All summer, we talk about a great love song every day. Today, a song as melancholic as it is radiant which reminds us that the memory of happiness is still happiness.
Remembering happiness is still happiness. So this song by Alain Souchon is a happy song. It tells of love; love in the imperfect but radiant, superb, autarkic love – two lovers who are self-sufficient and together devour both life and love.
Alain Souchon looks at the past of these two lovers – or on these two past lovers. It is We loved each otherthe penultimate song of the album fifties soul, released in 2019.
We say to ourselves immediately, listening, that it is necessarily a young couple, a young couple who recalls others, crossed in the great book of loves known to all.
In this episode of These songs that make the summeryou hear excerpts from:
Alain Souchon, We loved each other, 2019
Jean Lumiere, what we loved, 1947
Charles Aznavour, Bohemian, 1965
Nana Mouskouri, When we loved each other, 1962
Serge Reggiani, break, 1971
Serge Casero, We loved each other, 2021
Serge Gainsbourg, You can not know, 1963
Dick Rivers, And when love is gone 1965
Claude Nougaro, A little girl, 1962
Alain Souchon, We loved each other, 2019
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