CONNAIS-TU

Created on 25/11/2004
Latest update on 17/11/2023

Artist: Jean Renard
Author: Jean Renard/Pierre Havet
Label: Polydor
Year: 1960

Working title: Roseline (unrecorded). Wrote in later years for Sylvie Vartan, Johnny Hallyday (Que je t'aime), Mike Brant and Jeane Manson.

Covers:

1961:

Tino Rossi

1961:

Michel Louvain [Canadian as Je te perds]

1961:

Bill Coleman

1962:

Dalida [as Grau war der Ozean and as Je te perds in '66, re-translation: Ralph Bernet]

1963:

Brenda Lee [top 10 hit US & UK as Losing You; English lyrics: Carl Sigman]

1963:

Martin Denny [idem]

1963:

Al Martino [idem]

1963:

Lale Andersen [as Grau war der Ozean]

1963:

Maria Candido [as Un Ange, new lyrics by Pierre Havet]

1963:

Colette Deréal [als Un Ange est venu]

1964:

Doris Day [as Losing You]

1967:

Lynne Fletcher [idem; hit Australia]

2017:

Alison Krauss [idem]

Not the same song as Dusty Springfield's top 10 UK Losing You. Nana Mouskouri's Connais-tu is also a different song.

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