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L'amour est bleu
"L'amour est bleu" ("Love Is Blue") is a 1967 song by André Popp and Pierre Cour that Vicky Leandros sang for Luxembourg, finishing fourth at Eurovision 1967.
L'amour toujours
L'amour toujours (I'll Fly with You) is a 1999 dance song by Italian DJ Gigi D'Agostino, title track of his album of the same name; in 2024 it was banned from Oktoberfest after far-right chants were set to its melody in Germany.
La Bamba (song)
La Bamba is a Veracruz son jarocho folk song, famously adapted as 1958 rock by Ritchie Valens and taken to No. 1 in the US and UK by Los Lobos' 1987 film version.
La bohème
La bohème is Giacomo Puccini's 1896 four-act opera about Rodolfo and Mimì in Paris's Latin Quarter, premiered at the Turin Teatro Regio under Toscanini, based on Henri Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème and among the world's most performed operas.
La Cage aux Folles (musical)
La Cage aux Folles is a 1983 Jerry Herman–Harvey Fierstein Broadway musical based on Jean Poiret's play, about Saint-Tropez nightclub owners Georges and Albin; it ran 1,761 performances and won six 1984 Tonys including Best Musical.
La campanella
La campanella is Liszt's Étude No. 3 in G-sharp minor from the Grandes études de Paganini, S.141 (1851), based on the rondo of Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, with earlier 1832 and 1838 versions.
La Chanson de Craonne
La Chanson de Craonne is a French anti-militarist soldiers' song of World War I, sung at the front between 1915 and 1917 and banned in France from 1917.
La Chona (song)
"La Chona" is a 1995 norteño song by Los Tucanes de Tijuana about a party-loving woman, famous for the trote dance, stadium anthem status, Metallica's 2024 cover, and Fortnite Festival feature.
La Cucaracha
La Cucaracha, the traditional Spanish-language corrido about a legless cockroach, predates the Mexican Revolution but became famous through revolutionary propaganda verses, the 1916 Canciones Mexicanas print, and the 1934 film Viva Villa.
La fanciulla del West
La fanciulla del West, also The Girl of the Golden West, is Puccini's three-act "American" opera to a Civinini-Zangarini libretto after Belasco's play, premiered at the Met on 10 December 1910 under Toscanini with Destinn, Caruso, and Amato.
La fille du régiment
La fille du régiment, or The Daughter of the Regiment, is an opéra comique by Gaetano Donizetti. It tells the story of a girl raised by a French regiment, featuring Tonio's famous aria.
La gazza ladra
La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie), Rossini's opera semiseria in two acts to a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini after La pie voleuse, premiered at La Scala, Milan, 31 May 1817; Ninetta is condemned for a silver spoon theft actually committed by a magpie, and its snare-drum overture is a concert staple.
La Grange (song)
"La Grange" is a 1973 song by the American rock band ZZ Top, released on Tres Hombres and named for La Grange, Texas, whose Chicken Ranch brothel it sings about.
La Isla Bonita
La Isla Bonita: 1986 Madonna song from True Blue, written with Patrick Leonard and Bruce Gaitsch, originally offered to Michael Jackson; UK number one, US number four.
La La La (Naughty Boy song)
"La La La" is a 2013 single by UK producer Naughty Boy featuring Sam Smith, released via Virgin. It gave both their first UK Number 1, sold 145,000 copies in week one, became the UK's 148th million-selling single, and features a Bolivia-set Wizard of Oz-influenced video.
La Llorona (song)
"La Llorona" ("The Weeping Woman") is a traditional Mexican folk song, best known as a son istmeño from Oaxaca, with hundreds of versions and no known author.
La Marseillaise
La Marseillaise, the national anthem of France, written by Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg in April 1792 as Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin; named after Marseille volunteers, declared national song in 1795 and anthem of the Third Republic in 1879.
La Mer (song)
La Mer is a 1943 French song by Charles Trenet with Léo Chauliac, first recorded by Roland Gerbeau in 1945 and by Trenet in March 1946 (Columbia DF 3096). Its English adaptation Beyond the Sea, notably Bobby Darin's 1959 hit, distinguishes it from Debussy's 1905 orchestral La Mer.
La Perla (Rosalía and Yahritza y su Esencia song)
"La Perla" is a November 2025 song by Rosalía featuring Yahritza y Su Esencia, track 7 of LUX on Columbia Records. A Paquita la del Barrio-inspired diss track over a waltz, it reached #1 in Argentina, #5 Apple Music in Spain, and earned Latin Grammy nominations.
La traviata
La traviata, Verdi's three-act opera on a libretto by Piave after Dumas fils's La Dame aux camélias, premiered at La Fenice, Venice, 6 March 1853, failed, then triumphed in the 1854 revision.
La Vie en rose
La Vie en rose is Édith Piaf's signature 1946 French love song, lyrics by Piaf with music credited to Louiguy, SACEM-deposited November 1945, first recorded 9 October 1946, and made a global standard by Louis Armstrong's 1950 Mack David version.
Lady (Hear Me Tonight)
"Lady (Hear Me Tonight)" is the 2000 debut single by French house duo Modjo, built on a sample of Chic's "Soup for One" and spent nine weeks at number one on Europe's dance chart.
Lady Lady (song)
Lady Lady is a song by Olivia Dean, released in July 2025. It is the lead single from her album, The Art Of Loving, and was written by Dean and Matt Hales.
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (opera)
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Леди Макбет Мценского уезда), Shostakovich's Op. 29 opera after Leskov, premiered Leningrad 1934, condemned by Pravda's "Muddle Instead of Music" in 1936, revived as Katerina Izmailova.
Lady Madonna
Lady Madonna, a 1968 Beatles single credited to Lennon–McCartney and written mainly by Paul McCartney. Bluesy boogie-woogie song inspired by Fats Domino's Blue Monday; UK No. 1, US No. 4; B-side The Inner Light, final Parlophone single.
Lady Marmalade
"Lady Marmalade" is a 1974 funk-soul single by Labelle, written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan, produced by Allen Toussaint in New Orleans, and known for the refrain "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?"; it hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975 and again in the 2001 Moulin Rouge! cover by Aguilera, Pink, Lil' Kim, and Mýa.
Laid (song)
"Laid" is a 1993 song by English band James, title track of the album Laid, produced by Brian Eno. Peaked at 25 in the UK and 61 on the Billboard Hot 100; the band's US breakthrough, later used in American Pie trailers.
Lambada (song)
Lambada, also known as Chorando Se Foi, is Kaoma's 1989 global dance hit sung by Loalwa Braz, an uncredited re-recording of Los Kjarkas' Bolivian song Llorando se fue that sold over four million copies and triggered a famous plagiarism lawsuit.
Land of Hope and Glory
Land of Hope and Glory: English patriotic song setting A.C. Benson's 1902 words to the trio of Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1; a British unofficial anthem, Last Night of the Proms staple, and the US graduation march tune.
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac song)
Landslide, a Stevie Nicks folk rock ballad on Fleetwood Mac's 1975 self-titled album, written in Aspen, Colorado; covered by the Dixie Chicks and Smashing Pumpkins, and a late chart hit via Stranger Things.