La voix du bon Dieu
Studio album by
Celine Dion
Released6 November 1981 (1981-11-06)
Recorded1981
StudioSt-Charles
GenrePop
Length28:55
LabelSuper Étoiles
Producer
Celine Dion chronology
La voix du bon Dieu
(1981)		 Céline Dion chante Noël
(1981)
Singles from La voix du bon Dieu
  1. "Ce n'était qu'un rêve"
    Released: 11 June 1981
  2. "La voix du bon Dieu"
    Released: 16 November 1981
  3. "L'amour viendra"
    Released: February 1982

La voix du bon Dieu (meaning The Good Lord's Voice) is the debut French-language studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released on 6 November 1981 by Super Étoiles in Quebec, Canada only.[1] It was preceded by the lead single, "Ce n'était qu'un rêve". The album was produced by René Angélil, Eddy Marnay and Daniel Hétu. It includes six original songs and three covers: Renée Lebas' "Tire l'aiguille", Berthe Sylva's "Les roses blanches" and "L'amour viendra", a French adaptation of Dario Baldan Bembo's "Dolce fiore".

Content

Dion collaborated on this project and all her next early French recordings with Eddy Marnay who wrote songs for Barbra Streisand, Édith Piaf, Nana Mouskouri and Claude François, among others. The album contains Dion's first three singles: "Ce n'était qu'un rêve" (co-written by herself), "La voix du bon Dieu" and "L'amour viendra" (French adaptation of Dario Baldan Bembo's song "Dolce fiore"), as well as two covers: Renée Lebas' "Tire l'aiguille" and Berthe Sylva's "Les roses blanches".

Commercial performance

René Angélil, Dion's manager (later husband) mortgaged his home to start his own record company just to produce her first records. He decided to put out two albums at the same time: La voix du bon Dieu and Céline Dion chante Noël. They sold 30,000 copies in 1981 and would go on to sell about 125,000 copies the following year.[2] La voix du bon Dieu has sold 100,000 copies in total.[3] The album produced two top twenty Quebec singles in "Ce n'était qu'un rêve" and "La voix du bon Dieu" which peaked at number fourteen and eleven, respectively. "Ce n'était qu'un rêve" was also released in France in 1982 as Dion's first single in that country. In 2005, Dion included "Ce n'était qu'un rêve" and "La voix du bon Dieu" on her greatest hits compilation, On ne change pas.

Accolades

In 1982, Dion was nominated for the Félix Award for Newcomer of the Year.

Track listing

Side A
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."La voix du bon Dieu"Eddy Marnay
3:16
2."Au secours"
  • Robert Leroux
  • Pierre Létourneau
Angélil3:27
3."L'amour viendra"
  • Marnay
  • Angélil
4:20
4."Autour de moi"
Angélil2:58
5."Grand maman"
Angélil3:39
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Ce n'était qu'un rêve"
  • T. Dion
  • C. Dion
  • J. Dion
  • Daniel Hétu
  • Angélil
3:47
2."Seul un oiseau blanc"
  • Marnay
  • Hétu
  • Marnay
  • Hétu
4:12
3."Tire l'aiguille"
Angélil2:21
4."Les roses blanches"
  • Charles Louis Pothier
  • Léon Rathier
Angélil5:55
Total length:28:55

Release history

Release dates and formats for La voix du bon Dieu
Region Date Label Format Catalog
Canada 6 November 1981 Super Étoiles LP SPE 4101
Cassette 16-SP 1900
1983 Saisons LP SNS 70000
Cassette SNS 4-70000

References

  1. ↑ "La voix du bon Dieu". Epic Rights, Inc. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  2. ↑ Jenna Glatzer (2005). Céline Dion: For Keeps. Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN 0-7407-5559-5.
  3. ↑ Georges-Herbert Germain (1998). Céline: The Authorized Biography. Translated by David Homel; Fred Reed. Dundurn Press. p. 119. ISBN 1-55002-318-7.
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