Editing Can't Help Falling in Love (section)

{{short description|1961 single by Elvis Presley}}
{{For|the 2017 film|Can't Help Falling in Love (film)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2012}}
{{Infobox song
| name          = Can't Help Falling in Love
| cover         = Can't Help Falling in Love by Elvis Presley US picture sleeve.png
| alt           = 
| caption       = One of original 1961 North American variants of the standard artwork
| type          = single
| artist        = [[Elvis Presley]]
| album         = [[Blue Hawaii (soundtrack)|Blue Hawaii]]
| B-side        = "[[Rock-A-Hula Baby]]"
| released      = November 21, 1961
| recorded      = March 23, 1961
| studio        = [[Radio Recorders]], [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]
| genre         = 
* [[Pop music|Pop]]<ref name="Breihan 2022">{{cite web|first= Tom |last= Breihan |title= The Number Ones: UB40's "(I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You|website= [[Stereogum]] |date= February 11, 2022|url= https://www.stereogum.com/2175090/the-number-ones-ub40s-i-cant-help-falling-in-love-with-you/columns/the-number-ones/|accessdate= November 17, 2024}}</ref>
* [[easy listening]]<ref name="Breihan 2022"/>
| length        = {{Duration|m=2|s=59}}
| label         = [[RCA Records|RCA Victor]]
| writer        = {{hlist|[[Hugo Peretti]]|[[Luigi Creatore]]|[[George David Weiss]]<ref name="500 Number One Hits">{{cite book
| first= Jo
| last= Rice
| year= 1982
| title= The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits
| edition= 1st
| publisher= Guinness Superlatives Ltd 
| location= Enfield, Middlesex
| page= 64
| isbn= 0-85112-250-7}}</ref>}}
| producer      = Elvis Presley (Joseph Lilley for Paramount Pictures)<ref>Elvis Presley - A Life in Music by Ernst Jorgensen p.151-152</ref>
| prev_title    = [[Little Sister (Elvis Presley song)|Little Sister]]
| prev_year     = 1961
| title2        = [[Rock-A-Hula Baby]]
| next_title    = [[Good Luck Charm]]
| next_title2   = [[Anything That's Part of You]]
| next_year     = 1962
}}

"'''Can't Help Falling in Love'''" is a song written by [[Hugo Peretti]], [[Luigi Creatore]], and [[George David Weiss]] and published by Gladys Music, Inc.<ref name="500 Number One Hits"/> The melody is based on "[[Plaisir d'amour]]",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1159 |title=Can't Help Falling In Love by Elvis Presley Songfacts |publisher=Songfacts.com |access-date=March 31, 2014 |archive-date=April 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418123420/https://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1159 |url-status=live }}</ref> a popular French love song composed in 1784 by [[Jean-Paul-Égide Martini]]. The song was initially written from the perspective of a woman as "Can't Help Falling in Love with Him", which explains the first and third line ending on "in" rather than words rhyming with "you".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IMdu3MS74V0C&pg=PT214|title=''Songwriting for Dummies''|first=Jim|last=Peterik|publisher=Wiley|date=2010|isbn=9780470890417|access-date=February 17, 2019|archive-date=September 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230905082417/https://books.google.com/books?id=IMdu3MS74V0C&pg=PT214|url-status=live}}</ref>

Recorded by singer and actor [[Elvis Presley]], it was part of the album, ''[[Blue Hawaii (soundtrack)|Blue Hawaii]]'' (1961), the soundtrack to the movie ''[[Blue Hawaii]].'' The song was recorded subsequently in the 1960s by [[Perry Como]], the [[Lennon Sisters]], [[Doris Day]], [[Patti Page]], [[Andy Williams]], [[Al Martino]] and [[Keely Smith]].<ref name = Willigger-A001>{{Cite web |last=Willman |first=Chris |date=2022-05-02 |title=Kacey Musgraves Is Covering 'Can't Help Falling in Love' for 'Elvis' Film Soundtrack |url=https://variety.com/2022/music/news/kacey-musgraves-elvis-soundtrack-cover-cant-help-falling-in-love-met-gala-baz-luhrmann-1235256296/ |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> In the 1970s, the song was recorded by [[Marty Robbins]], [[Bob Dylan]], [[The Stylistics]], [[Shirley Bassey]], and [[Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]].<ref>[https://secondhandsongs.com/work/175/versions#nav-entity Versions of "Can't Help Falling in Love". Second Hand Songs. Retrieved 20 October 2023.]</ref>

Through the decades, European artists, including Swedish [[Pop music|pop]] group [[A-Teens]], and British [[reggae]] and pop group [[UB40]], recorded their own versions. Newer versions continue to be recorded by newer artists, such as [[Kacey Musgraves]] who recorded a version in 2022 for [[Elvis (soundtrack)|a movie about Elvis Presley]].<ref name = Willigger-A001></ref>

This song was ranked one of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|the greatest songs of all-time]] by ''[[Rolling Stone Magazine]]''. In 2012 it was ranked at #403.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=2003-12-11|title=500 Greatest Songs of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-151127/|access-date=2021-06-13|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref>