As they sing, two ballet dancers (one male, one female) dressed as birds dance on the stage.
In Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom's Festival of the Lion King, the song is sung by Nakawa and Kibibi. "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" (instrumental) Īccording to a 2020 survey by OnBuy found that couples that chose "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" as the song for the first dance at their wedding were more likely to stay together, with 77% of respondents who chose the song remaining in their marriage. British newspaper The Staffordshire Sentinel concluded with that "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" "creates the perfect romantic atmosphere".
In 2016, David Ehrlich of the Rolling Stone magazine ranked John's performance of the song at the 67th Academy Awards in 1995 at number 12. A reviewer from People Magazine called it "sappy", adding that it is "sure to be song of the year". Ron Fell and Diane Rufer from the Gavin Report said it is "sure-to-be a summer of '94 anthem." The magazine's Dave Sholin declared it as a "beautiful ballad", adding, "It isn't too early to work on that acceptance speech for next year's Academy Awards, Elton." Alan Jones from Music Week gave it four out of five, noting that it is "a heavily orchestrated and dead slow ballad" and "one of Elton's more memorable recent melodies." The Network Forty deemed it an "elegant ballad". Ī reviewer from Swedish Expressen called it a "typical Elton ballad with echoes of several of his old successes". Another editor, Leah Greenblatt, described the song as a "soaring Simba tribute". A winner." David Browne from Entertainment Weekly noted that John's "croon and piano skills are aging quite well". Augusto from Cashbox commented, "From Hollywood’s The Lion King soundtrack comes the always welcome voice of Elton John, who takes a stab at reclaiming his talent for crossover hitmaking with this orchestrated ballad, his most affecting single choice in years." He added, "Moving performance and a heady theme add up to hits radio action as well the usual adult formats and even some classic rock attention. He explained, "He taps into the song's pensive lyric, giving it a warm, human dimension that would be lost on a lesser performer." Troy J. Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, " John's distinctive voice slices through the quasi-orchestral tone of this power ballad". Heather Phares from AllMusic stated that it is a "Lion King classic". Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet described "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" as a "really good ballad". The single release of John's recording (the closing credits version) peaked at number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart for eight weeks. In the follow-up The Lion King 1½, the romantic scene where the song was originally featured also had the song playing, but with a difference: interspersed with the romantic scenes were short comedic shots of Timon and Pumbaa trying to disrupt Simba and Nala's night out with the " Peter Gunn Theme" playing while they try. In 2003, a remixed version of the song was included in the Special Edition soundtrack of The Lion King, again sung by Elton John. The music video of John's recording contains montages of John performing the song and scenes from the film. Within around one and a half months before the film was released in June 1994, John's recording was released throughout radio stations as a commercial single and entered the Billboard Hot 100.
It also included Zulu vocals that, while mostly muted in the on-screen version, were much more prominently featured in the audio-only releases. The final result was the song mainly sung by an off-screen voice (Edwards) with short lines from Simba (Williams) and Nala (Dworsky), and the beginning and end parts by Timon (Lane) and Pumbaa (Sabella).
It was planned to be sung only by Timon and Pumbaa, but John disliked the comical nature of the concept as he declared that the song was meant to follow "Disney's tradition of great love songs", and that it could "express the lions' feelings for each other far better than dialogue could". The single version contains background vocals by Rick Astley, Gary Barlow and former collaborator Kiki Dee. It also earned Elton John the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. It won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Original Song, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. The song, written by Tim Rice and Elton John, was performed in the film by Kristle Edwards (also known as Kristle Murden), Joseph Williams, Sally Dworsky, Nathan Lane, and Ernie Sabella, while another version used in the film's closing credits was performed by Elton John.
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