Marie (Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys song)
1969 song by Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys
"Marie" is a song, originally recorded by Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys on their 1969 album The Street Giveth... And The Street Taketh Away. In the same year it was released on the B-side of the single "Can You Dance to It?".
Soon it was adapted into French (under the title "C'est la vie, Lily") by Pierre Delanoë. The French version was released in 1970 by Joe Dassin.
Background and writing
The original was produced by Jimi Hendrix and Cat Mother.
Commercial performance
According to the charts, courtesy of the Centre d'Information et de Documentation du Disque, that U.S. Billboard published in its "Hits of the World" section), the song "C'est la vie Lily" by Joe Dassin reached at least the top 6 in France (in the national [i.e. domestic] singles chart).
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q44009154. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1969 and 1970.
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