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"Ne t'enfuis pas" is a song written and recorded by Kate Bush. An entirely French-language track, it was released in July 1983 in France and Canada. [2] The song was originally released as the B-side of the singles "There Goes a Tenner" in the UK and Ireland, and "Suspended in Gaffa" in continental Europe. On those singles, the title was ...
Are Ye Right There Michael is a song by the 19th-century and early 20th-century Irish composer and musician Percy French, parodying the state of the West Clare Railway system in rural County Clare. It was inspired by an actual train journey in 1896.
Chevalier performed the song in his first American movie, Innocents of Paris (1928), a musical comedy directed by Richard Wallace and starring Sylvia Beecher. He sang it again in the 1935 movie Folies Bergère de Paris (both in the American version directed by Roy Del Ruth and the French version directed by Marcel Achard [note 1]).
It was used extensively in the François Truffaut film Stolen Kisses (1968), its French title, Baisers volés, having been taken from the song's lyrics. The song was also used in the films "Iris" (2001), "Something's Gotta Give" (2003), and "Ces amours-là" (2010). A performance of the song is featured in the film "Une jeune fille qui va bien ...
It is also known with the lyrics "le roi, la reine et le petit prince" (the king, the queen, and the little prince) and "Puisque c'est comme ça" rather than "Puisque c'est ainsi" (both "because it's like this" or "since this is how it is"). This song is used to teach the days of the week to children in French.
"Entre Nous" ("Between Us" in French) is the fourth track on the 1980 album Permanent Waves by progressive rock band Rush. It was also released as a single. The song appeared on the concert album Snakes & Arrows Live, released on April 15, 2008. Rolling Stone magazine called the song a "straight-ahead rocker with an artfully segued acoustic ...
"Louise" is a song written by Leo Robin and Richard A. Whiting for the 1929 film Innocents of Paris, where it was performed by Maurice Chevalier. [2] [3] The song was Chevalier's first hit in the United States, and was among the best selling records for 10 weeks in the summer of 1929. [4]
[9] La Carmagnole, and revolutionary song in general, was viewed as an important part of the new French Republic, and of being a Frenchman. La Carmagnole was particularly popular because, like the song Ah! ça ira ("It'll do", "Everything will be OK"), it contained simple lyrics that illiterate people could easily learn and understand, and ...