can you feel the love tonight broadway musical instrumental

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.

Can you feel the love tonight broadway musical instrumental