L'amour s'en va

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"L'amour s'en va"
Single by Françoise Hardy
LanguageFrench
Released1963
Length2:24
LabelVogue
Songwriter(s)Françoise Hardy
Françoise Hardy singles chronology
"Ton meilleur ami"
(1962) 		"L'amour s'en va"
(1963) 		"Qui aime-t-il vraiment ?"
(1963)
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"L'amour s'en va" (French pronunciation:

Grand Prix du Disque
, and over time it has become one of Hardy's signature songs.

Background

Conception

Francophone world's most successful and popular artists of the 1960s – as well as an influential fashion icon
.

She wrote and composed the song "L'amour s'en va". This is a slow-paced chanson, a style popular in France and Europe in the 1960s. Under the song's title which means "love goes away", Hardy sings about a relationship which is conducted in the knowledge that love is a fleeting thing – however this does not seem to matter to either of the lovers involved, as they "chase after it".[1]

In addition to the French language original version, she recorded an Italian version as "L'amore va", with lyrics by Vito Pallavicini, and a German version as "Die Liebe geht", with lyrics by Ernst Bader.[2][3]

Eurovision

Télé Monte-Carlo (TMC) internally selected "L'amour s'en va" as its entrant for the 8th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.[4]

On 23 March 1963, the Eurovision Song Contest was held at the

Luxembourg's "À force de prier" by Nana Mouskouri. Raymond Lefèvre conducted the event's live orchestra in the performance of the Monegasque entry.[5]

At the close of voting, the song had received 25 points, placing fifth in a field of sixteen.

Où sont-elles passées" by Romuald
.

Aftermath

The song is included in a compilation album of French-language Eurovision Song Contest entries, titled "Eurovision: Les plus belles chansons françaises", released in 2000.[7]

Charts

"L'amour s'en va" entered Belgium's two main charts in 1963, the official French-Belgian on 1 April until 1 September spanning twenty-four weeks, and the official Flemish-Belgian on 1 June 1963 where it spanned four weeks. The song was also a big hit in Sweden being number 1 at the best selling chart of the music paper "Show Business", number 1 at

Kvällstoppen
.

Weekly charts

Chart (1963) Position
France[8] 5
Belgium (Ultratop Wallonia)[2] 7
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders)[2] 17
Sweden (
Kvällstoppen)[9]
 2
Sweden (Tio i Topp)[10] 1

References

  1. ^ ""L'amour s'en va" lyrics". The Diggiloo Thrush.
  2. ^ a b c "FRANÇOISE HARDY - L'AMOUR S'EN VA (CHANSON)". ultratop.be. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  3. ^ "FRANÇOISE HARDY - L'AMOUR S'EN VA (CHANSON), German Version". ultratop.be. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  4. ^ "National Selections: 1963". Eurovisionworld.
  5. EBU
    .
  6. ^ "Official Eurovision Song Contest 1963 scoreboard". Eurovision Song Contest.
  7. ^ "Eurovision: Les plus belles chansons françaises". ultratop.be. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Billboard Hits of the World". Billboard. 8 June 1963. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  9. ISBN 9163021404
    .
  10. ISBN 919727125X
    .

External links
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