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First Love Never Dies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec7qsRxZ7XsJerryFullerHeathWilson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVzAO6U8x18JerryFuller65Seasons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWmeEMcyhPs JunSilvestreCinema
lyrics
All
at once I miss you
So
long since I've kissed you
How
I love to look into your eyes
My
world is lost without you
For
you are my first love, and
First
love never ever dies
Whenever
I feel lonely
I'm
thinking of you only
One
last kiss and then we said goodbye
The
love I left behind me
Comes
back to remind me
That
you were my first love, and
First
love never ever dies
The
love I left behind me
Comes
back to remind me
That
you were my first love, and
First
love never ever dies
And
if you're thinking of me
And
you find that you still love me
There's
no use to go on living lies
Let's
hurry to each other
For
there could be no other
Yes,
you were my first love, and
First
love never ever dies
First
love never ever dies
In 1938 Jerry Fuller was born in Fort
Worth, Texas. His father was a carpenter who had a voice like Bing Crosby,
while his mom sang like Patti Page. As a musical family, at the age of eleven,
Jerry and his brother Bill became were billed as The Fuller Brothers. His
mother arranged for them to appear at school, churches, talent contests,
minstrel shows and jamborees. Out of high school, Fuller wrote a rockabilly
tune called “I Found A New Love” and got it recorded Lin records in 1958.
Jerry Fuller moved to Los Angeles in
1959 getting work as a demo singer. With this exposure he got signed with Four
Star Music and Challenge Records to write and record songs. His first recording
with Challenge in 1959 was a doo-wop tune called “Betty My Angel”, which became
a Top 20 hit in San Bernardino, California. That same year he recorded an
uptempo cover of the Patti Page pop classic, “Tennessee Waltz.” It went Top 20
in Toronto, Hartford, Connecticut, and Jacksonville, Florida. It became
Fuller’s biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #63.
In 1960 Jerry Fuller wrote “A Wonder
Like You” which peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100
for Ricky Nelson. Also in 1960, Jerry Fuller was
on tour with the Champs of “Tequila” fame. While in New Mexico, Fuller
discovered Glen Campbell on stage at an Albuquerque
nightclub. Fuller was amazed with Campbell’s vocal and guitar talent. He
persuaded Campbell to relocate to Los Angeles. Campbell’s skills quickly led
him to become part of LA’s legendary Wrecking Crew. Campbell assisted Fuller
with a demo of a song Jerry wrote called “Travelin’ Man”, written for Sam Cooke. But the demo found its way to Ricky
Nelson who made it a #1 hit record in the spring of 1961. Nelson would record
19 of Fuller’s songs, including two Top Ten hits in 1962, “Young World” (#5)
and “It’s Up To You” (#4). Fuller, Campbell, and Dave Burgess of the Champs
sang back-up on these recordings.
While Fuller was at Four Star Music as
a writer from 1959 to 1967, he wrote over 400 songs that were recorded by many
recording acts of the era. Fuller has recorded a couple of songs in late 1960
into 1961 that got little attention. But in the summer of 1961 he recorded
“Guilty of Loving You/First Love Never Dies”. “Guilty Of Lovin’ You” peaked at
#94 on the Billboard Hot 100, making #5 in Billings, Montana,
and Top 20 in Dallas. But it was the flip side, “First Love Never Dies” that
got on the charts in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Vancouver. And
here on CKWX the tune had its best chart performance in North America, peaking
at #13. The song did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
