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The Misadventure of a French Gentleman was not the last movie made by Alberts Frères to generate headlines. On Friday, 13 September 1907, they had filmed a practical joke in Maastricht , in which an actor by the name of Tünnes (from the local Schmidt theater), pulling a donkey by a rope, took off from the local market carrying a suckling pig ...
Performed in French, the song is a positive one, dealing with the pleasure to be had in life. [ 2 ] Kim, herself of Italian descent, also recorded it in Italian –with the same title as the original French, "J'aime la vie"–, and English –in two versions, the first "Crazy of Life", the second with the same title as the original French, "J ...
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".
The Apartment (French: L'Appartement) is a 1996 French drama film written and directed by Gilles Mimouni, and starring Romane Bohringer, Vincent Cassel, Jean-Philippe Écoffey and Monica Bellucci. Plot
Still a bilingual song, "Hashem Melech" now featured Hebrew and English lyrics instead. Elbaz' original French lyrics were dropped in favor of English in the new version, but his Hebrew lyrics were retained for the new version. Nissim's rap segments were all in English. The popularity of the second version far exceeded that of the first.
J'attendrai" (French for "I will wait" [1]) is a popular French song first recorded by Rina Ketty in 1938. It became the big French song during World War II ; a counterpart to Lale Andersen 's " Lili Marleen " in Germany and Vera Lynn 's " We'll Meet Again " in Britain.
"Auprès de ma blonde" (French for "Next to My Girl") or "Le Prisonnier de Hollande" ("The Prisoner of Holland") is a popular chanson dating to the 17th century. The song tells the story of a woman who laments to the birds in her father's garden that her husband is a prisoner in Holland.
"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. When Trenet's version was released in 1946, it became an unexpected hit and has remained a chanson classic and jazz standard ever since.