L'amour s'en va

"L'amour s'en va"
"L'amour s'en va"
Eurovision Song Contest 1963 entry
Country	Monaco
Artist(s)	Françoise Hardy
Language	French
Composer(s)	Françoise Hardy
Lyricist(s)	Françoise Hardy
Conductor	Raymond Lefèvre
Finals performance
Final result	5th
Final points	25
Entry chronology
	◄ ""Dis rien"" (1962)
	""Où sont-elles passées"" (1964) ►

"L'amour s'en va" ("Love goes away") was the Monegasque entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963, composed and performed in French by French singer and actress Françoise Hardy.

Background

Hardy had had her breakthrough as an 18-year-old in late 1962 with the yé-yé hit "Tous les garçons et les filles", which sold some 700,000 copies in France alone,^[1] and she would go on to become one of the francophone world's most successful and popular artists of the 1960s – as well as an influential fashion icon.

"L'amour s'en va" is in the chanson style, popular in the early years of the Contest. Hardy sings about a relationship which is conducted in the knowledge that love is a fleeting thing – however this does not seem to matter to either of the lovers involved, as they "chase after it". Hardy also recorded the song in Italian and German, as "L'amore va" and "Die Liebe geht", respectively.

The song was performed fifteenth on the night (following Belgium's Jacques Raymond with "Waarom?" and preceding Luxembourg's Nana Mouskouri with "À force de prier"). At the close of voting, it had received 25 points, placing 5th in a field of 16. "L'amour s'en va" however went on to win Hardy the prestigious French award Grand Prix du Disque in 1963 and some forty years after its original release the song still counts as one of her signature tunes.

It was succeeded as Monegasque representative at the 1964 Contest by Romuald with "Où sont-elles passées".

Sources and external links

References

^ Bestsellers Les Meilleures Ventes Tout Temps de 45 T. / Singles, InfoDisc Archived 2008-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, accessed on line April 30, 2009.

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[1] Bestsellers Les Meilleures Ventes Tout Temps de 45 T. / Singles, InfoDisc Archived 2008-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, accessed on line April 30, 2009.

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v t e Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest
Participation	1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 2004 2005 2006
Artists	Minouche Barelli Caline Mary Christy Lise Darly François Deguelt Colette Deréal Dominique Dussault Séverine Ferrer Anne-Marie Godart Jean Jacques Françoise Hardy Line and Willy Peter MacLane Marie Maryon Marjorie Noël Jacques Pills Romuald Séverine Sophie Téréza Michèle Torr Olivier Toussaint Laurent Vaguener
Songs	"À chacun sa chanson" "Allons, allons les enfants" "L'amour s'en va" "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" "Bien plus fort" "Boum-Badaboum" "Ce soir-là" "Celui qui reste et celui qui s'en va" "Une chanson c'est une lettre" "La Coco-Dance" "Comme on s'aime" "Dis rien" "Les Jardins de Monaco" "Maman, maman" "Marlène" "Mon ami Pierrot" "Notre planète" "Notre vie c'est la musique" "Où sont-elles passées" "Une petite française" "Toi, la musique et moi" "Tout de moi" "Un train qui part" "Va dire à l'amour"

v t e Eurovision Song Contest 1963
Countries	Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Italy Luxembourg Monaco Netherlands Norway Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Yugoslavia
Artists	Alain Barrière Heidi Brühl Ronnie Carroll Carmela Corren José Guardiola Laila Halme Françoise Hardy Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann Nana Mouskouri Esther Ofarim Annie Palmen Emilio Pericoli Jacques Raymond Anita Thallaug Vice Vukov Monica Zetterlund
Songs	"À force de prier" "Algo prodigioso" "L'amour s'en va" "Brodovi" "Dansevise" "Elle était si jolie" "En gång i Stockholm" "Marcel" "Muistojeni laulu" "Say Wonderful Things" "Solhverv" "Een speeldoos" "T'en va pas" "Uno per tutte" "Vielleicht geschieht ein Wunder" "Waarom?"