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Pépée
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Ferré and his wife had accumulated a considerable menagerie of pet animals. During the breakup of this marriage, and whilst Ferré was away from home, his wife disposed of t...
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La Grande Ourse The Great Bear (André Peyron)
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A very lovely and poetic French chanson, composed and performed by André Peyron, in which an adoring father sings about the joys of nature to his young child.
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Le beau Robert (French folksong, XVI century)
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Le Beau Robert Handsome Robert (16th century French folksong, Jacques Douai, 1954)Taken from old vinyl recording which won the Charles Cros prize in 1954. Jacques Douai (1...
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Ma place dans le trafic -- My place in the traffic (Cabrel)
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Francis Cabrel in top form, railing against the discomforts and indignities of modern life. Taken from 'Carte Postale', 1981. For French language students, an object lesson...
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20 Tons of TNT - Flanders and Swann
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A powerful 1960s antiwar song from an unlikely source. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann were best known for their witty, urbane and sometimes sharply ironic songs commenti...
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J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 39: chorusBrich dem Hungrigen dein Br
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This stirring opening chorus, 'Break thy bread for the Hungry', is from a relatively obscure Bach cantata; nonetheless a sublime combination of poetic text and inspired in...
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Trockne Blümen -- Faded Flowers, Schubert
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Great performance of this sad song about a suicide which moves from self-pity and gloom to a sudden surprising burst of joy. Notice how DFD deals with the ending threefold ...
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Madame c'est aujourd'hui -- Madam this is your day
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This French folksong was once the title piece of a 1978 LP record of songs performed by Jacques Douai. It never reappeared in subsequent compilations of his songs, perhaps ...
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Gayan Zay.. In night and rain they go
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Tragic, deeply moving Yiddish ghetto lullaby; sung by a mother to her child and set to the drumbeat of a forced march of deportation during WWII. This is heavy stuff! The r...
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Zog Maran - Brother Marrano
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Martha Schlamme, who fled from Nazi Germany to England, sings a moving Yiddish song about the Sephardim, the Spanish Jews forced to convert to Christianity by the Inquisiti...
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