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THE MAN WHO PAVED THE WAY TO OTHERS

ALAIN ROBERT | ST-HUBERT,QUEBEC | 11/13/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The singing fool indeed he was when he started in the mid-thirties.The importance of this man can never be overlooked in the history of FRENCH music.The war was coming ,and CHARLES with his witty and often surrealistic songs came to celebrate the beauty of life.MAURICE CHEVALIER and JEAN SABLON had hits with two of his songs:Y A DL'A JOIE and VOUS QUI PASSEZ SANS ME VOIR ,and after that TRENET was on his way and became a big name.What can we say about a song like LA POLKA DU ROI, in which the heroine we learn at the end is in a wax museum?Totally original for its time.Later on ,CHARLES showed his tender side with songs like DOUCE FRANCE and LA MER.This collection has all his early good songs and only a few are missing ,but you can easily find them in double cd collections like A PORTRAIT OF CHARLES TRENET or L'AME DES POETES."