![]() ![]() ![]() It's celebrating its 75th anniversary, and it has an additional significance, in English, as the signature song of Keely Smith, who left us just before Christmas. But this week's Song of the Week is another Trenet song, a lovely ballad. In the course of the show, I mention that my friend Monique Fauteux sang with Charles Trenet, and I credit him as the writer of "La Mer" (famous in English as Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea") and "Boum!" (memorably deployed by Bond's nemesis in Skyfall). Nevertheless, all you millennial types, make sure you do the right thing and send the young lady out into fifty-below temperatures to die in a snowbank rather than trigger her by inviting her to stay for one more drink.Īlternatively, there are a couple of wintry songs from Loudon Wainwright III and Everything But The Girl in our audio special rounding up the best live performances from my various shows over the years - plus many non-wintry songs from Liza Minnelli, Paul Simon and others. So readers may prefer to warm up with " Baby, It's Cold Outside" - which it certainly is. It's been a hellishly cold weekend here in northern New Hampshire, down to below -20 Fahrenheit, and that's without adding in the wind chill.
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