The Good Life (1962 song)

"The Good Life" (originally "La Belle Vie" in French) is a song by Sacha Distel with French lyrics by Jean Broussolle, published in 1962. It was featured in the movie The Seven Deadly Sins.

"The Good Life"
Single by Tony Bennett
from the album I Wanna Be Around...
B-side"Spring in Manhattan"
ReleasedApril 1963
RecordedDecember 19, 1962[1]
StudioColumbia 30th Street Studio, New York City[2]
GenrePop
Length2:14
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon[3]
Producer(s)Ernest Altschuler
Tony Bennett singles chronology
"I Wanna Be Around"
(1962)		 "The Good Life"
(1963)		 "True Blue Lou"
(1963)

Tony Bennett recording

The song is best known in the English-speaking world via a 1963 recording by Tony Bennett with English lyrics by Jack Reardon. In the US, it was a number 18 hit on the U.S. pop singles chart, and number 7 on the Middle-Road Singles chart.[4] Outside the US, "The Good Life" rose to number 27 on the UK Singles Chart.[5] "The Good Life" became one of Bennett's staple songs, and was featured on four of his top-selling albums, including 1994's MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett and 2006's Duets: An American Classic, the latter featuring Billy Joel. Bennett also named his 1998 autobiography after the song. As of 2009, he still performs the song live and often jokingly dedicates it to Britney Spears.

Other recorded versions
  • A version recorded by Tony Orlando was subsequently released on Bell Records.
  • In 1973, the song was released by Julius La Rosa as a single 45 record on vinyl, with "Save Me a Song" on side B, on RCA's Victor label. It became a hit at Metromedia radio station WNEW, 1130 on the AM dial, in New York City. And Julius La Rosa was also a disc jockey there, playing his own song. This version of the song had slightly altered lyrics. Uniquely arranged and conducted by Hal Massimino, the biggest change was in the main lyric, where "goodbye" was replaced with "hello."
  • The Drifters (1965)
  • Sacha Distel and Dionne Warwick (2004)

References
  1. http://jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Bennett/Bennett60.php
  2. The Good Life at AllMusic
  3. The Good Life at AllMusic
  4. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 31.
  5. "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com. Retrieved December 3, 2020.


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