QUAND MADELON

Created on 31/08/2008
Latest update on 11/04/2024

Artist: Bach
Author: Louis Bousquet/Camille Robert
Year: 1913

Pre war 'Tourlourou' (comic) in Paris. His real name was Charles-Joseph Pasquier. No success. Wrong time, wrong place. That changed two years later, when French troops had to be distracted behind the trenches.

Covers:

1915:

Polin [as La Madelon; French hit in the trenches]

1917:

Marcelly [first recording (Pathé)]

1918:

Lucien Boyer [as La Madelon de la victoire]

1918:

Arthur Fields [as I'll Be True To The Whole Regiment]

1918:

Albert Bol [as Pieternel]

1919:

Albert Bol [NL version]

1939:

Lucienne Boyer [as Victoire, la fille de Madelon]

1942:

Maurice Chevalier

1944:

Michele France [as La Madelon de la délivrance]

1949:

Willie The Lion Smith

1955:

Line Renaud [in film Le Madelon]

1963:

Johnny Hoes [as Oh, Madelein]

1976:

Manhattan Transfer

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