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Jimmy Fallon and Kevin Bacon show us the original version of Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin” in another “First Drafts of Rock” bit on The Tonight Show.
While this is just a spoof, the actual story of how Free Fallin’ came to be is kind of interesting. In an article from Ultimateclassicrock.com, Tom Petty tells the story:
“Honestly, I thought I was just amusing Jeff but then I got to the chorus of the song and he leaned over to me and said the word, ‘free falling.’ And I went to sing that and he said, ‘No, take your voice up and see how that feels,’” Petty recalled earlier this year. “So I took my voice up an octave or two, but I couldn’t get the whole word in. So I sang ‘freeee,’ then ‘free falling.’ And we both knew at that moment that I’d hit on something pretty good. It was that fast.”
