Francis Lai (Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, 26 April 1932 - 7 November 2018… Read Full Bio ↴Francis Lai (Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, 26 April 1932 - 7 November 2018) was a French composer, noted for his film scores.
While in his twenties, Lai left home and went to Paris, where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene. In 1965 he met filmmaker Claude Lelouch and was hired to help write the score for the film A Man and a Woman. Released in 1966, the film was a major international success, earning a number of Academy Awards. The young Lai received a Golden Globe Award nomination for "Best Original Score". This initial success brought more opportunities to work for the film industry both in his native France, where he continued to work with Lelouch on scores to films such as Vivre pour vivre (1967), Un homme qui me plaît (1969), Le voyou (1970) and La bonne année (1973), as well as in Great Britain and the United States. He is known for his support of Mireille Mathieu in many compositions and recordings. In 1970 he wrote the score for director René Clément's film, Rider on the Rain ("Le passager de la pluie"). It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc in September 1971.
In 1970 Lai won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for the film Love Story. In the United States, the soundtrack album went to No. 2 in the Billboard album charts and the film's theme, "Where Do I Begin", was a hit single with lyrics by Carl Sigman for traditional pop singer Andy Williams. The song would also be recorded successfully by Lai himself, with a full orchestra, and by Henry Mancini and Shirley Bassey. Lai's "Love Story" theme was heard in the 1978 Love Story sequel titled Oliver's Story, although the main score was composed by Lee Holdridge.
His movie scores include films as diverse as Mayerling, Three into Two Won't Go, International Velvet, Édith et Marcel, and Michael Winner films such as I'll Never Forget What's'isname and Hannibal Brooks. Lai has also had success with music written for softcore erotic films like Emmanuelle 2 (1975) and Bilitis (1977). He earned high praise for the latter film's score and its sound-track sold over a million copies throughout the world.
His composition "Aujourd'hui C'est Toi" (Today It's You) is probably best known in the UK as the theme music for the long-running BBC television current affairs documentary series Panorama.
In a career spanning forty years, Lai has also written music for television programs and alone or in collaboration with others has composed music for more than one hundred films and has personally written more than six hundred songs. Notably, he penned the music for the Perry Como hit "I Think of You" (lyrics by Rod McKuen).
While in his twenties, Lai left home and went to Paris, where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene. In 1965 he met filmmaker Claude Lelouch and was hired to help write the score for the film A Man and a Woman. Released in 1966, the film was a major international success, earning a number of Academy Awards. The young Lai received a Golden Globe Award nomination for "Best Original Score". This initial success brought more opportunities to work for the film industry both in his native France, where he continued to work with Lelouch on scores to films such as Vivre pour vivre (1967), Un homme qui me plaît (1969), Le voyou (1970) and La bonne année (1973), as well as in Great Britain and the United States. He is known for his support of Mireille Mathieu in many compositions and recordings. In 1970 he wrote the score for director René Clément's film, Rider on the Rain ("Le passager de la pluie"). It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc in September 1971.
In 1970 Lai won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for the film Love Story. In the United States, the soundtrack album went to No. 2 in the Billboard album charts and the film's theme, "Where Do I Begin", was a hit single with lyrics by Carl Sigman for traditional pop singer Andy Williams. The song would also be recorded successfully by Lai himself, with a full orchestra, and by Henry Mancini and Shirley Bassey. Lai's "Love Story" theme was heard in the 1978 Love Story sequel titled Oliver's Story, although the main score was composed by Lee Holdridge.
His movie scores include films as diverse as Mayerling, Three into Two Won't Go, International Velvet, Édith et Marcel, and Michael Winner films such as I'll Never Forget What's'isname and Hannibal Brooks. Lai has also had success with music written for softcore erotic films like Emmanuelle 2 (1975) and Bilitis (1977). He earned high praise for the latter film's score and its sound-track sold over a million copies throughout the world.
His composition "Aujourd'hui C'est Toi" (Today It's You) is probably best known in the UK as the theme music for the long-running BBC television current affairs documentary series Panorama.
In a career spanning forty years, Lai has also written music for television programs and alone or in collaboration with others has composed music for more than one hundred films and has personally written more than six hundred songs. Notably, he penned the music for the Perry Como hit "I Think of You" (lyrics by Rod McKuen).
A Man And A Woman
Francis Lai Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'A Man And A Woman' by these artists:
07. U2 Little sister, don't you worry about a thing today Take the…
45 Dip When I was a man and you were a woman We…
A Man and a Woman Calling everyone, child woman & man Let’s come together in …
Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra For every man there's a woman For every life there's a…
BEDROOM - U2 Little sister, don't you worry about a thing today Take the…
Benny Goodman For every man there's a woman For every life there's a…
Chris & Peter Allen Lets not Let our lives Get away from us We have time Althoug…
Christopher Innvar and Company Hot damn I'm down on my knees I want a…
Claudine Longet Comme nos voix Ba, da, ba, da, ba, da, ba, da Chantent…
Ella Fitzgerald Maybe he's not much, just another man Doing what he can But…
Engelbert Humperdinck When hearts are passing in the night, in the lonely Night Th…
Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra For every man there's a woman For every life there's a…
Free Design When hearts are passing in the night, in the lonely…
Garry Blake & His Orchestra For every man there's a woman For every life there's a…
Geoff Love & His Orchestra When hearts are passing in the night, in the lonely…
Harry James & His Orchestra For every man there's a woman For every life there's a…
Henry Rollins A man and a woman locked in a hot apartment…
Herbie Mann When hearts are passing in the night, in the lonely…
Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra For every man there's a woman For every life there's a…
J.Last Let us put man and woman together, See which one is…
Jackie Gleason Love, to a man, is just a thing apart To take…
Janet Seidel Comme nos voix, ba, da, ba, da, da, ba, da,…
John Foxx And The Maths When I was a man and you were a woman We…
Johnny Gibbs and his Orchestra For every man there's a woman For every life there's a…
Johnny Mathis When hearts are passing in the night, in the lonely…
Les Baxter - Orchestra And Chorus For every man there's a woman For every life there's a…
Les Reed And His Orchestra When hearts are passing in the night, in the lonely…
Lester Lanin and His Orchestra For every man there's a woman For every life there's a…
Lime (Denis LePage, Denyse LePage) (Guitar Solo) A man and …
M.O.R. Orchestra I don't want to be no man's woman It don't make…
Mantovani & His Orchestra For every man there's a woman For every life there's a…
Matt Monro When hearts are passing in the night, in the lonely…
Max Greger Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love s…
Meat Loaf And the band began to play, without a song they'd…
Pat Bringer and Band If you told me that you love me, I would…
Percy Faith & His Orchestra For every man there's a woman For every life there's a…
Robert Goulet When hearts are passing in the night, in the lonely…
Rollins Band A man and a woman locked in a hot apartment…
Ronnie Price & His Orchestra For every man there's a woman For every life there's a…
Tamiko Jones When hearts are passing in the night, in the lonely…
The Front Lawn Eugene said they′d be driving up last night But the car's…
The Man And The Woman Calling everyone, child woman & man Let’s come together in …
The Roland Shaw Singers And Orchestra When hearts are passing in the night, in the lonely…
Toots Thielemans & His Orchestra For every man there's a woman For every life there's a…
U2 Little sister don't you worry about a thing today Take the…
U2 (ROCKDL) Little sister, don't you worry about a thing today Take the…
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb 2004 Little sister don't you worry about a thing today Take the…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Francis Lai:
À l'ombre de nous A l'ombre de nous Restera toujours Au noms de l'amour Un gou…
Aujourd 'hui C'est Toi Comme nos voix, ba da ba da da ba da…
Aujourd'hui c'est toi Comme nos voix, ba da ba da da ba da…
Carry That Weight Boy, you gotta carry that weight Carry that weight a long…
Le passager de la pluie Le ciel est gris la pluie s'invite comme par surprise elle e…
Les Uns et les Autres Les uns et les autres Les uns ou les autres Si chacun…
Plus Fort Que Nous Comme nos voix, ba da ba da da ba da…
Samba saravah Etre heureux c'est plus ou moins ce qu'on cherche J'aime rir…
Snow Frolic When your legs don't work like they used to before And…
Solitude In my solitude You haunt me With dreadful ease Of days go…
The Windmills of Your Mind Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel…
Theme From Love Story Mike Reno Miscellaneous Almost Paradise (love Theme From F…
Un Homme Comme nos voix, ba da ba da da ba da…
Un Homme & Une Femme Comme nos voix, ba da ba da da ba da…
Un homme et une femme Comme nos voix, ba da ba da da ba da…
Un homme et une femme vingt Ans déjà Comme nos voix, ba da ba da da da da…
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Song Lyrics:
Comme nos voix ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Chantent tout bas ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Nos cœurs y voient ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Comme une chance comme un espoir
Comme nos voix ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Nos cœurs y croient ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Encore une fois ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Tout recommence, la vie repart
Combien de joies
Bien des drames
Et voilà!
C'est une longue histoire
Un homme
Une femme
Ont forgé la trame du hasard
Comme nos voix ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Nos cœurs y voient ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Encore une fois ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Comme une chance comme un espoir
Comme nos voix ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Nos cœurs en joie ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
On fait le choix ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
D'une romance, qui passait là
Chance qui passait là
Chance pour toi et moi ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Toi et moi ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Toi et moi ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Toi et moi ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Toi et moi
(Translation)
Like our voices... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Sing low... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Our hearts see... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Like a chance like a hope
Like our voices... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Our hearts believe in it... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Again.... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Everything starts again, life starts again
How many joys
many dramas
And There you go!
It's a long story
A man
A woman
Have forged the fabric of chance
Like our voices.... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Our hearts see... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Again... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Like a chance like a hope
Like our voices... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Our hearts in joy... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
We make the choice... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
Of a romance, which passed there
Luck passing by
Luck for you and me... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
You and me... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
You and me... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
You and me... ba da ba da, ba ba da ba da
You and me....
@alonzocalvillo6702
I remember watching this movie with my wife while on leave in 1969. Yes we are still married.
@baptisteo5820
@@kshtjmlk shut up
@fullmooneverynite
This made me smile :)
@VerdementeSano
Good year 😏
@dambaeisseyo
1969 hehe
@cerliezio
Probably because you saw the film together
@jayrutter6111
My wife and I saw this film in 1967 two years before we wed.
It was played at our wedding.
@steamgent4592
only took 30 some years but I've finally found the song that was played in every Department store in the 70s and 80s! been trying to find what this song is for ages!
@OverUnderThru
Came here for the exact same reason! 😂 Funny how so many of us from the 60s and 70s are walking around thinking the same thing
@hectorvielma8502
Muy bonita cancion. Siempre me ha gustado