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Comme d'habitude" ([kɔm dabityd(ə)], French for "As usual") is a French song about routine in a relationship falling out of love. It was composed in 1967 by Jacques Revaux, with lyrics by Claude François and Gilles Thibaut . In 1969 Paul Anka gave it new lyrics to create the song "My Way", one of Frank Sinatra's signature songs.
The song concerns a friar's duty to ring the morning bells (matines). Frère Jacques has apparently overslept; it is time to ring the morning bells, and someone wakes him up with this song. [3] The traditional English translation preserves the scansion, but alters the meaning such that Brother John is being awakened by the bells.
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".
"Ah! vous dirai-je, maman " " Ah! vous dirai-je, maman" (French: [a vu diʁeʒ(ə) mamɑ̃], English: Oh!Shall I tell you, Mama) is a popular children's song in France. Since its composition in the 18th century, the melody has been applied to numerous lyrics in multiple languages – the English-language song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is one such example.
Barbra Streisand sings a mixed French/English lyric on her album Love Is the Answer. 2010: Brian Molko performed the song in the "I love EU" concert in Brussels. Kellylee Evans in her album Nina; 2011 Celine Dion performs the song during her Las Vegas residency show, Celine; 2012 The song is featured in the Deluxe Edition of Celine Dion's album ...
Despite the song's French title, it and the rest of the 30-minute film were written in English. The British short subject is a nominal parody of the French feature film Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, to the extent that one can even sing the words "les parapluies de Cherbourg" to the same music. Though it was produced in 1968, the film was ...
Lucienne Boyer was the first singer to record the song in 1930, and she made it very popular in France, America, and the rest of the world. An English translation was written by Bruce Sievier (1894, Paris – 1953) and is known as "Speak to Me of Love" or "Tell Me About Love".
The song was written and recorded in late 1967 for Gainsbourg's then-girlfriend, Brigitte Bardot.After a disappointing date with Bardot, she "phoned and demanded as a penance" the following day [2] [3] that he write, for her, "the most beautiful love song he could imagine"; that night, he wrote "Je t'aime" and "Bonnie and Clyde". [4]