Juliette Gréco beautifully performs “Les Feuilles Mortes,” which was composed by Joseph Kosma in 1945, and recorded by Yves Montand in 1949, and later retitled “The Autumn Leaves” with English lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Mercer’s friend and former bandmate Jo Stafford to made the first English-language recording in July, 1950.
A half-French half-English version was released by Édith Piaf in 1951.
Monsieur Pas de Merde also recommends the brilliant version of “Autumn Leaves” recorded by Eva Cassady
The iconic Beegie Adair Trio performs the jazz classic “Autumn Leaves,” (“Les Feuilles Mortes”) written by Joseph Kosma
“Autumn Leaves” is said to have been recorded nearly 1400 times by mainstream and modern jazz musicians alone and is the eighth most-recorded tune by jazzmen.
The first commercial recordings of “Les Feuilles mortes” were released in 1950, by Cora Vaucaire and by Yves Montand. Johnny Mercer wrote the English lyric and gave it the title “Autumn Leaves”
Chanson Du Jour 10/30/2016 Yves Montand – Les Feuilles Mortes
Looking outside the cafe window on Blackstone Boulevard, multi-colored leaves are swirling about Lippit Park. Autumn seems fully arrived, and this beautiful melody came to mind.
“The Autumn Leaves” is a jazz standard covered by Harry James, Doris Day, Chet Baker, Bill Evans, Erroll Garner and many others.
The song originated in France in 1941 as “Les Feuilles Mortes.” It was composed by Hungarian-French composer Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet French Jacques Prévert.
The song and was made popular by the cool singing Yves Montand. This clip appears to be from a film – if you know the title, please leave a comment.
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