It’s a song that resembles us. “Under the sky of Paris”, under all the skies

Composed and written for a film by Julien Duvivier released in 1951, “Sous le ciel de Paris” was sung a lot by French artists as a postcard, during their concerts abroad.

In partnership with the exhibition It’s a song that resembles us – Worldwide hits of French-language popular music At the Cité internationale de la langue française in Villers-Cotterêts, these chronicles look in detail at each of the stories presented there.

Jean Bretonnière is not very lucky, so let’s still make his voice heard, he who is the first interpreter of Under the Parisian sky which, we often forget, is the song of a film – Under the Parisian sky by Julien Duvivier, released on March 28, 1951. One of those films like many others made at the time, which interweaves several stories in several social circles over the course of a single day, in the extraordinary visual and human setting of Paris.

A delightful film – go and see it on the internet – and a magnificent song that could not remain confined to the cinema: it will become a worldwide success.

In this episode of It’s a song that resembles usyou hear excerpts from:

Jean Bretonniere, Under the Parisian sky, 1951

Juliette Greco, Under the Parisian sky, 1951

Edith Piaf, Under the Parisian sky, 1954

Jacqueline Francois, Under the Parisian sky, 1953

Francis Lemarque, Under the Parisian sky, 1988

Belinda Carlisle, Under the Parisian sky, 2007

HK, Under the Parisian sky, 2013

Music of the Foreign Legion, Under the Parisian sky, 2013

Zaho of Sagazan and The Handel-Hendrix Academy Choir, Under the Parisian sky, August 11, 2024

You can also extend this column with the book It’s a song that resembles us published by Heritage Publishing.

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