Marie (Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys song)

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"Marie"
Single by Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys
from the album The Street Giveth... And The Street Taketh Away
A-side "Can You Dance To It?"
B-side "Marie"
Released1969 (1969)
Label Polydor
"C'est la vie, Lily"
Single by Joe Dassin
Language French
A-side
  • "C'est la vie, Lily"
  • "Billy le Bordelais"
Released1970 (1970)
Label CBS Disques
Songwriter(s) French adaptation: Pierre Delanoë
Joe Dassin singles chronology
"Les Champs-Élysées"
(1969)
"C'est la vie, Lily" / "Billy le Bordelais"
(1970)
"L'Amérique" / "Cécilia"
(1970)
Music video
"C'est la vie, Lily" (French TV, 1970) on YouTube

"Marie" is a song, originally recorded by Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys on their 1969 album The Street Giveth... And The Street Taketh Away. In the same year it was released on the B-side of the single "Can You Dance to It?".

Contents

Soon it was adapted into French (under the title "C'est la vie, Lily") by Pierre Delanoë. The French version was released in 1970 by Joe Dassin. [1] [2]

Background and writing

The original was produced by Jimi Hendrix and Cat Mother. [3]

Commercial performance

According to the charts, courtesy of the Centre d'Information et de Documentation du Disque, that U.S. Billboard published in its "Hits of the World" section), the song "C'est la vie Lily" by Joe Dassin reached at least the top 6 in France (in the national [i.e. domestic] singles chart). [4]

Track listings

Joe Dassin version

7" single "C'est la vie, Lily / Billy Le Bordelais" CBS 4736

A. "C'est la vie, Lily" (3:03)
B. "Billy le Bordelais" (4:02) [5] [6]


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