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LA MER: "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. Trenet said that he had written an initial version of the song's lyrics as a poem at the age of 16, many years before he came up with a tune for it. The tune came to him while he was traveling by train in 1943 between Montpellier and Perpignan as he was gazing out of the window at the Étang de Thau, a lagoon in the south of France. He jotted it down on a piece of paper and in the afternoon he worked out the details with his pianist Léo Chauliac. That evening they performed it in front of an audience without much of an impact.
Besides the original in French, the song was also recorded in several other languages with the English version "Beyond the Sea" being particularly popular and becoming the signature song for the American singer Bobby Darin. In 1966 there were already over 100 different recordings of "La Mer", and it was considered to be France's best-selling song, together with Édith Piaf's "La Vie en rose" Video link:[ Ссылка ]. By the time of Trenet's death in 2001, there were more than 4,000 different recordings of it, with over 70 million copies sold in total.

CHARLES TRENET:
Charles Trenet 18 May 1913 – 19 February 2001) was a French singer-songwriter, who composed both the music and the lyrics to nearly a thousand songs over a career that lasted more than sixty years. Trenet's best-known songs include "Boum!": Video link: [ Ссылка ] , "La Mer", "Y'a d'la joie", "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?": Video link: [ Ссылка ] , "Ménilmontant" and "Douce France".Trenet first arrived in Paris in the 1930s. From 1933 to 1936, he worked with the Swiss pianist Johnny Hess as a duo known as Charles and Johnny. They performed at various Parisian venues.The duo continued until 1936 when Trenet was called up for national service. He received the nickname that he would retain all his life: "Le Fou chantant" (The Singing Madman). At the start of World War II, Trenet was called up. Like many other artists of the time, he chose to go on entertaining the occupying forces rather than sacrifice his career. He agreed, when asked by the Germans, to go and sing for the French prisoners-of-war in Germany. After the end of hostilities, he moved to the United States where he lived for a few years and where he quickly became a success. After a few concerts at the Bagdad in New York City, Trenet became a big hit. In 1954, Trenet returned to Paris. His new successes like Nationale 7 reinforce his notoriety. Other great songs date from the 1950s: "La Folle Complainte", "Moi, j'aime le music-hall" and "L'âme des poètes".In the early 1960s, with the yéyé wave, Charles Trenet became rarer on stage. He recorded his last song "Les poètes descendent dans la rue" in the studio on March 5, 1999.

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