The Good Life | |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Tony Bennett |
Album: | I Wanna Be Around... |
B-Side: | Spring in Manhattan |
Released: | April 1963 |
Recorded: | December 19, 1962[1] |
Studio: | Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City |
Genre: | Jazz |
Length: | 2:14 |
Label: | Columbia |
Producer: | Ernest Altschuler |
Chronology: | Tony Bennett |
Prev Title: | I Wanna Be Around |
Prev Year: | 1962 |
Next Title: | True Blue Lou |
Next Year: | 1963 |
"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 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.[2] Outside the US, "The Good Life" rose to number 27 on the UK Singles Chart.[3] "The Good Life" became one of Bennett's staple songs, and was featured on four of his top-selling albums, including 1994's and 2006's , the latter featuring Billy Joel. Bennett also named his 1998 autobiography after the song. He continued to perform the song live and did so at his final concerts, at Radio City Music Hall, aged 95.
Chart (1963) | Peak position | |
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UK Singles (The Official Charts Company) | 27 | |
US Billboard Easy Listening | 7 | |
US Billboard Hot 100 | 18 |