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I Can't Make You Love Me

Music by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin

Originally Performed by Bonnie Raitt

"I Can't Make You Love Me" is a song written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin and recorded by American singer Bonnie Raitt for her eleventh studio album Luck of the Draw (1991). Released as the album's third single in 1991, "I Can't Make You Love Me" became one of Raitt's most successful singles, reaching the top-20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the top-10 on the Adult Contemporary. In August 2000, Mojo magazine voted "I Can't Make You Love Me" the eighth best track on its The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time list. The song is ranked at number 339 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. On 27 November 2016, the Grammy Hall of Fame announced its induction, along with that of another 24 songs

    Release Date: 1991


Songbooks, Arrangements and/or Media

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Deke Sharon : Love Songs A Cappella : Mixed 5-8 Parts : Songbook : 073999565096 : 0634055240 : 08743515

Deke Sharon : Love Songs A Cappella

Love Songs are a staple of most performing groups. Here are five different expressions of love, scored for mixed voices, in five-part SATB (div).

Songlist: Helplessly Hoping, How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You), I Can't Make You Love Me, So Far Away, True Colors

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Voicing: Mixed 5-8 Parts | 1009b | Songbook | $5.95 | A Cappella


Deke Sharon : Women's Classic Pop Vol 4 : SSAA : Sheet Music Collection

Deke Sharon : Women's Classic Pop Vol 4

"Time After Time" - A modern classic, this Cyndi Lauper ballad is perfect for an intermediate women's ensemble, ready to tackle gentle arpeggiations and delicate parallel harmonies. "Heart of Glass" - A powerful soprano solo sits atop your SATB band as the groove their way through this Blondie classic. A great way to introduce your singers to modern polyrhythms and non-standard syllables in a format that's easy for them to understand and internalize. "I Can't Make You Love Me" - With rich harmonies, delicate arpeggiations and a soaring, heartfelt melody, this showstopping Bonnie Raitt ballad makes a perfect penultimate number. "Imagine" - This simple, sweet setting of John Lennon's song of hope features a soprano soloist. Perfect for a group looking for a good first a cappella song, or a more advanced group interested in focusing on nuance and sincerity.

Songlist: Heart of Glass , I Can't Make You Love Me, Time After Time, Imagine

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Voicing: SSAA | 7202b | Sheet Music Collection | $7.65 | A Cappella


Gareth Malone : Voices : SATB : Songbook : 14042914

Gareth Malone : Voices

This collection from the young British choirmaster Gareth Malone includes the main songs from his album Voices. It's his most personal album, embodying his vision for the future for choral music. After searching the UK for the most talented young voices in the country he formed a genre-breaking new group.

Songlist: Hamburg Song, Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Calgary, A Little Respect, Nights in White Satin, White Winter Hymnal, No Surprises, Video Games, I Can't Make You Love Me, Go Your Own Way, Passion Choral

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Voicing: SATB | 4547b | Songbook | $24.95 | A Cappella


Michael Dansicker : The 16-Bar Pop/Rock Audition - Women's Edition : Solo : Songbook : 884088312497 : 1423468864 : 00001215

Michael Dansicker : The 16-Bar Pop/Rock Audition - Women's Edition

Many large theatre auditions call for a 16-bar excerpt, and sometimes specifically request pop/rock songs. This book unprecedentedly answers that need. Beyond theatre, this volume will be useful for other audition calls requiring a brief song. Each volume includes great songs from the 1950s to the 21st century. Each excerpt has been given a thoughtful and effective form.

Songlist: Hero, Without You, Holding Out For A Hero, Crazy, Beautiful, I Need You, Solitaire, Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now), Walk On By, I'll Be There, Time After Time, I'll Stand By You, Remember Me This Way, This Ain't A Love Song, You Learn, I Will Remember You, Don't Stop, All By Myself, All My Loving, So Far Away, Listen, All Through The Night, It's Too Late, Alone, Reflection, I Will, Superstar, You'll Be In My Heart (Pop Version), I Wanna Love You Forever, Somebody To Love, and more

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Voicing: Solo | 3016b | Songbook | $22.95 | Voice and Piano


Professional Music Institute : Pro Charts for Jazz Singers - Medium Low : Solo : Songbook & CD : 44017

Professional Music Institute : Pro Charts for Jazz Singers - Medium Low

Top vocal jazz arranger Nick Fryman presents a selection of classic jazz standards in the style of some of the best jazz singers in the business. Includes CD accompaniment with and without guide melody.

Songlist: Popsicle Toes, On Green Dolphin Street, Giving You The Best That I Got, Better Than Anything, Here's To Life, Close Your Eyes, I Can't Make You Love Me, Do It Again!

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Voicing: Solo | 5028b | Songbook & CD | $19.95 | Accompanied


Professional Music Institute : Pro Charts for Jazz Singers - Medium High : Solo : Songbook & CD : 44016

Professional Music Institute : Pro Charts for Jazz Singers - Medium High

Top vocal jazz arranger Nick Fryman presents a selection of classic jazz standards in the style of some of the best jazz singers in the business. Includes CD accompaniment with and without guide melody.

Songlist: Popsicle Toes, On Green Dolphin Street, Giving You The Best That I Got, Better Than Anything, Here's To Life, Close Your Eyes, I Can't Make You Love Me, Do It Again!

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Voicing: Solo | 9414b | Songbook & CD | $19.95 | Voice with Jazz Combo


Various : Love Ballads : Solo : Songbook : 888680977528 : 1540070344 : 00323069

Various : Love Ballads

30 heart-warming favorites, including: All of Me - Beautiful Crazy - Evermore - Have I Told You Lately - I Can't Make You Love Me - Just the Way You Are - Perfect - Right Here Waiting - Someone You Loved - A Thousand Years - You Are the Reason - Your Song - and more. Listen to a Spotify playlist of all the songs from this book!

Songlist: Remedy, Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now), Love Of My Life, Perfect, Heaven, All Of Me, All Out Of Love, Love Is Alive, Speechless, Never Enough, Just The Way You Are, A Thousand Years, Love Someone, Your Song, Where Do Broken Hearts Go, I Get To Love You, Say You Won't Let Go, Evermore, You Are The Reason, I'll Never Love Again, Someone You Loved, Beautiful Crazy, Best Part Of Me, Have I Told You Lately, Lover, Grow As We Go, I Want To Know What Love Is, Right Here Waiting, You're The Inspiration, I Can't Make You Love Me

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Voicing: Solo | 70762b | Songbook | $17.99 | PVG


Calamity Jane : The Road Ahead : 1 CD

Calamity Jane : The Road Ahead

The Janes take a collection of songs that Thirty-Something Girls Like-"I Can't Make You Love Me," "Woodstock" and "Like A Prayer" are just several, but they're all good-begin with carefully constructed arrangements and pour their seven voices in a thick layer over the top. Sometimes "all-girl" groups can lack ballast on the bottom end, but Calamity Jane-as their name implies-gets the job done, relying on a foundation of dense block chords and ground bass figures. These gals aren't striving for a delicate, girly sound, but demonstrate that they can more than hold their own in the male-dominated world of contemporary a cappella.

Songlist: Shaking The Tree, It's All In The Game, Walking On Broken Glass, I Can't Stand The Rain, I Can't Make You Love Me, You Gotta Be, Son Of A Preacher Man, I'll Be There, You're No Good, Woodstock, Best Of My Love, To Sir With Love, Take Me To The River, Constant Craving, Would I Lie To You?, Shed A Little Light, Like A Prayer

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2887c | 1 CD | $14.98 | A Cappella


Fretless : All The Things We Are : 1 CD

Fretless : All The Things We Are    Out of Print

Fretless chose its name to represent the freedom, and challenge, of making music with a fretless instrument, the human voice. These five (3 men, 2 women) multitalented singers sharpened their chops performing with many other jazz and classical groups, particularly those performing in the Boston area; they began singing together in 1999. "All the Things" is a finely-crafted, varied collection of 18 covers ranging from the classical and sacred (Palestrina's "Exultate Deo," Debussy's "Dieu! Ou'il La Fait Bon Regarder!," Durufle's "Ubi Caritas" and "Brahms' Lullaby") and rock (Loggins & Messina's "Your Mama Don't Dance" and the LaBelle hit "Lady Marmalade," to pop and R&B ("James Taylor's "Lonesome Road," Randy Newman's "Short People" and Smokey Robinson's "Tracks of My Tears") reggae (Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross") show tunes (Hammerstein's "All the Things You Are" and Gene Krupa's "Some Like It Hot", arranged by Mel Torme) and jazzy blues (the Lambert/Hendricks/Ross arranged "Moanin'"). We particularly enjoyed soprano Anna Choi's solos on "I Can't Make You Love Me," "Tracks of My Tears," "Many Rivers to Cross" and "Lady Marmalade." An impressive, very entertaining debut CD from talented Fretless!

Songlist: All The Things You Are, Your Mama Don't Dance, I Can't Make You Love Me, Exultate Deo, Brahams' Lullaby, Short People, It Must Be Me, Tracks Of My Tears, O My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose, Dieu! Qu'il La Fait Bon Regarder, Some Like It Hot, Let Them In, Peter, That Lonesome Road, Cry Me A River, Many Rivers To Cross, Ubi Caritas, Moanin', Lady Marmalade

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7703c | 1 CD | $14.98 ON SALE $ | A Cappella


UNC Clef Hangers : Breeze : 1 CD

UNC Clef Hangers : Breeze

In the 25 years it has been in existence, the University of North Carolina's Clef Hangers have constantly redefined themselves. The twenty men of the 2001-03 group share the goal of having a blast while they do what they love: singing. "Breeze" takes advantage of, even pushes the envelope of, advances in a cappella recording. Thirteen well-chosen covers, with "real-sounding" percussion, very full sound, solid backup vocals, excellent leads. Some favorites" Bush's "Comedown," The Commodores' "Easy," Weezer's "Say It Ain't So," Elton John's "Your Song," Rascal Flatts' "This Everyday Love," Dave Matthews' "Grey Street," PM Dawn's "Die Without You" and Toto's "Africa." Great stuff!

Songlist: Comedown, Easy, Say it Ain't So, So Fresh and So Clean, Your Song, Take Me Home Tonight, I Can't Make You Love Me, This Everyday Love, Jump Around, NC Raise Up, Grey Street, Die Without You, Africa

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1742c | 1 CD | $14.98 | A Cappella


Various Artists : Best Of Collegiate A Cappella '99 : 1 CD

Various Artists : Best Of Collegiate A Cappella '99

This highly-popular series has become a yearly event to satisfy the appetites of collegiate music lovers, and it's a great way to expose oneself to the up-and-coming talent proliferating at our nation's higher institutions. Whether the Stanford Counterpoints "Don't Speak," the Tufts Amalgamates "I Don't Want to Wait" or "Don't Stand So Close To Me" by UPenn Off The Beat, the selections offer a tuneful portion of what's hip now in current or retro pop, and the quality is entirely professional. Over half the tracks were CARA nominated, a surefire harbinger of success. Many members of professional and semi-professional contemporary vocal bands started out in these very ensembles, so heads up!

Songlist: Don't Stand So Close To Me, You're All I Need To Get By, Ghost Train, You Make Me Wanna, Bethlehem, Crazy Love, Semi-Charmed Life, Fear, I Can't Make You love Me, Sour Times, Angel, How Deep Is Your Love?, I Don't Want To Wait, Verdi Cries, Stupid Girl, Don't Speak, Pretty Good Year, Fame, Stay

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1699c | 1 CD | $13.98 | A Cappella


Nancy Wilson : Great Women Singers of the 20th Century : Solo : DVD : 032031298491 : KUL2984DVD

Nancy Wilson : Great Women Singers of the 20th Century

Nancy Wilson, a beautiful woman who is also an actress of note, has been seen in performance many times. However, this 1993 evening of singing at the famed Blues Alley in Washington D.C. was originally intended for A&E's "Biography" but was never released. It is a definitive evening of Nancy's, during which she performs many of her well known songs including her Grammy Award winning "How Glad I Am, "I Have Never Been To Me," and the classic "Guess Who I Saw Today?" This concert presents Nancy Wilson at her memorable best. Nancy has never allowed herself to be classified as just a jazz singer. She has worked hard to offer her audience a wide spectrum of songs that include both jazz and the best of American popular music. She has successfully recorded over 40 albums and CDs for both the Capitol and Columbia labels. In 1991 she recorded a very successful CD "With My Lover Beside Me" with Barry Manilow, who wrote music to unpublished lyrics of Johnny Mercer, for her to record, exclusively.

Songlist: Lover, More Love, Sweet Pumpkin, I Can't Make You Love Me, Too Close for Comfort, Guess Who I Saw Today?, And When October Goes, You're Just Too Good to Be True, Please Save Your Love for Me, How Glad I Am, When Did You Leave Heaven?, I Have Never Been to Me, Face It Girl, It's Over, The Masquerade Is Over, You Can Have Him, Tonight I Gave the Greatest Performance of My Life

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Voicing: Solo | Performed by Nancy Wilson | 5890dvd | DVD | $19.95


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I Can't Make You Love Me : SSAA : Deke Sharon : Bonnie Raitt : DVD : 08751696 : 884088495145

Deke Sharon : I Can't Make You Love Me

With rich harmonies, delicate arpeggiations and a soaring, heartfelt melody, this showstopping Bonnie Raitt ballad makes a perfect penultimate number.

Arranger: Deke Sharon Performed By: Bonnie Raitt

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Voicing: SSAA | Sheet Music | $1.90 | A Cappella |
(Minimum order 4 copies)
| 08751696 | Digital Version Available

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