There have also been a few excellent covers of "Se Telefonando" over the years, most famously Françoise Hardy's French-language version, "Je Changerais D'Avis":
Lovely video as well. I discovered both versions of this song from the 'Canto Morricone Songbook, Vol. 1' cd, which contains other gems as well. The Divine Comedy also covered this French version when Neil Hannon did his 2 Nights of Chanson at The Cité de la Musique in Paris in September 2008. I was utterly exhausted after walking around Paris all day in ill-fitting boots, and was tired for most of the set, but when he launched into this as the penultimate number it completely turned my evening around, one of those transcendent magical pop moments, and as if it couldn't get any better, and I honestly believed it couldn't, he seguewayed this into "Tonight We Fly", another of the most beautiful songs ever written. Here is from the first of those Paris shows:
A recording of this and other highlights from the very same gig make up the 'Bang Goes The Knighthood' bonus disc . And in 1998, Italian group Delta V did a rather lovely electronic version of the Italian original.
One day I hope to record an English-language version.
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