Dors, mon amour

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"Dors, mon amour" (French pronunciation:

Hubert Giraud, composed by Pierre Delanoë and performed in 1958 by André Claveau
as France's entry and the winner of the pan-European Eurovision Song Contest, gaining other versions and minor commercial success.

Described as a romantic "lullaby", the song won the

music chart
achievement in Belgium and featured in another commercially successful album.

Composition

"Dors, mon amour" is a love song, expressed by the singer telling his lover to sleep, while he muses on their love and the power of the night. It is reviewed as "a classical sort of lullaby",[1][2] and is compared to newer editions entries songs as "hardly indicative of the camp and bombast which would later come to define Eurovision."[3]

The song was also covered in French in 1958, by 1957 Eurovision winner Corry Brokken, Achille Togliani and Germana Caroli. It is covered in German by Camillo und die Bernd Hansen-Sänger as "Unser Glück, mon amour" and in Swedish by 1958 Eurovision entrant Alice Babs as "Sov min älskling".[4]

Eurovision Song Contest

"Dors, mon amour" won the

Un grand amour
". By the close of voting, it had received 27 points, placing it first, with three points above Switzerland. This is the first winning entry sung by a male leading vocalist, following the 1956 and 1957 editions.

The song was succeeded as French representative at the

Een beetje", sung by Teddy Scholten representing the Netherlands
.

Charts

"Dors, mon amour" is marked as a numberless "peak"-note position on Belgium's

music chart for the week of 1 June 1958,[4] and is included in the 2005 compilation "50 Years Of The Eurovision Song Contest 1956 - 1980" which charted in Switzerland.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Detailed info and lyrics". Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Lyrics and Translation – Net Als Toen". musixmatch.com. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
  3. ^ MELLO, DAVID (11 July 2021). "Eurovision: The First 10 Winners (& Their Songs)". Screen Rant. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
  4. ^ a b "André Claveau – Dors, mon amour". ultratop.be. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
  5. ^ "50 Years Of The Eurovision Song Contest 1956 - 1980". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 27 November 2022.

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Preceded by
Eurovision Song Contest winners
1958
Succeeded by
"
Een beetje" by Teddy Scholten