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Thread #20722   Message #4168055
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
20-Mar-23 - 01:49 PM
Thread Name: Songs About Disease
Subject: RE: Songs About Disease
"I'll Never Fall in Love Again" by composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David was written for the 1968 musical Promises, Promises.

Bacharach was hospitalized with pneumonia and wasn't able to sit at a piano to write the music until after he was released. By that time "Hal had already come up with the lyrics to 'I'll Never Fall in Love Again,' and my hospital stay had inspired him to write, 'What do you get when you kiss a girl? / You get enough germs to catch pneumonia / After you do, she'll never phone you.'" When he finally sat with the lyrics in front of him, he recalls, "I wrote the melody for 'I'll Never Fall in Love Again' faster than I had ever written any song in my life."