CAN'T HELP LOVIN' THAT MAN

Created on 09/06/2012
Latest update on 18/07/2023

Artist: Helen Morgan
Author: Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II
Label: Victor
Year: 1928

In musical Showboat, along with Tess Gardella, Norma Terris, Alan Campbell & Jules Bledsoe. Helen also sang it in the first two film versions ('29 & '36).

Covers:

1928:

Vaughn DeLeath

1937:

Billie Holiday

1941:

Ella Fitzgerald

1950:

Lena Horne [in film Till The Clouds Roll On]

1951:

Ava Gardner [in film Show Boat dubbed by Annette Warren; on the ST it's her own voice]

1955:

Julie London [on lp Julie Is Her Name]

1957:

Abbey Lincoln

1957:

Eydie Gorme

1957:

Gogi Grant [dubbing for Ann Blyth in film The Helen Morgan Story]

1958:

Eileen Wilson [dubbing for Ava Gardner in third film version Showboat]

1959:

Shirley Bassey

1960:

Excels [small hit US as Can't Help Lovin' That Girl Of Mine]

1960:

Margaret Whiting

1967:

Ila Vann [Northern Soul version]

1979:

Laura Greene [idem]

1985:

Barbra Streisand [with Stevie Wonder on harmonica as Can't Help Lovin' That Man Of Mine]

1990:

Björk [with Trio Gudmundar Ingólfssonar as I Can't Help Loving That Man]

2001:

Charlotte Church

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