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Marie (Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys song)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = C'est la vie, Lily
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| type = single
| artist = Joe Dassin
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| language = French
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| label = CBS Disques
| writer = 'French adaptation': Pierre Delano
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| prev_title = Les Champs-lyses
| prev_year = 1969
| title =
| title2 = Billy le Bordelais
| next_title = L'Amrique
| next_title2 = Ccilia
| next_year = 1970
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"'Marie'" is a song, originally recorded by Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys on their 1969 album 'The Street Giveth... And The Street Taketh Away'. In the same year it was released on the B-side of the single "Can You Dance to It?".
Soon it was adapted into French (under the title "'C'est la vie, Lily'") by Pierre Delano. The French version was released in 1970 by Joe Dassin.
Background and writing
The original was produced by Jimi Hendrix and Cat Mother.
Commercial performance
According to the charts, courtesy of the Centre d'Information et de Documentation du Disque, that U.S. 'Billboard' published in its "Hits of the World" section), the song "C'est la vie Lily" by Joe Dassin reached at least the top 6 in France (in the national [i.e. domestic] singles chart).
Track listings
Joe Dassin version
'7" single "C'est la vie, Lily / Billy Le Bordelais" CBS 4736':A. "C'est la vie, Lily" (3:03)
:B. "Billy le Bordelais" (4:02)
See also
* List of number-one singles of 1970 (France)
References
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