Author: Brel, Jacques

Format: Best of

Release Date: 06-11-1996

Details: Product Description 2 Best Of CDs Amazon.ca Disappeared in 1978, Jacques Brel is still a huge record seller. His compilations flourish regularly and always reach new heights. This double disc did not fail to rule. It must be said that it is full of hits that can be found in a certain chronology. From the famous "Grand Jacques" released in the mid-1950s, to the "Marquises" of 1977, we cross a masterpiece of French song in thirty-seven titles. From the 1950s, the compiler retained: "When we only have love" (1956), "I don't know" (1958), "La Valse à mille temps" (1959). The yé-yé years followed (1960-1965), paradoxically, the most creative decade: "Les Flamandes" (1960), "Ne me quitte pas" (1960), "Le Plat Pays" (1962), "Rosa" (1962), "Madeleine" (1962), "Les Bourgeois" (1962), "Brussels" (1962), "Les Vieux" (1963), "Mathilde" (1964), "Les Bonbons" (1964) in two versions, "Jef" (1964), "Next" (1964), "Amsterdam" (1964), "These people" (1965). After saying goodbye to the Olympia in 1967, Brel preferred musical comedy to recital. Indeed, after "La Chanson des vieux amants" (1967), "Vesoul" (1969)..., he adapted "L'Homme de la Mancha" of which he sang "La Quête" ("Impossible Dream"), sharing the title with Dario Moreno, planned on stage by his side. After a few years in the cinema and the Pacific Islands, the greatest of the Jacques of the song goes out in the middle of the flowers. --AB

UPC: 731453171121

EAN: 0731453171121

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood