I picked up a Carlos Gardel CD in a local chazza the other day and for the princely sum of 50p I might add; and a very fine buy it is proving to be. I thought I'd post Je Te Dirai', which even with my rudimentary skills in the language I realised was French, and thought it would grace just about any French Wednesday, so why not this one.
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Siobhan Wilson is Scottish but she sings often in French and here is a new one from her: 'Quand la vie Fait Mal'.
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More gypsy guitarists needed...
Titi Robin & Mehdi Nassouli - La Femme Idéale
Bonus track:
Sahara • Les Rives de Titi Robin
Titi Robin : Guitare, oud, bouzouq
Sinan Celik : Kaval
Murad Ali : Sarangi
Mehdi Nassouli : Guembri, song
Francis Varis : Accordion
Ze Luis Nascimento : Percussions
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I was listening to a spotify playlist from ten years ago that was created by a few of the contributors of old from around these parts - a couple of hundred great world music tracks - this one caught my attention among the many delights. This is the Léo Ferré song 'Avec Le Temps' performed by Marc Ogeret, posted originally by Lat back in 2012 - anyway it stopped me in my tracks while weeding in the garden on Monday, and I thought I would give it a French Wednesday spin.
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Get the Aznavour stuff from late-ish evening R3.Comment
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Like my holidays, the forum hiatus seems to be drifting into memory, but I don't think French Wednesdays should head on without marking the recent death of Jane Birkin...here's all you need to know about her in one song...at least it was in 1969. Not the greatest singer perhaps, but somehow it doesn't matter.
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My pal went to see American singer, Cécile McLorin Salvant, at an event in the Embra Festival at the weekend and declared Cécile and her band fantastic - he said she performed this song in French, 'Doudou' - here she is performing with a pianist and Djembe player for a mercredi.
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Mercredi, mardi - qui sait?
Charles Trénet's 'La Mer' from "Mr. Bean's Holiday" (HD version) - YouTubeComment
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It's funny, Padraig, but I recall the family being dragged along to that film by my daughter. Nice to see Mr Bean doing a Monsieur Hulot to Trenet's great song. Of course, I was brought up on Bobby Darin's very passable translated version.Originally posted by Padraig View Post
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Edith Piaf died sixty years ago yesterday - I believe there's a programme about Edith and Cocteau on the Radio 4 extra today (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001r84m). What about 'Milord' live on the Ed Sullivan Show in '59 for this particular French Wednesday. It seems Jean Cocteau died the day after Edith, sixty years ago today.
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Cleoma Falcon has popped in this Weds to sing this for us
" She was a Cajun woman just blasting it out." - singer and historian Ann Savoy
Cleoma and her husband made the first known commercial recording of Cajun music. [Arhoolie I think]Comment
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play in the background of whatever you're doing for the next few minutes.
The Three Themes (from Tati's "Mon oncle") · Frank Barcellini
keen eyed readers may detect the hand and ears of Johnny Trunk in this...Comment
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