<P> In the fall of 1968 Bacharach and David were in Boston for previews of Promises , Promises , the new musical for which producer David Merrick had asked if they would write the score , and Merrick realized , `` ' We 're missing a song in the middle of the second act , and what we need is something the audience can whistle on their way out of the theater . ' '' But around this time , Bacharach was hospitalized with pneumonia and was n't able to sit at a piano to write the music until after he was released . By that time `` Hal had already come up with the lyrics to ' I 'll Never Fall in Love Again , ' and my hospital stay had inspired him to write , ' What do you get when you kiss a girl ? / You get enough germs to catch pneumonia / After you do , she 'll never phone you . ' '' When he finally sat with the lyrics in front of him , he recalls , `` I wrote the melody for ' I 'll Never Fall in Love Again ' faster than I had ever written any song in my life . '' The surge of creativity paid off . `` We came in with the song the next morning , and it went into the show a couple of nights later . ' I 'll Never Fall in Love Again ' became the outstanding hit from the score and pretty much stopped the show every night . '' Promises , Promises had its Broadway premiere on December 1 of that year , and the song was originally performed as a duet between the characters played by Jill O'Hara and Jerry Orbach as they ruminate on the various troubles that falling in love brings . They recorded it for the original Broadway cast album . </P>
<P> In the fall of 1968 Bacharach and David were in Boston for previews of Promises , Promises , the new musical for which producer David Merrick had asked if they would write the score , and Merrick realized , `` ' We 're missing a song in the middle of the second act , and what we need is something the audience can whistle on their way out of the theater . ' '' But around this time , Bacharach was hospitalized with pneumonia and was n't able to sit at a piano to write the music until after he was released . By that time `` Hal had already come up with the lyrics to ' I 'll Never Fall in Love Again , ' and my hospital stay had inspired him to write , ' What do you get when you kiss a girl ? / You get enough germs to catch pneumonia / After you do , she 'll never phone you . ' '' When he finally sat with the lyrics in front of him , he recalls , `` I wrote the melody for ' I 'll Never Fall in Love Again ' faster than I had ever written any song in my life . '' The surge of creativity paid off . `` We came in with the song the next morning , and it went into the show a couple of nights later . ' I 'll Never Fall in Love Again ' became the outstanding hit from the score and pretty much stopped the show every night . '' Promises , Promises had its Broadway premiere on December 1 of that year , and the song was originally performed as a duet between the characters played by Jill O'Hara and Jerry Orbach as they ruminate on the various troubles that falling in love brings . They recorded it for the original Broadway cast album . </P>
who first sang i 'll never fall in love again
who first sang i 'll never fall in love again
Jill O'Hara Jerry Orbach
Jill O'Hara Jerry Orbach