Description

Cant Fight This Feeling is a number-one power ballad 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 Speedwagons 1984 album Wheels Are Turnin. It was the group’s second number-one hit on the U.S. charts (the first being 1981s Keep on Loving You, also written by Kevin Cronin) and reached number sixteen in the UK. Cant 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 Sex Drive. The song was also heard on the South Park episode Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy, the Fringe episode Power Hungry as well as in the Showtime hit series Queer as Folk. REO Speedwagon performed the song at the 1985 Live Aid concert and it was sung 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 Harvelles 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.

Can’t Fight This Feeling (from Wheels Are Turnin’, 1984)

“After the huge success with Hi Infidelity, we had a misfire with the next album Good Trouble in ’82. Everyone was putting pressure on us to get back in the studio as quickly as we could to ensure we made the most of the situation. As I was the main writer, I was the person who had to get the songs done. But I told them I didn’t have enough of a good enough standard ready. I should have really stuck by my guns and refused to be badgered into recording until I was prepared. But in the end I went with the flow, and that was a mistake. The point is that, had I been allowed to develop and write at my own pace, then Can’t Fight This Feeling would have ended up on Good Trouble, and it might have helped our momentum. I had written the verses years earlier, and had actually done a demo when I went solo for a brief time in the mid-70s. I had even played it to Clive Davis, who was the head of Arista, but he turned it down, saying it wasn’t good enough! But it was a number one single in the States, which shows that even the best music business people can get things wrong. I love to remind Clive he once turned down a charting topping single!”

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REO SPEEDWAGON: Wheels are turnin’ LP + inner. Near mint condition. “Can’t Fight This Feeling”. Great A.O.R / Rock. Check videos + audio etc.