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Claudia's note from the CD liner: |
I've
collected the songs on this album during the last twenty years. I learned
LA VIE EN ROSE on the guitar in the early 70's.
I was still doing folk music then, but I found that as long as I could
do LA VIE EN ROSE, I'd get a gig somewhere. The most recent edition, MES
JEUNES ANNÉES, came to me fortuitously. I had heard the
song but I couldn't find the sheet music. Then my parents took a trip
to France and stayed with a choir director who gave it to them. It's my
favorite on the album. I was so moved I had to add my own English lyrics.
I became enraptured with dramatic numbers like L'ACCORDÉONISTE,
MON LÉGIONNAIRE and NON,
JE NE REGRETTE RIEN after listening to The Edith Piaf Deluxe Set,
a gift from my father upon my return to Philadelphia after living in Paris.
As for Jacques Brel, I had always loved his music. In the 70's, I was
singing in a club in Philadelphia when Shay Duffin, an actor and director, heard
me. A few months later, he called and asked me to do a Canadian production
of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Although
not from the show, the plaintive NE ME QUITTE PAS
is probably Brel's best known song in the U.S. My first accompanist, an
erstwhile French professor, introduced me to several other songs on this album.
SYRACUSE,
written in 1962, was a big Montand hit. Most people think of Paris
as the city of dreams, but in this song, a Parisian muses on the exotic places
he'd like to see- Easter Island, the Gardens of Babylon- before he grows old.
He also made me learn the lilting SUR LES QUAIS
DU VIEUX PARIS and UN JOUR TU VERRAS, which
is from a film called Les Secrets D'Alcove, which one of my French dictionaries
translates as "Marital Intimacies." The prolific French singer and composer
Charles Trenet is represented by three songs. Bruce Coyle and I decided
to do his best known song, QUE RESTE-T-IL DE NOS AMOURS
("I Wish You Love") in both English and French. VOUS
QUI PASSEZ SANS ME VOIR, less well-known in this country, also speaks
of unrequited love. In MES JEUNES ANNÉES,
Trenet recalls his childhood in the Pyrenees. PARLEZ-MOI
D'AMOUR, an international hit written in 1930, was made popular by the
beautiful Parisian chanteuse and cabaret owner, Lucienne Boyer. HARMONIE
DU SOIR comes from Leo Ferre's album Ferre Chante Baudelaire.
Most of these songs are part of my cabaret act. During a rehearsal, Bruce
commented that he kept hearing a cello behind my voice. Nancy, a friend
since childhood, agreed to bring her artistry to this CD.
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