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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 ...
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, original release date: 26 January 1999; Montmartre Sur Seine (soundtrack import), original release date: 19 September 2000; Éternelle: The Best Of (29 January 2002) Love and Passion (boxed set), original release date: 8 April 2002; The Very Best of Édith Piaf (import), original release date: 29 October 2002
In connection with the film about Edith Piaf, La Vie en Rose (2007), Moustaki talked in an interview with Le Nouvel Observateur (14 February 2007) about "Milord": "It was a song I had left in draft form until one day I found the scribbled sheet next to the typewriter Piaf had given me. I resumed to work with it.
Louis Guglielmi (3 April 1916 – 4 April 1991), known by his pen name Louiguy (French pronunciation:), was a Spanish-born French musician of Italian descent. He wrote the melody for Édith Piaf's lyrics of "La Vie en Rose" and the Latin jazz composition "Cerisier rose et pommier blanc", a popular song written in 1950, made famous in English as "Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)", which ...
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.
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.
Edith Piaf, also known as La Vie en Rose, is a 10-inch long-playing album from Édith Piaf that was released in 1953 on the Columbia label (33 FS 1008). [1] [2] The web site Best Ever Albums ranks it as Piaf's best. [3] The album collected songs that had previously been released as singles on 78s.