Artist: Mireille & Jean Sablon
Author: Jean Nohain/Mireille
Label: Pathé
Year: 1935
With spoken word intro, crooner-style. Here it's the girl leaving.
Covers:
Marie Dubas [as Monsieur est parti en voyage, same melody, different lyrics, more in line with Miss Otis Regrets (see there)]
Edith Piaf [idem]
Françoise Hardy [duet with her husband Jacques Dutronc, with their son Thomas on guitar; here it's the man leaving]
Later Mireille started up the Petit Conservatoire de la Chanson, attended by Françoise Hardy as one of her pupils (along with Colette Magny, Pierre Vassiliu, Alain Souchon and Yves Duteil).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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Belgium