JEAN CONSTANTIN (1923-1997) AUTOGRAPH MUSIC... - Lot 113 - Lucien Paris

JEAN CONSTANTIN (1923-1997) AUTOGRAPH MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS OF THE SONG "MON MANÈGE À MOI Jean-Constantin, author - Norbert Glanzberg, composer. 1957. - ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN AUTOGRAPH SCORE OF ALL INSTRUMENTS. Black and red felt pens on a two page sheet. Titled "Manège". 44,7 x 35 cm. - PART OF AN ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN SCORE OF ALL THE INSTRUMENTS. Black felt pen on one side of a cut-out cut out. Glued on strong paper. 13.5 x 23 cm. - DRAFT OF ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN SCORE OF ALL INSTRUMENTS. Pencil, with annotations in coloured pencil coloured pencils, red felt pen, on a two-page sheet. Annotations in pencil "perhaps a little heavy", "see octave writing record J. MORGAN", "1 whole chorus sings alone on the piano", etc., erasures, corrections in coloured pencil, red felt pen and the mention "Jean Constantin" in pencil. 40.5 x 31.5 cm. - ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN AUTOGRAPH SCORE OF ALL THE INSTRUMENTS. Pencil, with annotations in coloured pencil on a two-page sheet. Pencil annotations "brass response", coloured pencil annotation "a limonaire without shade", annotation in red marker: "You make my head spin", "I'd go around the - " etc. 40.5 x 32 cm. - DRAFT OF ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN SCORE OF ALL INSTRUMENTS. Pencil, on two sheets in seven pages (1, 2, 3, 4, 4bis, 5, and unnumbered). Two annotations in pencil "for the release only play the 2nd time", annotations in black felt pen. - ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN SCORE DRAFT OF ALL INSTRUMENTS. Pencil, in one sheet of four pages numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, one sheet of two pages numbered 5, 8, one sheet of two pages numbered 6, 7, one sheet Page 1 titled "MANEGE" in pencil. The pages contain the annotations in pencil "my The pages contain the annotations in pencil "my ride is you", "I'm always at the party", "when you take me in your arms", "I would go around the... ", "you're my ride you", "Oh yes, let's talk about the Earth", "Who does the Earth think she is", "My word, she's the only one on Earth", "She's the only one who can do so much "But we've got no problem", "Because we love each other for life", "And if we didn't even have a life", "We would love each other We would love each other anyway", "You make my head spin", etc. Instructions in pencil. Some additions in coloured pencil. - 2nd MANUSCRITE MUSICAL SCORE OF ALL THE INSTRUMENTS. Ink, on one sheet of four pages, the first annotated "MANEGE" in colored pencil, the second titled "2nd final score", annotations in pencil "End of ride (valid for for the entry and for the exit)". PROVENANCE. Estate of Jean Constantin. Many legendary versions tell the story of the genesis of this song. We give you the one brought back to our house this year by Serge Glanzberg, son of Norbert Glanzberg, and François Constantin, son of Jean Constantin, according to the details given to them by their respective fathers. One day in 1957, Norbert Glanzberg recorded in a studio, with a few musicians, on the A side of a record, the demo of a melody for a film commissioned by a for a film commissioned by a director. Jacques Tati, who was there for another reason, was impressed by the music and told Glanzberg that he wanted to see him again. Glanzberg had a demo of a rumba recorded on the B side of the record for Yves Montand, for whom he had written Les Grands Boulevards. He had the record sent to Jean Constantin, whom he asked to write a text on the rumba. Later, he was called by Tati, who asked him how much money could be offered to compensate himself and the other director for the loss of the film. director to get back the music he had heard in the studio for his film "Mon oncle". Both men accept a sum of money. Serge Glanzberg bought an apartment in Paris with the money. Later that same year, at three in the morning, Edith Piaf called Glanzberg on the phone and reproached him for not knowing how to to defend your work. "You're a real idiot, you don't know how to sell yourself! Constantin came to see me with a wonderful song, "My Own Ride", which you didn't tell me about. Glanzberg, unaware of Constantin's lyrics, rushed to meet the singer at her home in the middle of the night and discovered that the author had written it over the music recorded on the A side of the record. I'll go round the world / It wouldn't go round any more than that / The earth isn't round enough / To make me as dizzy as you". He's as won over as Piaf