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"La Mer" ("The Sea") is a song by the French composer, lyricist, singer and showman Charles Trenet. The song was first recorded by the French singer Roland Gerbeau in 1945. The song was first recorded by the French singer Roland Gerbeau in 1945.
While it's nice to have the original French lyrics, wouldn't also be good to have an English translation, as this is English-language Wikipedia and it would be nice to know what the lyrics mean? And don't direct me to the English-language version of this song, because those lyrics are not a direct translation. 98.221.124.80 10:32, 30 April 2010 ...
"Beyond the Sea" is the English-language version of the French song "La Mer" by Charles Trenet, popularized by Bobby Darin in 1959. While the French original was an ode to the sea, Jack Lawrence – who composed the English lyrics – turned it into a love song. [1]
The piece is French, and its title is properly capitalized according to protocol. It's "La mer". TheScotch 00:39, 3 August 2022 (UTC) I just wanted to add that according to contemporary French capitalization rules, it would be "La Mer", because "Mer" is the main substantive.
Afterwards the vision is lost and the spell breaks. The speaker, still a boat, wishes for death (Ô que ma quille éclate! Ô que j'aille à la mer! "O that my keel would break! O that I would go to the sea!" [5]). The grandiose aspirations have deceived, leaving exhaustion and the sense of imprisonment.
"À la Bastille" by Aristide Bruant "À la Paris" by Rega Dance Orchestra (featuring the early jazz musician Nathan Glantz) "À la Parisienne (Love Theme of Paris)" by Dick Jacobs and his Orchestra "À la Pigalle" by Robb Johnson "À la Place Maubert" by Aristide Bruant "À la Roquette" by Aristide Bruant "À la Seine" by Léo Ferré
La mer may refer to: La mer, an orchestral composition by Claude Debussy "La Mer" (song), a 1946 song by Charles Trenet; La Mer (horse), a champion racehorse; La Mer, an 1895 film directed by Louis Lumière; La Mer, a brand of cosmetics owned by the Estée Lauder Companies "La Mer", a song on The Fragile (Nine Inch Nails album)
La mer was the second of Debussy's three orchestral works in three sections, the other being Nocturnes (1892–1899) and Images pour orchestre (1905–1912). The first, the Nocturnes, premiered in Paris in 1901 and though it had not made any great impact on the public, it was well-reviewed by musicians including Paul Dukas, Alfred Bruneau and Pierre de Bréville.