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Can't Help Falling in Love is een nummer van de Amerikaanse zanger Elvis Presley. Het nummer verscheen op de soundtrack van zijn film Blue Hawaii uit 1961. Op 1 oktober van dat jaar werd het nummer uitgebracht als de enige single van het album. Het nummer is gecoverd door veel artiesten, waaronder UB40 in 1993, die er onder meer in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, de Verenigde Staten en Nederland een nummer 1-hit mee scoorden.

"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. The melody is based on "Plaisir d'amour", 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" and "sin" rather than words rhyming with "you".

Recorded by singer and actor Elvis Presley, it was part of the album, 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. In the 1970s, the song was recorded by Marty Robbins, Bob Dylan, The Stylistics, Shirley Bassey, and Engelbert Humperdinck.

Through the decades, European artists, including Swedish 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 a movie about Elvis Presley.

This song was ranked one of the greatest songs of all-time by Rolling Stone Magazine. In 2012 it was ranked at #403.