"I Fall in Love Too Easily": Song history, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video

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I Fall in Love Too Easily
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Written: 1945	Music by: Jule Styne	Words by: Sammy Cahn	Written for: Anchors Aweigh (movie 1945)
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Sarah Vaughan

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"I Fall in Love Too Easily"

arranged and conducted by Don Costa
for the album Snowbound
recorded New York City, July 23-27, 1962,
album released 1963
CD: an EMI "twofer" including Snowbound and Lonely Hours

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About the Movie Anchors Aweigh

Other songs written for Anchors Away currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook: none

For a complete listing of songs used in the original production of this movie, see IMDB Soundtrack.

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Frank Sinatra sings "I Fall in Love Too Easily"
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Click here to read the lyrics for "I Fall in Love Too Easily" as sung by Frank Sinatra
on the album Best of the Columbia Years 1943 - 1952. This version includes both the refrainand the verse, though not with the verse, which ends with the line "But Love is my Fav'rite Game" clearly set off from the refrain.

Cahn's verse begins with a generalization: There is a class of lovers to which the singer claims to want to belong: "I wish I were the same" as those who can "leave love or take it." He wants to play the "game" in a way that will leave him free from regret. Thus Cahn sets up his refrain to express the singer's realization that love leaves him with a very poignant regret indeed -- because he "falls in love too easily" and "too terribly hard."

The complete, authoritative lyrics for "I Fall in Love Too Easily'"can be found in:

book cover: "Reading Lyrics" Ed. by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball

Reading Lyrics,
Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.

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