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This song is part of a playlist: Best French Songs with English Subtitles -1960s
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ET MAINTENANT:
“In 1961, Gilbert Bécaud met on the Paris-Nice flight an actress, Elga Andersen, who was going to see her fiancé. The next day, they return on the same flight, but she is broken down. Her love story ended overnight. Bécaud offers him to have breakfast at home, in his wooden cabin in Chesnay (Yvelines). At one point, she leaned against the piano, whispering, "Now what am I going to do?" He jumped up with excitement saying, "I have a start." The song was written during the day. We immediately understood that it was a good title. From there to imagining such a tube…
The song quickly became a world standard: it was ranked No. 1 on the charts for six weeks from May 1, 1961 to June 11, 19612 and the single sold 404,000 copies.
Bécaud recorded it in English (words by Carl Sigman) under the title What Now My Love and in 1962 it became a hit in the United Kingdom in a version by Shirley Bassey which remained on the UK Singles Chart for seventeen weeks, reaching the No. 5. Having become a standard, What Now My Love once again ranks No. 14 in a version of Sonny and Cher. The versions interpreted by Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Andy Williams or even The Temptations, impose it as one of the most important world standards of the Delanoë/Bécaud binomial, just behind Je t'appartiens (Let it be me).
In this song, a snare drum almost invariably strikes the same rhythm characteristic of a bolero. The theme of the song is that of a disappointed love: despair and revolt go into a crescendo (as well as the music) and this until the tragic last line: "I really have…nothing left!" »

GILBERT BECAUD
Gilbert Bécaud born François Gilbert Leopold Silly 1 October 24, 1927 in Toulon and died December 18, 2001 in Boulogne-Billancourt, is a French singer, composer and pianist.
During his career, he performed thirty-three times on the stage of the Olympia, where he earned his nickname "Mister 100,000 volts" because of his sense of swing, because of the passions he aroused in his path and its fans who, in its early days, often broke seats out of enthusiasm. He leaves the image of an energetic man, always on the move. His polka-dot tie, his nine hundred songs2 and his hand over his ear (a spontaneous gesture, like a tic), are other specific images that have marked people's minds.

"Mes mains, Nathalie, Le Jour où la pluie viendra and Et maintenant" are among the great songs of the artist. His international career allows him to record his songs in English, German, Italian and Spanish. Several of his compositions are essential abroad, especially in the United States (What Now My Love (And now), Let It Be Me)

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