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:
Michel Louvain [Canadian as Je te perds]
Dalida [as Grau war der Ozean and as Je te perds in '66, re-translation: Ralph Bernet]
Brenda Lee [top 10 hit US & UK as Losing You; English lyrics: Carl Sigman]
Martin Denny [idem]
Al Martino [idem]
Lale Andersen [as Grau war der Ozean]
Maria Candido [as Un Ange, new lyrics by Pierre Havet]
Colette Deréal [als Un Ange est venu]
Doris Day [as Losing You]
Lynne Fletcher [idem; hit Australia]
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.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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