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French. Released. 1960. Composer (s) Charles Dumont. Lyricist (s) Michel Vaucaire. " Non, je ne regrette rien " ( pronounced [nɔ̃ ʒə nə ʁəɡʁɛt ʁjɛ̃] 'No, I do not regret anything') is a French song composed in 1956 by Charles Dumont, with lyrics by Michel Vaucaire. Édith Piaf 's 1960 recording spent seven weeks atop the French ...
La Mer (song) "Seul... Depuis Toujours". " 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 ...
Hymne à l'amour ( French pronunciation: [imn a lamuʁ] ), or Hymn to Love, is a 1949 French song with words by Édith Piaf and music by Marguerite Monnot. It was first sung by Piaf that year and recorded by her in the 1950s for Columbia records. Piaf sang it in the 1951 French musical comedy film Paris chante toujours ( Paris still sings ).
La Marseillaise. " La Marseillaise " [ a] is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled " Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin " [ b] ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine ").
Sur le Pont d'Avignon. " Sur le pont d'Avignon " ( pronounced [syʁ lə pɔ̃ daviɲɔ̃]) ("On the Bridge of Avignon") is a French song about a dance performed on the Pont d'Avignon (officially Pont Saint-Bénézet) that dates back to the 15th century. The dance actually took place under the bridge and not on the bridge ( sous le Pont d ...
The Chanson de l'Oignon ( French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃sɔ̃ də lɔɲɔ̃]; "Song of the Onion") is a French marching song from around 1800 but the melody can be found earlier in Ettiene Nicolas Mehul ’s overture to La chasse de Juene Henri in 1797. According to legend, it originated among the Old Guard Grenadiers of Napoleon 's Imperial Guard.
Comme d'habitude. " 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 [ fr] . In 1969 Paul Anka gave it new lyrics to create the song "My Way", Frank Sinatra 's ...
The song was published for the first time in 1862 by Jean-Romain Grosjean and Paul Webster, organist of the Cathedral of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, in a collection of carols entitled Airs des Noëls lorrains. The text of the carol was published for the first time in a collection of ancient carols, published in either 1875 or 1876 by Dom G. Legeay. [1]