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BEC 5772227
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Nineteen classic songs by "la Muse de Saint Germain," many recorded with Jacques Canetti, the producer responsible for her debut. Includes "Si tu t'imagines," "Sous le ciel de Paris," "Les feuilles mortes," "Rue des Blancs-Manteaux," and more. Born in 1927, Juliette Gréco became well known to many of the artists and writers working in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, including Jean-Paul Sartre and Boris Vian. Her dark beauty and boldness seduced her circle of intellectuals. In 1950, Jacques Canetti produced her first record and arranged for concerts around the world. Si Tu T'Imagines collects highlights from the career of this legend of chanson.
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DOY 682LP
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"By the time this album was recorded in 1962 at the A.B.C. club in Paris, French chanteuse, Juliette Greco was well on her way to becoming a household name in France. However, Greco embodied a new kind of singer -- not only young and beautiful, but also intellectual and bohemian. She was a good friend of the great existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sarte, and famously had a torrid love affair with Miles Davis (when the 23-year-old trumpet player first visited Paris in 1949). Every French boy wanted to marry her and every French girl wanted to be her. She embodied freedom, revolution, sex, and eventually became a cultural icon for the 68ers in France. Like Gainsbourg, she sang about the world she knew -- a world inhabited by drunks, pimps, and prostitutes, broken dreams and lost innocence, where tragedy is always lurking just below the surface." Comes on 180 gram vinyl.
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