“ Et si tu n'existais pas ” (“If you weren’t ...”) is a song by Joe Dassin . This is the first track on the Joe Dassin album (Le Costume blanc) . Poems by Pierre Delanoe and Claude Lemel , music by Toto Cutugno and Pasquale Losito.
| Et si tu n'existais pas | |||||||
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| Joe Dassin Single from the album Joe Dassin (Le Costume blanc) | |||||||
| Side “A” | "Salut" | ||||||
| Side B | "Et si tu n'existais pas" | ||||||
| Released | 1976 | ||||||
| Format | 7 inch single (45 rpm) | ||||||
| Recorded by | Studio CBE , Paris | ||||||
| Genre | french chanson pop | ||||||
| Duration | 3:25 | ||||||
| Producer | Jacques Ple | ||||||
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| Songwriter | Poems: Pierre Delanoe Claude Lemel Vito Pallavicini Music: Toto Cutugno Pasquale Losito | ||||||
| Label | CBS Disques | ||||||
| Timeline of the Joe Dassin Singles | |||||||
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Content
Writing History
The song was written by Toto Kutuno specifically for Joe Dassin. The most difficult for the co-authors of Dassin - Lemel and Delanoe was writing the lyrics. The main line of the song was supposed to be: “If there weren’t love ...”. But then the poets faced a dilemma: it turned out that if there was no love in the world, then there was nothing to write about. But when they changed just one word, the text got off the ground. .
This is one of the singer’s most famous songs [1] [2] [3] . It was translated into Russian [4] and gained great popularity among Soviet and subsequently Russian performers.
Charts
| Chart (1976) | Naive. pos. |
|---|---|
| Belgium / Flanders ( Ultratop 50 ) [5] | sixteen |
| Belgium / Walloon ( Ultratop 50 ) [6] | 12 |
| France ( SNEP ) [7] | one |
| Chart (2010) | Naive. pos. |
|---|---|
| Belgium ( Back Catalog Singles , Flanders) [8] | nineteen |
| Belgium ( Back Catalog Singles , Walloon) [9] | eight |
Notes
- ↑ Varazdat Napoleonovich Stepanyan. Dying words of famous people . - Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University, 2002. - P. 134. - ISBN 978-5-8465-0091-4 . “July 11, Joe Dassin just performed his legendary song“ If It Weren't for You ”“
- ↑ Lev Markhasev. In the easy genre: essays and notes . - Owls. composer, Leningrad branch, 1984.
- ↑ Svetlana Makarenko-Astrikova. Tales of the Coffee Fairy . - LitRes, 2015-12-20. - P. 585–. - ISBN 978-5-457-94785-6 .
- ↑ Russian translation: If you weren’t
- ↑ " Ultratop.be - Joe Dassin - Et si tu n'existais pas" (nid.) . Ultratop 50 .
- ↑ " Ultratop.be - Joe Dassin - Et si tu n'existais pas" (French) . Ultratop 50 .
- ↑ " Lescharts.com - Joe Dassin - Et si tu n'existais pas" (French) . Les classement single .
- ↑ 50 Back Catalog Singles - 09/11/2010 . Ultratop 50 . ULTRATOP & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
- ↑ 50 Back Catalog Singles - 07/31/2010 . Ultratop 50 . ULTRATOP & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
Links
- Joe Dassin "Et si tu n'existais pas" (live officiel) on YouTube - Archive INA
- Joe Dassin - Et si tu n'existais pas (audio only) on YouTube
- Hélène Ségara, Joe Dassin - Et si tu n'existais pas on YouTube