EVA BUSCH - Il ne faut pas briser un rêve

This is in my opinion the best recording of Eva Busch... It is a great song, written by Jean Jal. She is accompanied by the acclaimed Wal-Berg and his orchestra... She sings "Don't destroy your dreams, even if they seem silly"... A song with special meaning at the date of its recording (Oct. 1940). It is such a powerful interpretation that this clip is no slideshow. There is just a pic of Eva and her record. Let her voice tell the story...

SEE VIDEO RESPONSE for the B-side : "Le Clocher de mon coeur".

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[nitrate6971]

Eva is my Euro singing goddess, but there are lots of things in her bio I wish I knew more about--her spell in the USA in the 30s, her politics with her Red husband, the time after getting out Ravensbruck when the Germans made her sing for their troops, and her later years when she worked with Bing Crosby. Little about her in the English language. I wish I knew more.

[Leotaurus1975]

Thank you for your comment! Indeed, very little info is available on Eva Busch. She was the subject of a documentary for the Franco-German Arte network ca 20 years ago. However I have never seen it. I only know she wasn't happy about it.

[tychaton08]

Merci!

[Gydinglight12]

Supposedly Eva was the illegitimate daughter of Richard Wagner's grandson. There is a photo of Eva, probably in her later years after the War, and I swear that she looks a little like Richard Wagner. Was her treatment in Ravensbruck possibly lightened by Nazi knowledge that she was of Wagner blood? A website of the memories of some women at Ravensbruck has a bit by a lady who remembered that someone was sending Eva enough money for her to always have money to pay for food at the camp canteen.

[parlantia]

Divine Eva ! Quelle merveilleuse chanson ! Et quelle voix sublime, à la fois langoureuse et suave, riche de délicates vibrations ! Eva restera unique et inégalée. Cet enregistrement de 1940, en français, s'impose, sans contredit, comme un chef- d'oeuvre insurpassable. Puisse-t-il sortir du gouffre de l'oubli pour rayonner à nouveau sur les temps futurs qui en auront bien besoin !

[djmusicjac]

we must not forget the resistance songs most important in ww2

[Fantasyalife]

Merci, il y avait si longtemps... <3

[isis781]

Quel bonheur de retrouver cette chanson .

[Meloliviana]

Je suis amoureuse de la chanson, là.

[tyjeffries]

What a gorgeous warm voice. Love her. A new favourite! x

[Gydinglight12]

A website with the biographies of a number of French singers says that Eva recorded about 400 sides, but most of them have been lost. One of her big fans was Goebbels, who let her records continue being played on radio while she was in prison, but they were announced under false names.