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...Never" (Elvis Presley) from the 19th century Italian song "O Sole Mio" by Giovanni Capurro and Eduardo Di Capua "Jealousy" (Frankie Laine) from the "gypsy tango" by the Danish composer Jacob Gade "Let It Be Me" (The Everly Brothers) from the French song "Je t'appartiens" by Gilbert Becaud and Pierre Delanoe "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (The Tokens) from the South African chant "Wimoweh" "Mack the Knife" (Bobby Darin) from the German song "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill "My Way" (Frank Sinatra) from the French song "Comme d'habitude" by Jacques Revaux and Claude...
There is an appearance by the singer-composer Gilbert Becaud, whose most famous composition gave this film its American title. His presence seems a wholly unnecessary novelty, and his songs are performed on the sound track with no-nonsense billing in the subtitles. "Sung by Gilbert Bécaud" flashes on the screen every time a scrap of mel ody is played. It is not the sort of thing to brag about...
Divorced. Gilbert ("Mr. 100,000 Volts") Becaud, 45, intense, high-energy French singer-composer (What Now My Love, The Day the Rains Came, Let It Be Me) and Monique ("Kiki") Nicolas Becaud, fortyish; after 20 years of marriage, three children; in Paris...
...Whoosh. Becaud studied piano and composition, and was making a meager living writing cabaret songs when a friend suggested in 1953 that he ought to sing them as well. "When I told my wife I was going to sing," he recalls, "she said, 'You're not going to do that!' 'Yes, I am,' I said. We laughed for three hours...
...Becaud's compulsion to compose has not been diminished by fame, money (close to $1,500,000 a year), two polo ponies and a string of houses from Versailles to Deauville to Switzerland...