L'été Indien - Joe Dassin Live - 1975 - English Subtitles

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L'ÉTÉ INDIEN:
L'été indien" is originally a song written by the Italian composer and hitmaker Toto Cutugno. In 1975, he composed a song, "Africa", for his group called Albatros.
Joe Dassin rearranges the song and asks his adapters Claude Lemesle and Pierre Delanoë for a text. The two lyricists isolate themselves for a weekend in Deauville, where the glorious weather reminds them of the Indian summer. They imagine a text that nostalgically tells an old love story against a backdrop of fall colors from the American East Coast. Jacques Plait and his singer find the theme of the Indian summer and the allusions to the unknown painter Marie Laurencin noncommercial, but Claude Lemesle convinces them to precisely keep these aspects mysterious enough to make the public dream.
This song is the biggest hit of his career. He sold more than 800,000 copies in France and almost two million worldwide. The title was released in twenty-five countries and will subsequently be translated into several languages: German under the title Septemberwind, Italian under the title L'estate di San Martin, Spanish under the title Aun vivo para el amor (Solo puedo mirar atras) , English as Indian Summer.
JOE DASSIN:
Joseph Ira Dassin; 5 November 1938 – 20 August 1980) was an American–French singer-songwriter and actor. He was the son of film director Jules Dassin.
Dassin was born in New York City to American film director Jules Dassin (1911–2008) and Béatrice Launer (1913–1994),[1] a New York-born violinist, who after graduating from a Hebrew High School in the Bronx studied with the British violinist Harold Berkely at the Juilliard School of Music. His father was of Ukrainian-Jewish and Polish-Jewish extraction, his maternal grandfather was an Austrian-Jewish immigrant, who arrived in New York with his family at age 11.
Dassin lived in New York City and Los Angeles until his father fell victim to the Hollywood blacklist in 1950, at which time his family moved to Europe.
Between the ages of ten and fifteen Dassin changed schools eleven times. He studied at, among other places, the International School of Geneva and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, and finished his secondary education in Grenoble. Dassin moved back to the United States, where he attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1957 to 1963, winning an undergraduate Hopwood Award for fiction in 1958 and earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1961 and a Master of Arts in 1963, both in Anthropology.
Career
Moving to France, Dassin worked as a technician for his father and appeared as an actor in supporting roles, among others in three movies directed by his father, including Topkapi (1964) in which he played the role of Josef.
On 26 December 1964, Dassin signed with CBS Records, making him the first French-language singer to be signed with an American record label.
By the early 1970s, Dassin's songs were at the top of the charts in France, and he became immensely popular there. He recorded songs in German, Spanish, Italian, and Greek, as well as French and English. Amongst his most popular songs are "Les Champs-Élysées" (Originally "Waterloo Road") (1969), "Salut les amoureux" (originally "City of New Orleans") (1973), "L'Été indien" (1975), "Et si tu n'existais pas" (1975), and "À toi" (1976).