I'll Never Fall In Love Again

This song was released as a single by the Welsh singer Tom Jones in 1967. The song was written by Lonnie Donegan and Jimmy Currie and peaked at #2 in the UK charts. In the USA it was originally less successful, only reaching #49, but it was reissued two years later in the US, this time reaching #6.

The name Lonnie Donegan will be familiar to many of you. "The King of the Skiffle" was Britain's most successful and influential recording artist before The Beatles chalking up 24 successive Top 30 hits in the late '50s and early '60s. Jones recalled recording song to The Mail On Sunday February 6, 2011: "This wonderful song was co-written by Lonnie Donegan. I did some shows with Lonnie and we became friends. He was one of the first British guys I heard singing rock in the '50s. One night he said: 'Look, I have this song, you'd sing the pants off it. I've recorded it, but I can't really sing it. It's a sort of a rewrite of a song from the Thirties when the Depression was going on, called I'm Never Going To Cease My Wandering.' I knew that song, because a lot of guys used to sing it in pubs in Wales. I went to his house in Virginia Water, and he got this record out to listen to. It was the B-side of one of his hits. With the big chorus on it, it sounded fantastic. He was singing it Lonnie Donegan style, completely different from the way I did, like somebody busking."

This tune is not to be confused with the Burt Bacharach and Hal David song of the same title, which was a hit for both Dionne Warwick and Bobbie Gentry in the late '60s.