Le Téléphone Pleure

"Le Téléphone Pleure"
Single by Claude François
from the album Le Mal-aimé
B-side "Quand la pluie finira de tomber"
"Heureusement, tu penses à moi"
Released October 1974
Format 7 inch
Recorded 1974
Genre French pop
Length 3:58
Label Disques Flèche, Phonogram (France)
Nobel (Canada)
Poplandia (Spain)
Bradley's Records (UK)
Writer(s) Frank Thomas (lyrics)
Jean-Pierre Bourtayre,
Claude François (music)
Claude François singles chronology
"Le Mal-aimé" (1974) "Le Téléphone Pleure"
(1974)
"Toi et moi contre le monde entier"
(1975)

"Le Téléphone Pleure" was a 1974 hit single by French artist Claude François. It was released on Disques Flèche/Phonogram. The song was re-recorded in English as "Tears on the Telephone" and was a hit in the British charts[1] in 1976.

Italian singer-songwriter Domenico Modugno made an Italian version of the song, "Piange... il telefono", in 1975. This version gained so much success that a film was made based on its lyrics, Piange... il telefono. It was directed by Lucio De Caro and starred Domenico Modugno, Francesca Guadagno, Marie Yvonne Danaud and Claudio Lippi.

Track list[2]

 France 7 inch single (October 1974)
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Le téléphone pleure" (with Frédérique Barkoff)Frank Thomas, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, Claude François 3:58
2. "Quand la pluie finira de tomber"  Richard Seff, Daniel Seff 2:59
 Canada 7 inch single (1974)
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Le téléphone pleure" (with Frédérique Barkoff)Frank Thomas, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, Claude François 3:58
2. "Heureusement, tu penses à moi"  Jean-Michel Rivat, Claude François, Simon Shirak 3:30

Foreign versions

 Spain 7 inch single (1975)
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Llora el teléfono[3]"  Frank Thomas, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, Claude François 3:58
2. "Chanson populaire"  Nicolas Skorsky, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre 3:34
 United Kingdom 7 inch single (1975)
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Tears on the Telephone[4]" (with Kathy Barnet)Frank Thomas, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, Claude François  
2. "Hello Happiness"  Roger Greenaway, Les Reed  
 Italy 7 inch single (1975)
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Piange... il telefono[5]" (with Francesca Guadagno)Frank Thomas, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, Claude François  
2. "L'avventura"  Domenico Modugno  
 Brazil 7 inch single (1975)
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "O telefone chora[6]" (with Márcio José and Liriel)Frank Thomas, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, Claude François  
2. "Que será, que será, que será?"  Márcio José  

See also

References

  1. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/1/1976-01-17
  2. "Claude François - Le Téléphone Pleure". Discogs.
  3. Spanish adaptation : Gefingal
  4. English adaptation : Howard Barnes
  5. Italian adaptation : Domenico Modugno
  6. Portuguese adaptation : Márcio José


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