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Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?

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Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?
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"Que reste-t-il de nos amours?" (French pronunciation: [kə ʁɛstə t‿il də noz‿amuʁ], transl. What Remains of Our Love?) is a French popular song, with music by Léo Chauliac and Charles Trenet, and lyrics by Trenet.[1][2] A version of the song with English lyrics entitled "I Wish You Love" is recognizable by the opening line "I wish you bluebirds, in the spring".

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French publication's cover containing the musical score and lyrics edited in 1942.
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History

The first release of the song was by French crooner Roland Gerbeau in February 1943 (78 rpm, Polydor Records: 524.830). Charles Trenet recorded his own version in July 1943 (78 rpm Columbia Records: DF 3116). French singer Lucienne Boyer's version was released in March 1944 (78 rpm, Columbia Records: BF 68).

"I Wish You Love"

The song is best known to anglophone audiences as "I Wish You Love", with new lyrics by American composer and lyricist, Albert Askew Beach (1924-1997). "I Wish You Love" was introduced in 1957 by Keely Smith as the title cut of her solo debut album, I Wish You Love, and was one of Smith's signature songs. Smith's debut album otherwise consisted of standards. She later recalled:[3]

[when] we sat down to select the songs, [record producer] Voyle Gilmore...played a bunch of standards and he said, "I want to play you a really pretty French song [...] it won't mean nothing and you won't do it in the album but I just thought I'd play it for you" and he played "I Wish You Love". So, at the end of him playing all these songs [...] I said: "Babe, I'll sing any 11 songs y'all want me to but I want to sing 'I Wish You Love'."

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Other recordings

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It has since become a standard, with many other recordings:

  • Gloria Lynne's 1963 recording for the Everest label reached No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964 and the top ten on the Easy Listening chart,[4] and #3 on Cashbox Magazine's R&B chart (Billboard did not publish standard R&B listings during 1964).[5]
  • Dalida recorded the song in 1972.
  • Rony Verbiest recorded the song in 2001.
  • An Italian version entitled "Che cosa resta" was recorded by Franco Battiato in 1999.
  • An Arabic version entitled "Shou Byeb'a" was recorded by Carla Chamoun in 2020.

Other notable recordings

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Use in film

The song was heard in several films:

References

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