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
This romantic song was the theme to the Disney animated movie Aladdin (November 1992), where it was used as the love song between Aladdin and Princess Jasmine. Alan Menken wrote the music and Tim Rice wrote the lyrics. Menken also wrote music for the films Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and Enchanted, as well as the score for Aladdin. Tim Rice was brought in to work on this song after Alan Menken’s songwriting partner, Howard Ashman, died of complications from AIDS on March 14, 1991.
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