Tout va très bien madame la marquise - Ray Ventura - 1935 - With English Subtitles.

@alinecunio6864 This song is part of a playlist: Best French Songs - 1930 - English Subtitles TOUT VA TRÈS BIEN, MADAME LA MARQUISE: “Tout va très bien, madame la marquise” (Everything is fine Madame la Marquise) is a song from 1935, words and music by Paul Misraki, it is one of the great successes of the orchestra of “Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens” Everything is fine Madame la Marquise has become a proverbial expression to designate an attitude of blindness in the face of a hopeless situation and a clumsy attempt to hide its reality. The theme has been circulating throughout Europe since the Middle Ages. Its creation results, according to Paul Misraki with a first version: “Everything is fine, the life of a composer”, with the failure of a first evening of tour of “Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens”, in Nîmes, in the south from France. The atmosphere was gloomy, and the orchestra could not warm the room. The devastated musicians were all looking for an idea to revive the show. It was Coco Aslan who seems to have suggested the idea of the “sketch with the Scottish Lady“. Paul Misraki then set to work, quickly found the “start” (the first notes), then composed all night, with a camembert as a companion, which he ate whole. In the early morning, the composer allowed himself a final fantasy: the “bridge“ which begins with “an incident, a stupidity...“, a complete break with the rhythm and the atmosphere of the song until then. And in the evening, it was a triumph. The title of the song has been used in various expression “Everything is going very well, Monsieur Herriot” was used at the time of the strikes of June 1936. It will then be “Everything is going very well, Monsieur Mussolini. And finally: All is well my Führer on Radio-Londres. Paul Misraki will continue all his life to have difficulty assuming this dazzling success (he was 28 years old, and the song was made in one night), several of his writings mentioning this song as an “incident“, refering to the words of the song: “Un incident, une bêtise,”( An incident, a foolishness) RAYMOND VENTURA: Raymond Ventura, known as Ray Ventura, born April 16, 1908 in Paris (France) and died March 30, 19791 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), was a French composer, also musical arranger, conductor, music publisher and producer. cinema, famous for its sketch orchestra and its shows with its “Collégiens“. He is a student in the elementary classes of the Lycée Molière (Paris). Still a high school student, Raymond Ventura began by setting up a jazz orchestra with friends from the Janson-de-Sailly high school. Albert Cuisin lends his premises so that the young formation can practice. Ray Ventura plays for the first time in public during social receptions. Influenced by the orchestras of Paul Whiteman in the United States, the Comedian Harmonists in Germany and Jack Hylton in Great Britain, Raymond Ventura founded one of the first sketch orchestras in France, “Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens“. In 1929, the group performs for some time at the Deauville casino, where it is noticed by one of the administrators of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, which offers young people a return cruise to New York, for the price of their participation in on-board entertainment. The group perform at Bobino, The Olympia, The Casino de Paris during the early 30’s and Ray Ventura played a significant role in promoting jazz in France. He open his own cabaret on the Champs-Élysées in 1936, while his song written by Misraki Tout va très bien Madame la marquise was on everyone’s lips.