Parlez-moi d'amour (song)

"Parlez-moi d'amour" is a song written by Jean Lenoir in 1930. An English translation was written by Bruce Sievier (1894, Paris – 1953) and is known as "Speak to Me of Love" or "Tell Me About Love". Lucienne Boyer was the first singer to record the song, and she made it very popular in France, America, and the rest of the world.

It was also recorded by Dalida in 1961, and it features her 1961 album, Garde-moi la dernière danse.

Caterina Valente recorded it in 1960, but she sang it with a very special timbre.

Film soundtracks
The song is sung by Constance Bennett on a film set in What Price Hollywood? (1932). It is heard in one of the early scenes of Casablanca (1942), played on Sam's piano when Ingrid Bergman first appears in Rick's Cafe. It also appears in One Way Passage (1932) as an orchestration on the soundtrack as a steward brings drinks to Frank McHugh and Aileen McMahon in their cabin. The song also appears as an instrumental played by Sean Penn's character Emmet Ray on guitar in Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown" (1999).

"Speak to Me of Love" was recorded by Barbra Streisand on her 1966 "Je M'Appelle Barbra" LP, using both French and English lyrics.

A modern arrangement by Mark Isham is featured in the Alan Rudolph film, The Moderns (1988); it is sung by CharlElie Couture. The song is featured prominently in the 1998 American film The Impostors  and in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011).

Lyrics
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Parlez moi d'amour

Redites-moi des choses tendres

Votre beau discours

Mon coeur n'est pas las de l'entendre

Pourvu que toujours

Vous répétiez ces mots suprêmes:

Je vous aime

Vous savez bien

Que dans le fond je n'en crois rien

Mais cependant je veux encore

Ecouter ces mots que j'adore

Votre voix aux sons caressants

Qui les murmure en frémissant

Me berce de sa belle histoire

Et malgré moi je veux y croire

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Il est si doux

Mon cher trésor d'être un peu fou

La vie est parfois trop amère

Si l'on ne croit pas aux chimères

Le chagrin est vite apaisé

Et se console d'un baiser

Du Coeur on guerit la blessure

Par un serment qui le rassure

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