Artist: Jacques Brel
Author: Jacques Brel
Label: Philips
Year: 1959
B-side of La Valse a mille temps. With François Rauber's orchestra and Janine De Waleyne on ondes Martenot. Brel used that same early French electronic devise in Le Plat pays and La Fanette.
Covers:
Simone Langlois [also on Philips; cut six other Brel compositions]
Gino Paoli [as Non Andare Via]
Marlène Dietrich [as Bitte, geh' nicht fort]
Rod McKuen [as If You Go Away; his own translation on RCA lp The Loner]
Damita Jo [idem]
Dusty Springfield [idem]
Glen Campbell [as If You Go Away]
Scott Walker [idem]
Tom Jones [idem]
Frank Sinatra [idem]
Liesbeth List [as Laat Me Niet Alleen and as Bitte geh' nicht Fort]
Matt Monro [as No Me Dejes]
Will Ferdy [idem]
Patty Pravo [as Non Andare Via, hit It]
Neil Diamond [as If You Go Away]
Freda Payne [idem]
Terry Jacks [idem, Top 10 hit UK, NL & B]
Nana Mouskouri [idem]
Marc & The Mambas [idem; in '89 again as Marc Almond]
Rob de Nijs [as Laat Me Niet Alleen]
Momus [as Don't Leave]
Frank Dingenen [as Ne Me Kittel Pas]
Patricia Kaas [as If You Go Away]
Cyndi Lauper [idem]
Barbra Streisand [idem]
Holly Cole [as If You Go Away]
Brigitte Kaandorp [as Lieve Koningin; for Queen Beatrix]
U2 [live while all 130 names of the terrorist's victims in Paris on November 13 were shown on their overhead screen]
Thomas Dutronc [as If You Go Away, with Larry Gold]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)