Tombe la neige
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| "Tombe la neige" | ||||||||||||
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| Single by Adamo | ||||||||||||
| Released | 1963 | |||||||||||
| Format | Vinyl, 7", EP, 45 RPM | |||||||||||
| Recorded | 1963 | |||||||||||
| Genre | Pop | |||||||||||
| Length | 2:55 | |||||||||||
| Label | La Voix de Son Maître (aka His Master's Voice) |
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| Writer(s) | Salvatore Adamo | |||||||||||
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"Tombe la neige" (English: "The snow falls") is a French language song written and sung by Belgian-Italian singer Salvatore Adamo. The song was released in 1963 and became an international hit and one of his best-known songs.
Releases
- 45 rpm (France)
- A-side: Tombe la neige (2:55)
- B-side: Car je veux (2:40)
- EP (France)
- A1: Tombe la neige (2:55)
- A2: J'ai raté le coche (2:35)
- B1: Car je veux (2:40)
- B2: Le train va (2:50)
- Adamo Language versions
Adamo also released versions in many languages that contributed to the propagation of the song worldwide:
- German: "Grau zieht der Nebel"
- Italian: "Cade la neve"
- Japanese: "Yuki ga Furu" (雪が降る)
- Spanish: "Cae la nieve"
- Turkish: "Her yerde kar var"
- Azeri: "Gar yaqir"
- Persian: "برف میبارد"
- Vietnamese: "Tuyết rơi"
Covers
The song was subject to many covers in original French version and in other language versions[1]
- In 1969, Danièle Vidal recorded it on her album L'amour est bleu
- Paul Mauriat made an instrumental version in 1971 on an album also entitled Tombe la neige
- In 2008, Adamo recorded it as a duo with Laurent Voulzy on the album Le bal des gens bien
- Languages
- In 1965. Turkish singer Ajda Pekkan had her first recording, "Her Yerde Kar Var", an arrangement of Salvatore Adamo's "Tombe la Neige" by Fecri Ebcioğlu.
- In Germany, Alexandra had a hit with the German version "Grau zieht der Nebel"
- In 1968, Emil Gorovets recorded it in Russian as "Padaet sneg" (in Russian И падает снег) on his album Vdali
- In 2010, Adamo recorded it as a duet with Mario Barravecchia in Italian based on Adamo's Italian rendition "Cade la neve". It appears in a collection album Intimo - Le più belle canzoni italiane
