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@alinecunio6864 This song is part of a playlist: Best French Songs 1950s with English Subtitles: See other Best French Songs playlist by different decades with English Subtitles/ Lyrics/Translation: 1910: 1920: 1930: 1940: 1960: 1970: 1980: 1990: 2000: 2010: 2020: Some of the details below are from Wikipedia: HYMNE À L'AMOUR: Hymne à l'amour is a song by Edith Piaf released in 1950, with lyrics written by Edith Piaf and music by Marguerite Monnot1. Having become a classic of French song, it is one of Edith Piaf's greatest hits. Edith Piaf writes Hymne à l'amour thinking of the man she loves, the boxer Marcel Cerdan, whom she met in 1948 in New York, where she was on tour. At the beginning of 1949, the couple bought a house in Boulogne-Billancourt: it was in this interior that she wrote what was to become one of her greatest successes. Edith Piaf sang this song for the first time on September 14, 1949 at the “Versailles“, a cabaret in New York. On October 28, 1949, Marcel Cerdan died in the crash of Air France flight 009, and she symbolically went up the same evening to pay homage to him by singing this song. She will finally record it before May 2, 1950 with Robert Chauvigny's orchestra. In 2016, a survey carried out by the BVA institute designated it as the “favorite French-speaking love song of the French5. » Since then, the song has been covered several times and adapted into various languages, with a few adaptations of the text when the performer is a man, such as Johnny Hallyday (during his Lorada Tour show in 1995-1996), “I would get myself dyed in blonde“ becoming “I will forget brunettes and blondes“ EDITH PIAF: Born in poverty, Edith Piaf was a child whose ancestors belonged to the entertainment world for two generations. She grew up shoved around from mother to father, grand-mother to aunts, and lived among prostitutes who were the ones who showed her some affection. Edith believed her weakness for men came from mixing with prostitutes in her grandmother's brothel. She sang from the age of five in the streets and cabaret. In 1935, Piaf was discovered in the Pigalle area of Paris by nightclub owner Louis Leplée who gave her the nickname that would stay with her for the rest of her life and serve as her stage name, La Môme Piaf (Paris slang meaning “The Little Sparrow“).Leplée taught her the basics of stage presence and told her to wear a black dress, which became her trademark apparel. Leplée ran an intense publicity campaign leading up to her opening night, attracting the presence of many celebrities, including actor and singer Maurice Chevalier. Her nightclub gigs led to her first two records produced that same year. Piaf's career and fame gained momentum during the German occupation of France. She performed in various nightclubs and brothels, which flourished during the 1940–1945. By 1947, she was in great demand and very successful in Paris as France's most popular entertainer. After a glowing review in the New York Herald, her popularity grew to the point where she eventually appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show eight times, and at Carnegie Hall twice (1956 and 1957). On October 10, 1963, Edith Piaf died at the age of 47 from a ruptured aneurysm due to liver failure. She is worn down by excess, alcohol, morphine, rheumatoid arthritis and the suffering of a lifetime. Her last words: “Every fucking thing we do in this life, we have to pay for it.“
