Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1201363 By Les Baxter. By Jack Lawrence, Marguerite Monnot, and Rene Gustave Rouzaud. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Jazz,Pop,Standards. Score. 3 pages. John Fries #800018. Published by John Fries (A0.1201363). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer. Thanks, John. The Poor People of Paris is the English name of a popular song from France. The original French language song was La goualante du pauvre Jean (The Ballad of Poor John), with music by Marguerite Monnot and words by René Rouzaud. A recording of the tune by Les Baxter's orchestra (Capitol Records catalog number 3336, with the flip side Theme from 'Helen of Troy') was a number-one hit on the Billboard chart in the US in 1956: for four weeks on the Best Sellers in Stores chart, for six weeks on the Most Played by Jockeys and Hot 100 charts, and for three weeks on the Most Played on Jukeboxes chart.
