C'est La Vie

Album: Robbie Nevil (1986)
Charted: 3 2
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Duncan Pain, Mark Holding, Robbie Nevil
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 3

  • Eric Roberts from BrisbaneRoger, her name is Brie Howard-Darling
  • Roger Howard from Parker Colorado Who is the latino backup singer in the video C'est la Vie ?
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 20, 1986, Robbie Nevil performed "C'est La Vie" on Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at #8 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, fours weeks later it would peak at #2* {for 2 weeks} and it spent almost a half-year on the Top 100 {23 weeks}...
    It reached #3 on the United Kingdom's Singles chart...
    Between 1986 and 1991 he had seven records on the Top 100 chart, two made the Top 10, besides "C'est La Vie", his other Top 10 record was "Wot's It To Ya", it peaked at #10 {for 2 weeks} on July 26th, 1987...
    Robbie Nevil, born Robert S. Nevil, celebrated his 59th birthday two months ago on October 2nd {2017}...
    * The two records that kept "C'est La Vie" out of the top spot were "Shake You Down" by Gregory Abbott and "At This Moment" by Billy Vera and the Beaters...
    And from the 'For What It's Worth' department, in 1964 Chuck Berry released his version of "C'est La Vie" as "You Never Can Tell", it reached #14 on both the Top 100 and R&B Singles charts.
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