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"Tu t'laisses aller" (English: "You Let Yourself Go") is a song written in 1960 by Armenian-French artist Charles Aznavour.

"Tu t'laisses aller"
Single by Charles Aznavour
from the album Je m'voyais déjà
B-side	"J'ai perdu la tête"
Released	1960
Genre	Chanson
Length	3:43
Label	Barclay Records
Songwriter(s)	Charles Aznavour

History

For the first time it was released as a single in 1960 by Barclay Records (with "J'ai perdu la tête" on the B-side). In 1974 a new edition was re-released as a single.

The husband drinks alcohol to have the strength to tell his wife everything he thinks about her. He says the worst possible things to her,[1] but then he adds, that a little effort and a smiling face, and things could be just as before. In the end he calls her: "Come close to me. Let yourself go".[2]

It was a no. 1 hit in France in 1960, a best-selling record in Belgium in 1960,[3] and returned to the charts in 1962.[4]

In Jean-Luc Godard's film A Woman Is a Woman, the song plays on a jukebox during a tense encounter between Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

In 1995 Aznavour recorded a version of "Tu t'laisses aller" in duet with Liza Minnelli (Paris — Palais des Congrès: Intégrale du spectacle).

Adaptations

• German: "Du läßt dich gehn", written by Ernst Bader
• English: "You've Let Yourself Go", written by Marcel Stellman
• English: "You've Let Yourself Go", adaptation by Fred Ebb for Liza with a Z (1972 NBC-TV)[5]
• Dutch: "Mijn ideaal", written by Jip Feldman, song by Corry Brokken

Cover versions

• Annie Cordy
• Jacques Desrosiers (parody)
• Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band (1998)[6]

See also

• 40 chansons d'or

References

External links

• Tu t'laisses aller (live)

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