"Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?" (, ''What Remains of Our Loves?'') is a French
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song, with music by
Léo Chauliac
Léo Chauliac, real name Léon Chauliac (6 February 1913 – 27 October 1977), was a French jazz pianist, composer and conductor.
A jazz pianist in the 1930s, Léo Chauliac was the accompanist of Charles Trenet from 1941 to 1943, a singer for wh ...
and
Charles Trenet
Louis Charles Augustin Georges Trenet (; 18 May 1913 – 19 February 2001) was a renowned French singer-songwriter who composed both the music and the lyrics to nearly a thousand songs over a career that lasted more than 60 years. These include ...
and lyrics by Charles Trenet. A version of the song with English lyrics entitled "I Wish You Love" is recognizable by the opening line "I wish you bluebirds, in the spring".
History
This song was first recorded by the French female singer
Lucienne Boyer
Lucienne Boyer (18 August 1901 – 6 December 1983) was a French diseuseMansfield News Journal 9 November 1934 pg. 20 and singer, best known for her song " Parlez-moi d'amour". Her impresario was Bruno Coquatrix.
Early career
Born as Émilienne-H ...
in
1942
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,
Columbia Records: BF 68). Second recorded by the French
crooner
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Roland Gerbeau in February
1943
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(78 rpm,
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: 524.830). Charles Trenet recorded his own version in July 1943 (78 rpm Columbia Records: DF 3116).
"I Wish You Love"
The song is best known to
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-speaking audiences as "I Wish You Love", with new lyrics by American composer and lyricist, Albert Askew Beach (1924-1997):
"I Wish You Love" was introduced in
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by
Keely Smith as the title cut of her solo debut album, ''
I Wish You Love'', and was one of Smith's
signature songs. Smith's debut album otherwise consisted of
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s. She later recalled: "
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we sat down to select the songs
he record producerVoyle Gilmore
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...played a bunch of standards
hen
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said: 'I want to play you a really pretty French song
..it won't mean nothing and you won't do it in the album but I just thought I'd play it for you' and he played 'I Wish You Love'. So, at the end of him playing all these songs
..I said: 'Babe, I'll sing any 11 songs y'all want me to but I want to sing 'I Wish You Love'."
Other recordings
It has since become a
musical standard, with many other recordings:
*
Gloria Lynne
Gloria Lynne (born Gloria Wilson; November 23, 1929 – October 15, 2013), also known as Gloria Alleyne, was an American jazz vocalist with a recording career spanning from 1958 to 2007.
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Lynne was born in Harlem in 1929 to John and Mary W ...
's 1963 recording for the Everest label reached No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964 and the top ten on the Easy Listening chart, and #3 on Cashbox Magazine's R&B chart (Billboard did not publish standard R&B listings during 1964).
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Dalida
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recorded the song in 1972.
*Rony Verbiest recorded the song in 2001.
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version entitled "Che cosa resta" was recorded by
Franco Battiato
Francesco "Franco" Battiato (; 23 March 1945 – 18 May 2021) was an Italian musician, singer, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esotericism, esoteric, philosophy, philosophica ...
in 1999.
*An
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version entitled "Shou Byeb'a" was recorded by
Carla Chamoun in 2020.
Other notable recordings
Use in film
The song was heard in several films:
*It was used extensively in the
François Truffaut film ''
Stolen Kisses
''Stolen Kisses'' (french: Baisers volés) is a 1968 French romantic comedy-drama film directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig and Claude Jade. It continues the story of the character Antoine Doinel, whom Tr ...
'' (1968), its French title, ''Baisers volés'', having been taken from the song's lyrics.
*The song was also used in the films "
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" (2001), "
Something's Gotta Give" (2003), and "
Ces amours-là" (2010).
References
External links
Song lyric
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1940s jazz standards
1943 songs
Songs written by Charles Trenet
Lucienne Boyer songs
Charles Trenet songs
French songs
Pop standards