Artist: Marianne Michel
Author: Louiguy/Edith Piaf
Label: Odéon
Year: 1945
Friend of Piaf with Jean Faustin's orch.; well received version, encouraging la Môme to cut her own version.
Covers:
Dick Jones [as You're Too Dangerous Cherie; vocal: Buddy Clark]
Rita Williams [as Take Me To Your Heart Again]
Gracie Fields [English version but using the original title]
Bob Scholte [as Mijn Schoonste Roos]
Dean Martin [as You're Too Dangerous Cherie]
Conny Stuart [as Les Filles en rose]
Grace Jones [Top 5 NL]
Zangeres Zonder Naam [as Mijn Schoonste Roos]
Wendy Van Wanten [as Duizend Regenbogen]
Jenny Arean [as Les Filles en rose]
Alex [as Een Bossie Rooie Rozen]
Preservation Hall Jazz Band [vocal: Angelique Kidjo]
Andrea Bocelli [with Edith Piaf's voice sampled in]
Lady Gaga [in A Star Is Born]
Thomas Dutronc [with Billy Gibbons]
Nick Cave [in TV series The New Look]
Because Piaf failed in her exam for composition, required to become member of SACEM (the French composers society), the music to La Vie en rose (or Les Choses en rose as she called it first) couldn't be credited to her alone. There's this rumour she's been sacked by the Vichy government for a line in Paris Méditerranée ("Il y a des gens bizarres dans les rues et dans les gares"). Anyway, her friend Louiguy (Luis Guglielmi) fell in to finish the job.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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