How to play “I can’t help falling in Love”

"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" 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, and grunge band Pearl Jam has covered it at their concerts. 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 No. 403.

“If you’re into what you’re playing, that’s the most important thing.” – James Hetfield

Cooler Full of Nutcrackers I’ve been writing music and songs for years; here’s a compilation of a few of them. Hope you enjoy my sonic art! Some of the finger-style pieces are decades old while the music that sounds like a piano is more recent. That music was created in Musescore, a notation/teaching/song-writing tool I was introduced to while at Berklee online.  Well worth the time it might cost to investigate it, imho. musescore.org