"Tu t'laisses aller" | |
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Single by Charles Aznavour | |
from the album Je m'voyais déjà | |
B-side | "J'ai perdu la tête" |
Released | 1960 |
Genre | Chanson |
Length | 3:43 |
Label | Barclay Records |
Songwriter(s) | Charles Aznavour |
"Tu t'laisses aller" (English: "You Let Yourself Go") is a song written in 1960 by Armenian-French artist Charles Aznavour.
For the first time it was released as a single in 1960 by Barclay Records (with "J'ai perdu la tête" on the B-side). In 1974 a new edition was re-released as a single.
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It was a no. 1 hit in France in 1960, a best-selling record in Belgium in 1960, [3] and returned to the charts in 1962. [4]
In Jean-Luc Godard's film A Woman Is a Woman , the song plays on a jukebox during a tense encounter between Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
In 1995 Aznavour recorded a version of "Tu t'laisses aller" in duet with Liza Minnelli (Paris — Palais des Congrès: Intégrale du spectacle).
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