wide-eyed wanderer that we got this far
And can you feel the love tonight? How it’s laid to rest
It’s enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best
There’s a time for everyone, if they only learn
That the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn
There’s a rhyme and reason to the wild outdoors
When the heart of this star-crossed voyager beats in time with yours
And can you feel the love tonight? It is where we are
It’s enough for this wide-eyed wanderer that we got this far
And can you feel the love tonight? How it’s laid to rest
It’s enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best
It’s enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best
Songwriters: Elton John / Tim Rice
Can You Feel the Love Tonight lyrics © Walt Disney Music Company
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Still joyful and touching all these years later. We played this for band in junior high school and such fond memories of doing so.
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I’m so glad you enjoyed it and it brought good memories!!! Have you sung it at bedtime as a lullaby for T?
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The Lion King is one of my all-time favourite films, and whilst Hakuna Matata is my ‘go-to’ song, there isn’t a bad song in that movie. I love every rendition of Can You Feel the Love Tonight I’ve heard, from the original 1994 film version, to the 2019 version.
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Mine too, Ben! Granddaughter Natasha has a Hakuna Matata t-shirt and every time she wears it, the song gets stuck in my head and for a day or two I go around chanting, “Hakuna Matata, Hakuna Matata”. I’m glad you enjoyed the music today!
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I so love this soundtrack, Jill. It stirs sadness in me, though, ever since my oldest son had a friend who committed suicide when they were only teens. She loved Lion King and at her funeral they played this and Circle of Life. I hate funerals almost as much as weddings. 🥺
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I’m really sorry it brought sadness for you, but glad you love the song. I don’t do funerals or weddings … to me, they are both macabre!
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Yes, I agree. My youngest is driving his BP up right now trying to pay for a wedding, honeymoon and the house they plan to buy. And he makes a modest living. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
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Oh my … poor kid! A trip to the Justice of the Peace, skip the honeymoon, and buy an affordable ‘fixer-upper’ would be my advice and probably yours too, but … we have to let them make their own mistakes, don’t we. Meanwhile, we stand by and grit our teeth.
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We do..
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Yuk. And double yuk! Can’t stand the song, and Pentatonix leave me completely cold. They take the soul out of everything they do, not that there was any in this song in the first place. Onward to tomorrow 😉
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I think Pentatonix does pretty good for a capella, their voices are the music. But agreed, yuk on the song itself. I do not even watch Disney movies as a rule. I will bever forgive Disney for what he/they did to lemmings!
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Therein lies the problem with them, for me. In making their voices the music, though they are undeniably good they take all the heart and emotion out of anything they do, and just leave a blandness that I don’t find interesting or enjoyable. I don’t think I’m alone in that over here: they have had very little chart success in the UK.
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I pay no attention to charts anymore. When modern music finds its way to my ears I usually know nothing about the singers. Names are meaningless to me now. 8 need my brain space for other endeavours. 😉
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🤣🤣 Hmmm … well, I shall try to do better tomorrow, but I make no promises!
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I live in hope 😉
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Wow … and here I thought you lived in Kent! 🤣
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Actually, smarty pants, I live in Essex, and have done since I left uni in 1975! I was born and brought up in Kent though, so you aren’t far off 🤣
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Oh my!!! Now where did I get the idea … I think in one of your posts you said you were a “man of Kent”, and that was what stuck in my head. Sowwy! I’ll never remember Essex … I’ll put a postie note on my computer to remind me that “Clive is in Essex”! 🤣
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I am a Man of Kent (as distinct from a Kentish Man – work that one out!) but moved after I left uni, got a job in London and got married. I’ve been exiled for 47 years now!
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Exiled to Essex … almost sounds like a good title for a book!
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Could have been worse: I could have been shipped out to Australia on a boat filled with convicts 🤣
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Yeah, or worse yet, you could have been shipped to the U.S.!!! 😱
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I’m very familiar with Arlington, Texas, since it’s where I live! 😊 Pentatonix is a terrific group. And you already know how I feel about my man Elton.
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Awesome … I’m glad to hear that this one made you smile! I knew you lived in Texas, but didn’t know where. Have a happy Sunday, my friend!
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