Word: trenet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BONTEMPELLI (Pathe). Guy Bontempelli was almost completely unknown even in France until he won the 1966 Grand Prix du Disque. He is more Trenet than Aznavour and has considerable charm...
...amour c'est comme un jour-it dawns, it dies. C'est fini, he cries, with desolate finality. You've Let Yourself Go is an unsparing plaint of 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...