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...most marketable exports, is queen of the lemon-flavored café song known as fado. (Fado literally means fate and is always cruel.) Amalia's new album, called the Soul of Portugal (Columbia), contains a dozen fados (Corner of Sin, Useless Angel), similar in mood to Edith Piaf's chansons but stamped with Portuguese rhythms and Amalia's tangy timber...
...conjugal disenchantment. Aznavour has none of the rakish charm of Maurice Chevalier, the ebullient high spirits of Charles Trenet, or the blatant sex appeal of Yves Montand. But he has two qualities that none of them possess with the same intensity-fire and sorrow. He was trained by Edith Piaf, and if one closes one's eyes, one can hear her pain as well as her phrasing in his voice. Aznavour's notes are wounds into which the salt of life has been rubbed...
...time or another have popped to the top of the hit parade in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Rumania and Switzerland. At her home base, Paris, where the tousled blonde is possessively known as "La Petulante Petula," she has collected the Grand Prix du Disque (just like Edith Piaf and Yves Montand before her), and earlier this year got the Bravos du Music Hall, France's annual award to the female show-business success of the year...
...DEFINITIVE PIAF (Capitol; 2 LPs) consists of 22 fine performances, including La Vie en Rose and La Goualante de Pauvre Jean. Piaf celebrates the joys of love in a voice already pregnant with sorrow and then suffers gallantly the heartbreak she knew was coming. After all, "without a lover, one is nothing...
...they cleaned the trash from the cellars of the Philips record-company offices in Paris, workmen found a battered box containing 45 master records (78s), pressed between 1940 and 1942 by Chanteuse Edith Piaf, who died a year ago at 47. Made in her prime, before illness and alcohol dulled her voice, the records include melodies, such as Fais-Moi Valser and Le Vagabond, that "the Sparrow" made famous onstage but was miracle," never said a known to Philips have cut. executive. "It's "We a don't know how they got there. Perhaps a technician...