"Tombe la neige" (

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: "The snow falls") is a

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song written and sung by Belgian-Italian singer

Salvatore Adamo Salvatore Adamo (born November 1, 1943) is a Belgian-Italian musician, singer and composer, who is known for his romantic ballads. Adamo was born in Comiso, Sicily, Italy, and has lived in Belgium since the age of three, which is why he has dual ...

. The song was released in 1963 and became an international hit and one of his best-known songs.

Releases

;45 rpm (France) *A-side: Tombe la neige (2:55) *B-side: Car je veux (2:40) ;EP (France) *A1: Tombe la neige (2:55) *A2: J'ai raté le coche (2:35) *B1: Car je veux (2:40) *B2: Le train va (2:50) ;Adamo Language versions Adamo also released versions in many languages that contributed to the propagation of the song worldwide: *German: "Grau zieht der Nebel" *Italian: "Cade la neve" *Japanese: "Yuki ga Furu" (雪が降る) *Spanish: "Cae la nieve" *Brazilian: "Cai a neve" *Turkish: "Her yerde kar var" *Azeri: "Gar yaqir" *Persian: "برف می‌بارد" *Vietnamese: "Tuyết rơi" *Russian: Идёт снег *Albanian: Bie Dëborë

Covers

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/ref> *In 1969, Danièle Vidal recorded it on her album ''L'amour est bleu'' *

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made an instrumental version in 1971 on an album also entitled ''Tombe la neige'' *In 2008, Adamo recorded it as a duo with

Laurent Voulzy Lucien Voulzy (, born 18 December 1948), better known as Laurent Voulzy (), is a French singer-songwriter, composer and musician. Life and career Voulzy was born in Paris, France. He originally led the English-pop-influenced Le Temple de Vénus ...

on the album ''Le bal des gens bien'' ;Languages *In 1965, Croatian mezzosoprano Anica Zubović recorded ''Pada sneg'', with lyrics adapted into Serbocroatian by Ildi Ivanji and in arrangement by Aleksandar Subota, as a part of EP ''Ivan Ivanović''. *In 1965, Turkish singer Ajda Pekkan had her first recording, "Her Yerde Kar Var", an arrangement of Salvatore Adamo's "Tombe la Neige" by Fecri Ebcioğlu. *In Germany,

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had a hit with the German version "Grau zieht der Nebel" *In 1968,

Emil Gorovets Rahmil "Emil" Yacovlevich Gorovets (in Russian Рахмиль Яковлевич Горовец; 10 June 1923, in Haisyn, Ukraine – 17 August 2001, in New York) was a famous Soviet Ukrainian singer of Jewish origin, Gorovets standing for Hor ...

recorded it in Russian as "Padaet sneg" (in

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И падает снег) on his album ''Vdali'' *In 1974, Chinese Mandarin version under the title of "誰會想念我" (Who Will Think Of Me) was covered by both Hong Kong singer

Paula Tsui Paula Tsui Siu Fung is a Cantopop singer in Hong Kong, with a career spanning over 50 years. She was affiliated with the TVB television station until the mid-1990s and has performed for Asia Television on several occasions since 1995. Person ...

(徐小鳳) &

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singer 南虹 (Nam Hong). In 1977, another Hong Kong singer Amina (阿美娜) recorded a Japanese & Chinese Mandarin crossover version, titled "落雪" (The Falling Snow) of which the Japanese lyrics part is same as the version of the "Yuki ga Furu" (雪が降る). Also, Hong Kong entertainer Liza Wang (汪明荃) did record a

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version, titled "踏遍霜雪地" (Stepping Through The Snowy Land) in the same year. In 1979, another

version with the name of "把握今天" (Get Hold Of Today) was recorded by Hong Kong singer May Cheng (鄭寶雯). *In 2010, Adamo recorded it as a duet with Mario Barravecchia in Italian based on Adamo's Italian rendition "Cade la neve". It appears in a collection album ''Intimo - Le più belle canzoni italiane'' *In 2018 the character 'Adamo' in the movie Patser (gangsta in english) made by Adil El Arbi and Billal Fallah was related to "Tombe la neige" and the actor was also from Belgian-Italian origin despite he played a moroccan-italian gangster . *In 2011, the Turkish-Albanian pop singer

Candan Erçetin Candan Erçetin (; born 10 February 1961) is a Turkish singer-songwriter. Over the twenty five years of her singing career, she has been recognized for preparing and singing songs about human life. Despite the fact that she made her albums with ...

sang her song "Her Yerde Kar Var" in Turkish and French.

References

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