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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.
"La Mer" is Trenet's best-known work outside the French-speaking world, with more than 400 recorded versions. The tune, given unrelated English words and the title "Beyond the Sea" (or sometimes "Sailing"), was a hit for Bobby Darin in the early 1960s, and George Benson in the mid-1980s.
"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]
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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.
"Face à la mer" (French: "Facing the Sea") is the name of a 2004 song recorded as a duet by singers Calogero and Passi. It was the second single from Calogero's third studio album, 3, on which it features as third track. It achieved success in the countries in which it was released, becoming to date Calogero's most successful single on the charts.
A French-language film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, Le Silence de la mer, was released in 1949. A second English-language TV adaptation was broadcast by the BBC in 1981, and a stage version by John Crowther was performed by The Heywood Society in the theatre at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1985, under the title Talking in the Night. [4]
"Il était un petit navire" (pronounced [il‿etɛt‿œ̃ pət'i nav'iʁ], lit. ' There was a little ship ') is a traditional French song that is now considered a children's song, despite its macabre tone.