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Engelbert Humperdinck - The Last Waltz

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Album: Greatest Hits
Released: 1967

The Last Waltz Lyrics

I wondered should I go or should I stay,
The band had only one more song to play.
And then I saw you out the corner of my eye,
A little girl, alone and so shy.

I had The Last Waltz with you,
Two lonely people together.
I fell in love with you,
The last waltz should last forever.

But the love we had was going strong,
Through the good and bad we get along.
And then the flame of love died in your eye,
My heart was broke in two when you said goodbye.

I had the last waltz with you,
Two lonely people together.
I fell in love with you,
The last waltz should last forever.

It's all over now, nothing left to say,
Just my tears and the orchestra playing.

La la la la la la la la la,
La la la la la la la la la.

I had the last waltz with you,
Two lonely people together.
I fell in love with you,
The last waltz should last forever.

La la la la la la la la la.

Writer/s: REED, LES / MASON, BARRY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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The Last Waltz

This was one of Engelbert Humperdinck's biggest hits, spending five weeks at #1 on the UK Singles Chart and also reaching the Top 40 of the Hot 100. It was the standard closing anthem at discos and dance halls for many years.

The song was penned by Les Reed and Barry Mason, who were one of the leading British songwriting partnerships of the 1960s penning hits for the likes of Tom Jones ("Delilah") and The Fortunes ("Here It Comes Again").

Les Reed recalled the story of the song in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh: "When I was a little kid, my father was in the army and my mother and her sisters used to go to a dance every Friday evening at the local YMCA. We could hear the band just across the allotment and I used to wait for the last waltz which was 'I'm Taking You Home Tonight', and as all the men were in the army, the women were dancing together and I knew that when the last waltz came, I would be getting my supper within ten minutes. Mum would just walk across the allotment and get our supper. This would be about half past nine or ten and it was during the war."

"I relayed this story to Barry Mason," Reed continued, "and he said, 'Why don't we write a last waltz'. I was very influenced by Burt Bacharach, so I gave Barry a tape of a melody with a Bacharach type feel to it. When he came back, it was nothing like the story I related to him, but in retrospect he was right to do something more universal. Simplicity came through. It has now taken the place of the last waltz that I used to listen to, in whatever country."

French chanteuse Mireille Mathieu recorded a French-language version, "La Derniere Valse," with lyrics translated by Hubert Ithier. Her cover spent three weeks at #1 in the French pop charts, and also was a hit in Britain, reaching #26.

Petula Clark also recorded the "La Derniere Valse" version, reaching #2 in the French charts in 1968 but not charting in the UK.

Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me (and Let Me Love Again)

Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me (and Let Me Love Again) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Release Me
Released: 1967

Release Me (and Let Me Love Again) Lyrics

Please release me, let me go,
For I don't love you anymore.
To live a lie would be a sin.
Release me and let me love again.

I have found a new love, dear.
And I will always want her near.
Her lips are warm where yours are cold.
Release me, darling, let me go.

Writer/s: STING/MILLER, DOMINIC JAMES
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, WILLIAM A.MC CALL JR.GERALDINE E.SILVA TRUSTEE JAMES B.MCCAL
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Release Me (and Let Me Love Again) Song Chart

A Country classic recorded by well over 100 artists, "Release Me (and Let Me Love Again)" dates back to the late '40s, and has a convoluted history. It was written by Eddie Miller and two of his bandmembers: guitarists Bobby Gene Yount and Dub Williams. Miller fronted an act called Eddie Miller and his Oklahomans, which recorded the first version of this song in either 1949 or 1950.

The song is about a guy who wants to get out of his current relationship so he can pursue another. According to Yount, the song came about when they got to talking about divorce, and Miller wondered if there was some kind of release form one of the spouses could sign. They worked on the song before a gig and came up with the basic version in about an hour.

The original version got little attention, but it was noticed by the Country singer Jimmy Heap, who recorded it in 1953. Ray Price and Kitty Wells also recorded the song, and it soon became a standard, with Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn, Chet Atkins, Roger Miller and Elvis Presley among the many acts to record it.

This was the first single recorded under the name Engelbert Humperdinck, and it became the biggest hit of his career. He had previously recorded as Gerry Dorsey. Humperdinck's 1967 version is the most successful cover of the song.

Long before it became trendy for Pop stars to get their own perfumes, Humperdinck attached his name to a fragrance for women called "Release Me," which was sold through the Home Shopping Channel in 1994.

This single sold 1,365,000 copies in the UK, and it prevented the Beatles' "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever" from getting to #1 and making it 18 consecutive #1s for the fab four. It was #1 in 9 countries and the biggest hit in the UK in 1967.

This song holds the record for the longest stay in the UK charts for consecutive weeks at 56 weeks. It is one of only two records (Acker Bilk's "Stranger On The Shore" is the other) to have spent more than a year on the singles chart in an unbroken run. The song didn't become popular for 3 months until Engelbert Humperdinck was a last minute replacement for Dickie Valentine, who had become ill, on the popular television variety show Sunday Night At The London Palladium, where he sung this song and watched it race up the charts.

According to 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, the idea for the song came to Country music songwriter Eddie Miller in a bar in San Francisco. He overheard a husband and wife talking about their marital troubles. The wife said, "If you'd release me, we wouldn't have any problems and everything would be all right."

This was Esther Phillips' (formerly known as "Little Esther") comeback song after she was rediscovered by Kenny Rogers at a Houston club. Her 1962 version topped the R&B charts and landed at #8 on the Pop charts. Her version was re-released in 1967 after Humperdinck scored with the song, this time going to #93 in the US.

The songwriting credits on this one are tough to decipher. The only name to consistently appear is Eddie Miller, and while Bobby Gene Yount and Dub Williams (listed as his real name, William Pebworth) appear on early versions, they apparently sold their rights to the song to Bill McCall, who owned the label that Eddie Miller and his Oklahomans recorded for: 4 Star Records. McCall used the pen name W.S. Stevenson, so many later pressings credit the song to Miller/Stevenson.