Word: amours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reactionary. French nightclub singers, much easier to remember than French premiers, are possibly better guides to their country's history. There was Lucienne Boyer, who had her heyday in the uncertain years between the wars, a trim but still sizable singer who put across Parlez-Moi d'Amour as if Paris and amour had not changed since the golden nineties (although one line in the song admitted: "Actually, I don't believe any of it"). Then came Edith Piaf, so thin that she was barely visible through the nightclub smoke, with an occasional sentimental number...
...little later and makes such a pretty leg that the fickle fair forgets all about Robert, who takes, in his turn, to the consolations of religion. Soon, though, it's dash away all to the Holy Land, and the drums of war drown out the viole d'amour...
Poulenc: Les Biches (Paris Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Roger Désormière; London). Impudent musical commentary on I'amour, composed for a ballet by one of France's gayest composers. Superbly played...
Takes Two to Tango (Ralph Marterie's Orchestra; Mercury). Vocalist Lola Ameche sings a raucous invitation to I'amour. The rhythm is broadly Latin-American, but the thumping delivery is strictly Yankee...
...chatty little resume of the story of her song in French, followed by a charmingly painful version in English. Then, with a piano tinkling away discreetly on either side, she flashes a white smile and launches her husky cognac contralto into the songs her admirers have come to expect: Amour, April in Portugal, Mile. Hortensia...