C'est si bon

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C'est si bon
Orchestra Jacques Hélian with Jean Marco
publication February 18, 1948
Genre (s) Jazz , chanson
text André Hornez
music Henri Betti
Cover versions
1948 Yves Montand
1950 Louis Armstrong
1953 Eartha Kitt

C'est si bon ( It's so good ) is a French chanson written by Henri Betti (music) and André Hornez (lyrics) in 1947 . It has been published by numerous artists, such as Yves Montand , Louis Armstrong and Eartha Kitt .

text

C'est si bon

De partir n'importe où

Bras dessus bras dessous

En chantant des chansons

C'est si bon

De se dire des mots doux

Des petits you rien tout

Corn qui en disent long

En voyant notre mine ravie

Les passants in the rue nous envient

C'est si bon

De guetter dans ses yeux

Un espoir merveilleux

Qui donne le frisson

C'est si bon

Ces petites sensations

Et si nous nous aimons

C'est parce que c'est si bon

C'est inouï ce qu'elle a pour séduire

Sans parler de c'que je n'peux pas dire

C'est si bon

Quand j'la tiens dans mes bras

De me dire que tout ça

C'est à moi ...

Creation and publication

Henri Betti (1917–2005), Maurice Chevalier's piano accompanist from 1940 to 1945, had the idea for the melody in July 1947 while walking in Nice . He put the composition on paper in just ten minutes. He then arranged a meeting in Paris with the songwriter André Hornez (1905-1989), who suggested ten possible titles. C'est si bon was Hornez's least favorite suggestion because he feared possible confusion with the title C'est bon published in 1942 by Charles Trenet , but Betti continued by saying that "si" made all the difference Concerns away. The song was completed in the following weeks and registered with SACEM on August 16, 1947 .

The authors initially offered the song to Edith Piaf , who declined and instead suggested Yves Montand as the interpreter. But Montand also hesitated at first, and so the song was recorded for the first time on February 18, 1948 by the Jacques Hélian Orchestra with Jean Marco as singer for the radio and on record. Soon after, it was recorded by Les Sœurs Étienne with the Raymond Legrand Orchestra . The song was sung live for the first time on February 25, 1948 at the Nice Jazz Festival by Suzy Delair . Convinced of the success of the song, Yves Montand also recorded the song on record and thus had a number one hit in Italy, among other places .

Other versions

Jerry Seelen created an English version of the text in 1950. Louis Armstrong recorded the song in 1950 with Sy Oliver and his orchestra. With this recording, the piece also became internationally known. Eartha Kitt's English version of the song reached number 8 on the Billboard charts in 1953 and was popularized in 1954 by the film New Faces .

Also in 1950, Ralph Maria Siegel created a German version of the text, which was recorded by Gerhard Wendland , among others . Another German version by Adrian Wolf (under the pseudonym Thore Holgerson) was recorded by Mireille Mathieu , among others .

reception

The piece has often been used in films such as Billy Wilder's films Ariane and Fedora , Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, and the film Laurel Canyon .

Recordings (selection)

French German English Instrumental

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Claude Bolling Big Band: C'EST SI BON , CD booklet, accessed on March 15, 2017
  2. ↑ a b C'est si bon , secondhandsongs.com, accessed March 15, 2017
  3. ↑ C'est Si Bon (original) - Jacques Hélian & son Orchester 1948.wmv on YouTube
  4. ↑ James Lincoln Collier: Louis Armstrong: An American Genius. Oxford University Press, New York 1983, ISBN 0-19-503377-9 , p. 316 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ^ Louis Armstrong - C'Est Si Bon. Retrieved March 22, 2013 .
  6. ^ Joel Whitburn: Top Pop Records 1940-1955 . Record Research, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin 1973, p. 31.
  7. ^ New Faces (1954). Retrieved March 22, 2013 .
  8. ^ Gerhard Wendland - C'est si bon. Retrieved March 22, 2013 .
  9. ↑ coverinfo.de , accessed on March 15, 2017