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Artist: Edith Piaf
Author: Marguerite Monnot/Edith Piaf
Label: Columbia
Year: 1950
Written (by Piaf) following the tragic plane crash causing the death of her lover, French boxer and world middleweight champion Marcel Cerdan, on his way to Ney York to join her.
Covers:
Kay Starr [top 5 US as If You Love Me (Really Love Me); lyrics: Geoffrey Parsons]
Vera Lynn [idem; top 30 US]
Edith Piaf [as Hymn To Love; lyrics: Eddie Constantine]
LaVern Baker [as If You Love Me]
Shirley Bassey [idem]
Jackie Trent [idem]
Conny Vandenbos [as Loflied Der Liefde]
Will Tura [as Hymne Aan De Liefde]
Cyndi Lauper [as Hymn To Love]
Marc Almond [with Jools Holland]
Céline Dion [during the opening ceremony of the 33th Olympiad in Paris, live from the first stage of the Eiffel Tower, her first public appearance since being diagnosed with SPS in '22; her performance stopped the rain pouring down]
For Céline Dion's Hymne à l'amitié ('84), see: Falo.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)