Video: Lick The Tins “Can’t Help Falling in Love”
It’s the weekend so here’s a random Irish memory.
Belle of Belfast City and before it Can’t Help Falling in Love were the 2 singles I recall hearing by Lick The Tins when I lived in Britain in the late 1980s.
Blind Man On a Flying Horse was the album by the London Irish quartet - mostly from Ulster which is evident in Alison Marr’s vocals.
Lick the Tins’ version was so manic and fast that it was considerably less than three minutes long. As a result, three polkas were added to the end of the track to bring it to the desired length. London’s Capital Records told Sedition that it was OK, but could be improved if it was made less ethnic, the result being that the single was edited to omit the traditional jigs. It was a hit
Read all of a history of Lick The Tins from John Tobbler in 1991.
While I was enjoying Lick The Tins in England, unknownst to me Can’t Help Falling in Love was becoming popular with some Americans following its inclusion on John Hughes 1987 teen flick Some Kind of Wonderful.
And later again Can’t Help Falling in Love ingrained itself in many Irish people’s affections by being the song the audience were thrown to right at the end of The Snapper - the funniest adaptation from the Roddy Doyle Barrytown trilogy.
Here is then, a video of Lick The Tins performing Can’t Help Falling in Love, though it might not be the video you thought you were going to see:
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