Tombe la neige (English: “The snow falls”) is a French language song written and sung by Belgian-Italian singer Salvatore Adamo. The song was released in 1963 and became an international hit and one of his best-known songs.
Covers in Different Languages
In 1965, Croatian mezzosoprano Anica Zubović recorded Pada sneg, with lyrics adapted into Serbocroatian by Ildi Ivanji and in arrangement by Aleksandar Subota, as a part of EP Ivan Ivanović.
In 1965, Turkish singer Ajda Pekkan had her first recording, “Her Yerde Kar Var”, an arrangement of Salvatore Adamo’s “Tombe la Neige” by Fecri Ebcioğlu.
In Germany, Alexandra had a hit with the German version “Grau zieht der Nebel”
In 1968, Emil Gorovets recorded it in Russian as “Padaet sneg” (in Russian И падает снег) on his album Vdali.
In 2010, Adamo recorded it as a duet with Mario Barravecchia in Italian based on Adamo’s Italian rendition “Cade la neve”. It appears in a collection album Intimo – Le più belle canzoni italiane
In 2018 the character ‘Adamo’ in the movie Patser (gangsta in english) made by Adil El Arbi and Billal Fallah was related to “Tombe la neige” and the actor was also from Belgian-Italian origin despite he played a moroccan-italian gangster .
In 2011, the Turkish-Albanian pop singer Candan Erçetin sang her song “Her Yerde Kar Var” in Turkish and French.
Tombe La Neige (1963)
Tombe la neige
Tu ne viendras pas ce soir
Tombe la neige
Et mon coeur s’habille de noir
Ce soyeux cortege
Tout en larmes blanches
L’oiseau sur la branche
Pleure le sortilege
Tu ne viendras pas ce soir
Me crie mon désespoir
Mais tombe la neige
Impassible manege
Tombe la neige
Tu ne viendras pas ce soir
Tombe la neige
Tout est blanc de désespoir
Triste certitude
Le froid et l’absence
Cet odieux silence
Blanche solitude
Tu ne viendras pas ce soir
Me crie mon désespoir
Mais tombe la neige
Impassible manege
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