ALOUETTE
Created on 17/09/2002Latest update on 26/04/2023
Artist: Edouard Le Bel
Author: traditional
Label: Victor
Year: 1906
Canadian tenor with a 19th century ringsong from Quebec, while the melody was part of the Gruuthuse Handschrift, named after Loys van Gruuthuse (who died in Bruges in 1492), along with Egidius, waer bestu bleven, published in 1848-49 by Charles Carton, vicar from Ghent.
Covers:
- 1915:
- 1917:
- 1941:
- 1958:
Bill Haley & His Comets [as Pretty Alouette (Be My Only One)]
- 1961:
Elvis Presley [as Almost Always True in film Blue Hawaii]
- 1962:
- 1963:
Allan Sherman [as Al 'n' Yetta]
- 1968:
Corry Brokken [Dutch version]
- 1980:
- 1994:
- 2010:
Mark Ronson [in Bang Bang Bang]
Gilles Dreu ('68) and Michel Fugain ('97) sing about another lark: Alouette, alouette, with lyrics by Pierre Delanoë, comes from Navidad Nuestra, a christmas cantata from Argentina (1964). See: La Pérégrination and see also: Down By The Stration.
