Love can move mountains

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I wish

I drove all night

The recording of this classic by Céline was produced by Peer Astrom and Vito Luprano.
The original version is recorded by Cindy Lauper on her album A night to remember aired in 1989. A version by Roy Orbison, of whom the song was originally aimed, is aired in 1992.

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My heart will go on

(Theme song in "Titanic")
"In April (1997), Celine remembers, composer James Horner came to Las Vegas and proposed a project to Rene : 'I'm writing the music for a movie about the Titanic'. The three of us met in a suite of the Caesar's Palace. Horner played My Heart Will Go On on the piano. On his Read more... back, I was making signs to Rene, pouts, I was looking sternly at him, so that he understood I didn't want this song : I really didn't want to record it. First, I didn't like the song, he couldn't sing right, it wasn't really alright on the piano at the moment, I had already performed several songs for movies, one more? We wanted to take a break, another project? More especially as director James Cameron didn't want any songs for his movie. We weren't in the middle of the song that Rene was pretending not to understand me. When Horner turned towards us, he said : 'In one month, we will be in New York, at the Hit Factory, where Celine records her new album Let's Talk About Love. If you give us an orchestral track, she could make a model, then Cameron could listen to it. It would be, I think, the best way to convince him.'"
"One month later, James Horner was at the Hit Factory in New York with his orchestral track. He told me with many details the story of the movie. I began to feel the atmosphere of the movie... There is a scene with a couple of old people who are hugging, who are seeing the water come in from under the door and who are deciding to go to bed, and who are going to die together... And there is also a mother who is singing lullabies to her children, and she knows that they're all going to die... And then I imagined it. And on that day, I wasn't totally in top shape vocally and usually I don't take caffeine when I sing, but here it was a model 'no things to worry' so I took a black coffee with two sugars... Then I sang, there were all the Sony team, Tommy Mottola, John Doelp, Vito Luprano... Everybody knew, since the first take, that we had a big hit."
"But the model, the coffee and the two sugars remained the original, I never recorded the song again : the model is on the disc. They built the orchestration with my voice... I never recorded it again, so much so that the tremolo is faster on the song than on stage, than usual, because of the caffeine."

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What a wonderful world

(March 2003 - November 2004 / January 2005 - ...)
Louis Armstrong recorded this song in 1968, it was his last big hit, topping the charts in the UK. He recorded it once more in 1970.

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Je t'aime encore (Version française)

(October 2003 - 2004)
Céline also sang an english version of this song on her One Heart album.
"I'm near her, Jean-Jacques Goldman reveals about the studio version from the album 1 Fille & 4 Types, and I tell her sentences by sentences... so I tell her "tadadadada" and Read more... she does "tadada..." at once after... Well, its happens that then it is this voice we kept so there was a huge work to remove me, my voice, or my whisperings just before... and, if you listen well the very beginning of the song, we still hear a little bit my voice before, so this song, she sings it while she entirely discovers it!"
Note that Nadia Comaneci, whom Celine has always admired very much, appears on the videoclip, as well as Miss Quebec 2003 Marie-Andree Poulin.

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A new day has come

(December 2004 - ...)
Against a finespun sweep of strings and piano, the sparkling title track from the album A New Day Has Come is among the most delicate, understarted songs Céline has recorded.
"For me, this represents the birth of my child, Céline says. Nothing can ever come close to that. But it can Read more... mean different things for anyone who has to find strength again. I think it's very positive."

God bless America

(July 4, 2004)
On September 21, 2001, Celine performed this song for the first time at America : A Tribute To Heroes.
On January 26, 2003, Celine Dion performed the song God bless America at the Super Bowl.

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Happy Xmas (War is over)

(December 2004)
"It was that incredible song, Celine tells in 1999, and maybe, you know, the world changed, but the feelings didn't change, I mean: human beings, true values and love, and sharing all that is still the most important thing, caring. So, when I heard that song, it became one of my favorite of Read more... all times, so when I was recording a Christmas album, of course I kept this song in mind and I really wanted to do it. And I'm glad I had the chance to record that song, it's really one of my favorite, it's very touching, it means a lot, it's actually an incredible incredible Christmas song!"

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In some small way

(January 2005)

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Pour que tu m'aimes encore

(February 2005 - ...)
It is Celine's favorite song on the album D'Eux. Jean-Jacques Goldman wrote it late in 1994.
"Pour que tu m'aimes encore, Celine tells, the first song heard, the first recorded, at once reminded me L'hymne à l'amour by Edith Piaf. The same subject, the Read more... same structure, the same woman consumed by love. It is a hymn to wild, possessed, possessive, definitive love, as mine... We knew while we were recording that now it will be part of my life."

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All the way

(Virtual duet with Frank Sinatra)
"All the songs are dear to me, Celine reveals, but perhaps one song has an extra special place in my heart. You may already know that Rene and I have our special song... like most couples do. Ours is All the way, made famous by Mr. Frank Sinatra. You can imagine what a great honor and thrill Read more... it was for me to be able to record this song with the amazing voice of Mr. Sinatra. What he gave to music will always be timeless... and I feel privileged to be able to pay him a tribute in my own little way. All the way... sums up the way my husband and I feel about each other, and in a different way it describes a feeling that I have when I think about all the love and support that's been given to me by many dedicated people who have made all of this incredible journey possible."
The original version by Frank Sinatra is the theme song from 'The Joker Is Wild' and won the Oscar of the Best Song in 1958.

River deep, mountain high

This song was originally recorded by Ike & Tina Turner in 1966.

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