"Allez-Vous-En" is a popular

Popular music

Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...

 song. It was written by Cole Porter

Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...

 and was published in 1953

1953 in music

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The song was featured in the musical Can-Can

Can-Can (musical)

Can-Can is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and a book by Abe Burrows. The story concerns the showgirls of the Montmartre dance halls during the 1890s....

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A recording by Kay Starr

Kay Starr

Kay Starr is an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1940s and 50s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became #1 hits in the 1950s, "Wheel of Fortune" and "The Rock And Roll Waltz"....

 was the biggest hit. This recording was released by Capitol Records

Capitol Records

Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...

 as catalog number

Catalog numbering systems for single records

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 2464. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on June 27, 1953 and lasted 9 weeks on the chart, peaking at #13. This was one side of a two-sided hit; the flip side was "Half a Photograph

Half a Photograph

"Half a Photograph" is a popular song.The music was written by Harold Stanley, the lyrics by Bob Russell. The song was published in 1952 ....

," an even bigger hit.

Phrase meaning

The phrase Allez-vous-en is French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 phrase meaning Go away directed to one or more persons to whom one is not familiar. Its more familiar translation is va t´en. The phrases are formed using the reflexive

Reflexive verb

In grammar, a reflexive verb is a verb whose semantic agent and patient are the same. For example, the English verb to perjure is reflexive, since one can only perjure oneself...

 conjugated

Grammatical conjugation

In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection . Conjugation may be affected by person, number, gender, tense, aspect, mood, voice, or other grammatical categories...

 form of the verb aller which means to go, and the object pronoun en.