Composer Charles Dumont with Edith Piaf in the early 1960s: she had previously dismissed him as ‘a mechanical songwriter ...
"La Vie en Rose," performed by the iconic Édith Piaf, remains one of the most celebrated songs in French music history.
It would be on December 29, 1960, at the Olympia, with morphine to ease the pain. Piaf's recital included other songs by the Vaucaire-Dumont tandem, such as "Mon Dieu" and "Les Flonflons du Bal." ...
This song will go round the world, and I will open my next concert tour with it.” Charles Dumont will forever be associated ...
The songwriter and singer Charles Dumont, who composed the song "Non, je ne regrette rien" ("No, I do not regret anything") made world famous by Edith Piaf, has died aged 95, his partner told AFP ...