The Windmill Song, the Glossary
"The Windmill Song" is the English version of the French popular song "Maître Pierre", composed in 1948 by Henri Betti with the lyrics by Jacques Plante.[1]
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38 relations: Allan McIver, Andrex (actor), Compositeurs et Chansons de Paris, Decca Records, Fernand Gignac, Georges Guétary, Ginette Garcin, Gordon Jenkins, Henri Betti, His Father's Portrait, Jacques Hélian, Jacques Martin (TV host), Jacques Pills, Jacques-Henry Rys, Jean Marco, Jean-Claude Borelly, Jean-Jacques Debout, Jula De Palma, Les Compagnons de la chanson, Les Trois Cloches, Louis Ferrari, Lucille Dumont, Marcel Amont, Marcel Cariven, March (music), Mitchell Parish, New York City, Paul Durand, Pierre Perret, Popular music, Raymond Lefèvre, Raymond Legrand, Robert Quibel, SACEM, The Andrews Sisters, Yves Montand, Yvette Giraud, 1947 strikes in France.
- Songs with lyrics by Mitchell Parish
- Songs with music by Henri Betti
- The Andrews Sisters songs
- Works about windmills
- Yves Montand songs
Allan McIver
Joseph Allan McIver (17 January 1904 – 15 June 1969) was a Canadian composer, arranger, pianist, and conductor.
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Andrex (actor)
Andrex (1907–1989) was a French film actor.
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Compositeurs et Chansons de Paris
Compositeurs et Chansons de Paris is a French short film directed by Henri Verneuil in 1951.
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Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.
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Fernand Gignac
Fernand Gignac (March 23, 1934 – August 18, 2006) was a French Canadian singer and actor.
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Georges Guétary
Georges Guétary, born Lambros Vorloou (Λάμπρος Βορλόου; 8 February 1915 – 13 September 1997) was a French singer, dancer, cabaret performer and film actor, best known for his role in the 1951 musical An American in Paris.
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Ginette Garcin
Ginette Garcin (4 January 1928 – 10 June 2010) was a French actress of stage, film and television.
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Gordon Jenkins
Gordon Hill Jenkins (May 12, 1910 – May 1, 1984) was an American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Henri Betti
Henri Betti, born Ange Betti (24 July 1917 – 7 July 2005), was a French composer and a pianist.
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His Father's Portrait
His Father's Portrait (Le Portrait de son père) is a 1953 French comedy film starring Brigitte Bardot.
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Jacques Hélian
Jacques Mikaël Der Mikaëlian better known as Jacques Hélian (born in Paris, 7 June 1912 - died 29 June 1986), was a famous French orchestra conductor for French music-hall.
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Jacques Martin (TV host)
Jacques Martin (22 June 1933 – 14 September 2007) was a French television host and producer.
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Jacques Pills
Jacques Pills (born René Jacques Ducos; 6 March 1906 – 12 September 1970) was a French singer and actor.
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Jacques-Henry Rys
Jacques-Henry Rys (1909–1960) was a 20th-century French composer and conductor.
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Jean Marco
Jean Marco (born Jean Marcopoulos; 17 December 1923 – 24 June 1953), was a French singer and composer.
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Jean-Claude Borelly
Jean-Claude Borelly is a French trumpeter and composer.
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Jean-Jacques Debout
Jean-Jacques Debout (born 9 March 1940, in Paris) is a French singer-songwriter.
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Jula De Palma
Iolanda Maria Palma (born 21 April 1931 in Milan), known as Jula De Palma, is an Italian singer.
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Les Compagnons de la chanson
Les Compagnons de la chanson were a French harmony vocal group, formed in 1946 from an earlier group founded in Lyon, France in 1941.
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Les Trois Cloches
"" is a Swiss song written in French by Jean Villard.
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Louis Ferrari
Louis Ferrari (1910–1987) was an Italian musette accordionist and composer who was active in France beginning in the 1930s.
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Lucille Dumont
Lucille Dumont (born Lucelle Dumont; January 20, 1919 – July 29, 2016) was a Canadian singer and radio and television host.
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Marcel Amont
Marcel Amont (born Marcel Jean-Pierre Balthazar Miramon,; 1 April 1929 – 8 March 2023) was a French singer of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Marcel Cariven
Marcel Auguste Antoine Cariven, (18 April 1894, Toulouse – 5 November 1979, Crosne near Paris), accessed 31 January 2015.
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March (music)
A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band.
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Mitchell Parish
Mitchell Parish (born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky; July 10, 1900 – March 31, 1993) was an American lyricist, notably as a writer of songs for stage and screen.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Paul Durand
Paul Durand (1907–1977) was a French composer.
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Pierre Perret
Pierre Perret (born 9 July 1934 in Castelsarrasin, Tarn-et-Garonne) is a French singer and composer.
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Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
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Raymond Lefèvre
Raymond Lefèvre (20 November 1929 – 27 June 2008) was a French easy listening orchestra leader, arranger and composer.
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Raymond Legrand
Raymond Paul Legrand (May 23, 1908, in Paris – November 25, 1974, in Montreal) was a French composer and conductor.
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Robert Quibel
Robert Quibel, nicknamed Bob Quibel (October 12, 1930, Le Havre, France – January 17, 2013, Baillet-en-France, France)International Who's who in Music - Volume 2: Popular Music - page 463 - Melrose Press 1996 was a French double bassist, arranger and bandleader.
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SACEM
The Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music or SACEM is a French professional association collecting payments of artists’ rights and distributing the rights to the original songwriters, composers, and music publishers.
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The Andrews Sisters
The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras.
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Yves Montand
Ivo Livi (13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), better known as Yves Montand, was an Italian-born French actor and singer.
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Yvette Giraud
Yvette Giraud (16 September 1916 – 3 August 2014) was a French traditional pop singer.
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1947 strikes in France
The 1947 strikes in France were a series of insurrectionary labour actions against post-war wage stagnation and Western capitalism.
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See also
Songs with lyrics by Mitchell Parish
- All My Love (Patti Page song)
- Blue Tango
- Deep Purple (song)
- Is That Religion?
- Louisiana Fairy Tale
- Moonlight Serenade
- Nel blu, dipinto di blu (song)
- One Morning in May (1933 song)
- Organ Grinder's Swing
- Riverboat Shuffle
- Ruby (Ruby Gentry theme)
- Sleigh Ride
- Sometime (Glenn Miller song)
- Sophisticated Lady
- Stairway to the Stars
- Stardust (1927 song)
- Stars Fell on Alabama
- Sweet Lorraine
- The Lamp Is Low
- The Syncopated Clock
- The Windmill Song
Songs with music by Henri Betti
- C'est Noël
- C'est si bon
- Rien dans les mains, rien dans les poches
- The Windmill Song
- What Can I Do? (Edith Piaf song)
The Andrews Sisters songs
- Baião Ca-Room' Pa Pa
- Bei Mir Bistu Shein
- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
- C'è la luna mezzo mare
- Chattanooga Choo Choo
- Civilization (Bob Hilliard and Carl Sigman song)
- Don't Fence Me In (song)
- Don't Rob Another Man's Castle
- Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)
- Down in the Valley (folk song)
- Here Comes Santa Claus
- I Can Dream, Can't I?
- I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)
- Idle Chatter
- Jammin' (Andrews Sisters song)
- Mamãe eu quero
- Mele Kalikimaka
- Pistol Packin' Mama
- Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume
- Rum and Coca-Cola
- Sailor (song)
- Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
- South America, Take It Away
- South American Way
- Strip Polka
- The Wedding Samba
- The Windmill Song
- Tico-Tico no Fubá
- Winter Wonderland
- Yipsee-I-O
Works about windmills
- A Windmill in Old Amsterdam
- Evening Landscape: A Windmill by a Stream
- Generation on the Wind
- Gift of the Wind
- Landscape with a Windmill
- Le Moulin de la Galette (Van Gogh series)
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
- The Mill (Rembrandt)
- The Old Mill
- The Windmill Song
- Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede
- Windmill at Zaandam
Yves Montand songs
- C'est si bon
- IP5: L'île aux pachydermes
- On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
- Rien dans les mains, rien dans les poches
- Sous le ciel de Paris (song)
- The Windmill Song
- What Can I Do? (Edith Piaf song)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windmill_Song
Also known as Maître Pierre (song).