Autumn Leaves (1945 song)

"Les Feuilles mortes"
Song by Jacques Prévert and Joseph Kosma, English lyrics by Johnny Mercer
English title"Autumn Leaves"
Written1945
Released1946 by Enoch & Cie (Enoch (édition musicale))
GenreChanson, pop
Composer(s)Joseph Kosma
Lyricist(s)Jacques Prévert (French), Johnny Mercer (English)

"Autumn Leaves" is a popular song based on a French song "Les Feuilles mortes" ("The Dead Leaves") composed by Joseph Kosma in 1945. The original lyrics were written by Jacques Prévert in French, and the English lyrics were by Johnny Mercer. An instrumental version by pianist Roger Williams was a number one best-seller in the US Billboard charts of 1955.

"Autumn Leaves" has become a jazz standard and it is one of the most recorded songs by jazz musicians. More than a thousand commercial recordings are known to have been released by mainstream and jazz musicians.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Autumn Leaves". AllMusic. Archived from the original on July 12, 2019.
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