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He was particularly well known for his work on the Disney films Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland, and for the mostly-English lyrics [2] [3] [4] through which Édith Piaf's signature song "La Vie en rose" gained much of its familiarity among native speakers of English. David was the elder brother of American lyricist and songwriter Hal David. [1]
La Vie en rose" was the song that made Piaf internationally famous, its lyrics expressing the joy of finding true love and appealing to those who had endured the hardships of World War II. [8] "La Vie en rose" was released on a 10-inch single in 1947 by Columbia Records, a division of EMI, with "Un refrain courait dans la rue" making the B-side ...
Piaf's English version is used in Luc Besson's Dogman. The song features prominently in the biographic movie La Vie en Rose, which tells the story of Édith Piaf (portrayed by French actress Marion Cotillard) A Spanish version of the song performed by Javiera Mena, plays during the end credits of the 2012 Chilean film Young and Wild.
The following is a list of English-language pop songs based on French-language songs. The songs here were originally written and performed in the French language. Later, new, English-language lyrics were set to the same melody as the original song. Songs are arranged in alphabetical order, omitting the articles "a" and "the".
" Hymne à l'amour" (French pronunciation: [imn a lamuʁ]); French for "Hymn to Love") is a 1949 French song with lyrics by Édith Piaf and music by Marguerite Monnot. It was first sung by Piaf that year and recorded by her in 1950 for Columbia records. Piaf sang it in the 1951 French musical comedy film Paris chante toujours (Paris still sings ...
The night closed out with a moving performance from contestant Xochitl Gomez and her partner, Val Chmerkovskiy, who danced the waltz to Lady Gaga's rendition of "La Vie En Rose" from A Star Is Born.
Another critic, Martin Roberts, wrote that the set "shows la Piaf in all of her many moods which range from extreme happiness to extreme grief, neither of which is vulgarly displayed." [ 2 ] Critic Herbert Kennedy Jr. opined: "There is a distressing uniformity both to the songs and the half-plaintive way they are sung.
La Vie en Rose (literally Life in pink, French pronunciation: [la vi ɑ̃ ʁoz]; [note 1] French: La Môme) [note 2] [7] is a 2007 biographical musical film about the life of French singer Édith Piaf, co-written and directed by Olivier Dahan, and starring Marion Cotillard as Piaf. The UK and US title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature ...