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"La Mer" ("The Sea") is a song by the French composer, lyricist, singer and showman Charles Trenet. The song was first recorded by the French singer Roland Gerbeau in 1945. When Trenet's version was released in 1946, it became an unexpected hit and has remained a chanson classic and jazz standard ever since.
Mar 31, 2022 · The song “La Mer” (meaning: the sea) is the most successful song of French singer Charles Trenet (1913 – 2001). Recorded in 1946 just after World War II, it is the most famous French songs of all time after Edith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose” .
Oct 3, 2020 · The mid-1940s tunes “La Vie En Rose” and “La Mer” are sometimes cited as the two most successful international song hits to come from France. Here the composer sings his famous French ...
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Feb 4, 2010 · Charles Trenet chante La mer, version 1968
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Jan 11, 2011 · The source for Bobby Darin's 1960 hit Beyond the Sea was a song by the archetypal French chansonnier Charles Trenet, La Mer, written in 1945.
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- Trenet observed the landscape and was inspired to write a song entitled "La Mer". - The melody of "La Mer" comes from a 1938 song called "Heart and Soul". - Trenet did not think the song was very good and did not record it immediately.
Trenet composed the tune for “La Mer” in 1943 while riding on a train with Léo Chauliac and passing the Étang de Thau, a lagoon between Montpellier and Perpignan. Then he combined the melody with lyrics he had written much earlier as a poem when he was 16 years old.
