Chuck Berry You Never Can Tell ( Cest La Vie) ( Pulp Fiction)

You Never Can Tell, also known as C est La Vie or Teenage Wedding, is a song written by Chuck Berry. It was composed in the early 1960s while Berry was in federal prison for violating the Mann Act. Released in 1964 on the album St. Louis to Liverpool and the followup single to Berry s final Top Ten hit of the 1960s: No Particular Place to Go, Pulp Fiction The song briefly became popular again after the 1994 release of the film Pulp Fiction, directed and cowritten by Quentin Tarantino. The music was played for a Twist contest in which Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) competed (and were the only contestants shown in the film). The music added an evocative element of sound to the narrative and Tarantino said that the song s lyrics of Pierre and Mademoiselle gave the scene a uniquely 50s French New Wave dance sequence feel