keith thomas wrote i could fall in love by selena.
keith thomas wrote i could fall in love by selena.
who wrote i could fall in love by selena?
keith thomas
according to betty cortina of "people" magazine, "dreaming of you" marked a shift that abrogated the singer being marketed as part of her band and billed selena as an american solo artist in "the most fundamental way for her". from 1989, selena's brother a.b. quintanilla became selena's principal music producer and songwriter, and remained so throughout her career. because quintanilla iii was working on the singer's follow-up recording to "amor prohibido" (1994), he could not produce the crossover album. he was asked to meet with several producers in new york and choose one who would best "fit with selena's style". "dreaming of you" was the first album selena's family did not produce. they had decided to step down before the recording sessions and allow professional pop producers to work with her. quintanilla iii and selena flew to nashville, tennessee, and met with keith thomas, who had prepared the instrumental parts for the song called "i could fall in love" but had not yet completed the vocal parts, so he sang it for them. selena and quintanilla iii immediately liked it; quintanilla iii said he wanted selena to include it on her album. recording sessions began in december 1994 at the bennett house in franklin, tennessee; selena had to return later when thomas could provide additional vocals. selena and her husband chris pérez arrived at the studio on march 24, 1995 to finish recording the song. in a 2002 interview, pérez said thomas provided selena with a cassette of "i could fall in love" and said she had the song "on loop" and she "must have heard it a hundred times". he believed it had an "effect on her" because "she went into the studio the next day to actually do the recording and just was nailing things left and right and [thomas] was letting her do her thing and i mean it was an incredible thing to watch".
dreaming of you (selena album)
davitt sigerson, the president and ceo of emi records, feared "i could fall in love" might sell more copies than "dreaming of you", so he did not issue the single as a commercial release. "i could fall in love" was released promotionally to u.s. radio stations on june 26, 1995, at the same time as "tú sólo tú" to demonstrate selena's change from recording in spanish to english. fred bronson of "billboard" magazine said if emi latin had released "i could fall in love" as a single and it had debuted in the top 40 of the u.s. "billboard" hot 100 chart, it would have been the first posthumous debut single to do so since "pledging my love" by johnny ace in 1955. "i could fall in love" peaked at number eight on the u.s. "billboard" hot 100 airplay chart, and at number one on the u.s. latin pop songs chart. "tú sólo tú" and "i could fall in love" occupied the first and second positions respectively on u.s. hot latin tracks for five consecutive weeks. selena thus became the first artist to have both a spanish-language and an english-language song in the top ten of that chart. "i could fall in love" became the fifth-highest-charting song on that chart in 1995 and remained the highest-charting english-language song for two years, until celine dion's 1998 single "my heart will go on" exceeded it when it peaked at number one. "tú sólo tú" spent ten consecutive weeks at number one on the hot latin tracks, becoming the most longevous number-one single of selena's musical career. with "tú sólo tú" and her other chart-topping singles from 1992 to her death in 1995, selena's recordings spent 44 weeks at number one; the most for any hispanic artist as of 2011.
dreaming of you (selena album)