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On the next site it says that Dorival Caymmi's "O Mar", which he recorded in 1940, could very well be the inspiration for Charles Trenet's "La Mer" (1946).
Caymmi's 1954 version of "O Mar" was very close in arrangement with John Hartford's "Gentle on my Mind".
Listen (after 1 minute and 15 seconds) in the next Youtube.
http://daniellathompson.com/Texts/Investigations/O_Mar.htm
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