English for Meeting & Interview (Teks Percakapan Rapat dalam Bahasa Inggris) written by Irfan Suryana

RELEASE ME
(LET ME LOVE AGAIN)
by Engelbert Humperdinck

 

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A.  Glance of the Song

•         Single by Engelbert Humperdinck

•         Released 1967

•         Genre: Pop

•         Length: 3:18 minutes

•         Label: Decca Records

•         Producer(s): Charles Blackwell

•         Writers: Eddie Miller, James Pebworth, Robert Yount

•         Become the most succesful cover of the song.

•         Sold 1,365,000 copies in the UK.

•         It was #1 in 9 countries and the biggest hit in the UK in 1967.

B.  Singers who Recorded the Song

No.	Singer	Year
1.	Jimmy Heap	1954
2.	Kitty Wells	1954
3.	Ray Price	1954
4.	Elvis Presley	1970
5.	Junior Kimbrough	2002
6.	George Canyon	2007

C.  The Idea

•         According to Robert Yount the song came, when they talked about divorce, and Miller wondered if there was some kind of releasing from current relatonship.

•         The writers worked on the song before a gig and came up with the basic version in about an hour.

•         The idea for the song came to Country music songwriter Eddie Miller in a bar in San Francisco.

•         He overheard a husband and wife talking about their marital troubles. The wife said, "If you'd release me, we wouldn't have any problems and everything would be all right."

•         (According to 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh)

D.  Analysis (The Lyric)

Please release me, let me go

A man begs a woman to let him go but a woman keeps him to be with her
For I don't love you anymore

Because he does not love her again
To waste our lives would be a sin

And being with her is useless now
Release me and let me love again

A man begs a woman to love the best one

I have found a new love, dear

He gets someone who was the best
And I will always want her near

He wants to be next to her forever
Her lips are warm while yours are cold

She also really loves him
Release me, my darling, let me go

A man begs a woman to let him go but a woman keeps him to be with her

Please release me, can't you see

He keeps begging to her to let him go
You'd be a fool to cling to me

Because keeping him as a boyfriend would be useless
To live our lives would bring us pain

Becoming together will give bad impact to both
So release me and let me love again

He keeps begging to her to love another woman

E.   Story

•         A man who wants to get out of his current relationship so he can get another woman.

•         A man who begs to his girlfriend to release him because they are not suitable again.

•         If they keep together, it will only give pain to both.

•         Till the end, a man keeps begging a woman to release him from her to love the best one.

 Source: Internet