Love story

Apparently, I never mentioned that one of the most covered love songs of all time is, in a way, a cover itself. (And well covered itself, too, in its original form).

The words (Jean Paul Martini) and the arrangements (Hector Berlioz) go a long way back--18th and 19th century, respectively, to be exact.


Plaisir D'Amour (cover; live) - Nana Mouskori

This is the first version I recall hearing; my parents had the double LP album of the British concert she did two years earlier, which pretty much sounds exactly like this, and it was one of their (and later mine, especially as a little girl) favorite albums to play.

You could also argue it's the first version that I don't recall hearing even though I did, since my parents were at that 1972 concert, with my mom very much in full swing of her pregnancy with me.




My favorite use of this song anywhere is in the movie Love Affair, with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. Did you know Irene Dunne was a classically trained singer who had actually hoped to become an opera singer at one point, before becoming an actress? Now you do.

Plaisir D'Amour (cover) - Irene Dunne (from the movie Love Affair)



Did you know Charles Boyer committed suicide two days after the love of his life, his wife of 44 years, passed away from cancer? Now you know that, too.