The song describes a fictional wedding between a young couple and the events afterwards, specifically; living in a furnished apartment, buying a family car and taking their honeymoon to New Orleans. The chorus of the song is the five time repeated "'C'est la vie', say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell".
Pulp Fiction: The song became briefly popular for a time after the release of the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. The music was played for a contest at the fictional restaurant Jack Rabbit Slim's in which John Travolta as Vincent Vega and Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace danced for the contest's main prize, as featured above.
Bob Seger recorded this number for his Greatest Hits album, under the title "C'est la Vie."
1 comment:
First, I never knew that was Chuck Berry! Very entertaining and listenable song. One that I probably would have never heard or known about if not for the movie. Unfortunately, that movie resurrected Travolta's career.
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