Can't Fight This Feeling

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Name = Can't Fight This Feeling


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Artist = REO Speedwagon
Album = Wheels Are Turnin'
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Released = December 31,1984 (Worldwide) January 23,1985
Format = Vinyl
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Genre = Rock, Power Ballad
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Writer = Kevin Cronin
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Last single = "I Do' Wanna Know"
(1984)
This single = "Can't Fight This Feeling"
(1984)
Next single = "One Lonely Night"
(1985)
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"Can't Fight This Feeling" is a number-one song from REO Speedwagon about a man falling in love with a girl with whom he has been a friend for a long time.

The song first appeared on REO Speedwagon's 1984 album "Wheels Are Turnin'". It was the group's second number-one hit on the U.S. charts (the first being 1981's "Keep on Loving You", also written by Kevin Cronin) and reached number sixteen in the UK. "Can't Fight This Feeling" has appeared on dozens of 'various artists' compilation albums, as well as several REO Speedwagon greatest hits albums. It has also been featured on soundtracks of movies such as "Not Another Teen Movie", "Waiting...", and, most recently, "Kickin' It Old Skool" and was also heard on the South Park episode Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy. REO Speedwagon performed the song at the 1985 Live Aid concert and at the end of Horton Hears a Who.

It was referred to again recently in The CW show "Supernatural" (in the second season episode #5, "Simon Said", Jo Harvelle turns this song on for Dean Winchester in Harvelle's Roadhouse, later he sings it in the car claiming the song had stuck in his head). It was also featured prominently in advertising for the film "Horton Hears a Who," and sung by the major characters near the end of the movie as the titular character celebrates his vindication and his charges' salvation. It was also used in a Valentine's Day 2008 commercial for Hallmark Cards.

Two different music videos exist for the song. One is a basic video, appearing almost homemade, featuring the band in the studio. It begins with Kevin Cronin playing the piano, attempting to find the key in which he can best sing the song (starting off in G major, he later decides he can sing it better in A). After Cronin exchanges some laughs with his bandmates, the song officially begins; the video essentially consists of the band members lip-synching to the original track of the song. It then concludes with Cronin uttering the memorable line, "That warmed the cockles of my cockles!"

The other version of the video is much more "professional," and makes various references to the life-cycle.

Both videos have been shown at various times on VH1 Classic.

External links

* [http://www.speedwagon.com REO Speedwagon Web Site]
* [http://www.kevincronin.com Kevin Cronin Official Website]
* [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/REOFANS REO Speedwagon eGroup]