Word: albums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colette has just completed a French folklore album, is eying the movies. But she has not permanently abandoned her friend Irma. This week she begins a tour of France, Switzerland and Belgium, and next fall she will go with the show to England to tell Londoners all about the fille d'amour from Coulaincourt who knows that true love is never up for sale...
Last summer, when he and his wife were living mostly on Tootsie Rolls, Jimmie wangled a spot on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, won a recording contract. He has just finished his second LP album, is talking about his first movie-and is still unable to read a note of music. He learns most of his songs by memorizing what comes blaring over the car radio...
...with his gutty-voiced, absinthe-flavored readings of such items as See You Later, Alligator (T'es pas tombé sur la tête), and You Left in Your Bobby Socks (T'es partie en socquettes). Now Atlantic has recorded the best of Mac on an album entitled Mac-Kac and His French Rock & Roll. The familiar beat is there, but the lyrics provide a startling illustration of just how differently they order these things in France. Sample: "The Father Superior with haggard eye and gnashing teeth left the refectory screaming: 'I'll kill...
...hands. Long, lovingly detailed, filled with philosophic asides, many of the tales proved too stupefying even for the resolutely highbrow listeners of the BBC's Third Programme, where these dramatizations were originally heard. Tightly edited, translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill (TIME, Aug. 11, 1952), this first album contains the roll call of the Pilgrims in the Prologue, and the tales of the Monk, the Nun's Priest, the Reve, the Manciple and the Man of Law-a cross section of stories gay and gloomy, garrulous and risqué. A fine item for a long winter...
brain . . . You hit him with an album of Hindemith...