"Autumn Leaves" by Joseph Kosma "Les Feuilles mortes" 1950

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"Autumn Leaves" is a popular song and jazz standard composed by Joseph Kosma with original lyrics by Jacques Prévert in French, and later by Johnny Mercer in English. An instrumental version by pianist Roger Williams was a #1 best-seller in the USA Billboard charts of 1955. Kosma was a native of Hungary who was introduced to Prévert in Paris. The first commercial recordings of "Les Feuilles mortes" were released in 1950, by Cora Vaucaire [fr] and by Yves Montand. Johnny Mercer wrote the English lyric and gave it the title "Autumn Leaves". The song was recorded steadily throughout the 1950s by leading pop vocalists including Bing Crosby (1950), Nat King Cole (1955), Doris Day (1956), and Frank Sinatra (1957). (Piano solo, Digital Grand Piano) Sebouh Chaparian.