Saturday, September 17, 2011

Yves Montand: Les feuilles mortes

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

A classic. . . Montand first sang this song of loss and regret in a 1946 film, Les Portes de la Nuit. A year later, Johnny Mercer took Les feuilles mortes and made it into Autumn Leaves. . .



Autumn Leaves
Jacques Prévert