WHEN THE SUN SAYS GOODNIGHT TO THE MOUNTAIN

Created on 17/03/2009
Latest update on 18/08/2025

Artist: Roy Fox
Author: Harry Pease/Larry Vincent
Label: HMV
Year: 1936

In London. Vocals: Sid Buckman & Barry Gray. Starts like When It's Lamplighting Time In The Valley; see there.

Covers:

1936:

Geraldo & his Gaucho Tango Orch. [vocal: Monte Rey]

1945:

Annette & Carmen Richer [as Bonjour mon soleil; from Quebec for Starr; translated by both sisters and their pianist Edmond Moreau]

1956:

Lévis Bouliane [also from Quebec, the first as Quand le soleil dit bonjour aux montagnes]

1956:

Bob Regan & his Californian Pioneers [the first as The French Song, for Rodeo; vocal: his wife Lucille Starr]

1964:

Lucille Starr [idem; n°1 B & NL]

1964:

Marion Worth [idem; top 30 C&W]

1964:

Corry Brokken [as Gib mir die Hand]

1965:

Dalida [as Le Soleil et la montagne]

1965:

Anneke Grönloh [as Schemering (Wanneer De Zon Verkleurt Tot Oranje); NL lyrics: Lodewijk Post]

1967:

Sandpipers [as The French Song]

1974:

Mieke [as Visserslied; lyrics: Pierre Kartner, probably inspiring him to write his big hit In 't Kleine Café Aan De Haven! (see there)]

1981:

Hepie & Hepie [as Diep In Mijn Hart]

1984:

Jimmy C. Newman [as The French Song]

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