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George Brassens was France's finest post-war singer/songwriter, a uniquely and unquantifiably Parisian phenomenon. Armed with an acoustic guitar (at most, late in his career, a string trio) and a deceptively simple baritone voice, he set people whistling in the street lovesongs (risqué and otherwise) of affable idiosyncracy and settings of poets from Villon to Aragon. Why is he unknown outside France? He spent a lifetime avoiding stardom, but also his brilliant lyrics are totally untranslatable, and though his best melodies are unforgettably beguiling and his voice guitar unequalled models of how to support a lyric, those lyrics are crucial. Some of his very finest songs (including the Villon and Aragon settings) are missing here, and some included are below his best. But second-best Brassens still towers over Jacques Who? and all his ilk.
© John Storm Roberts, Original Music /TiVo
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Georges Brassens, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Victor Apicella, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Jacques Canetti, Producer
℗ 1952 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Author, MainArtist - Eugene Metehen, Composer - Victor Apicella, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Jacques Canetti, Producer
℗ 1952 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Victor Apicella, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Jacques Canetti, Producer
℗ 1952 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Victor Apicella, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Jacques Canetti, Producer
℗ 1953 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Jacques Canetti, Producer
℗ 1954 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Jacques Canetti, Producer
℗ 1954 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, MainArtist - Paul Fort, Author - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Victor Apicella, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Victor Apicella, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Jacques Canetti, Producer
℗ 1952 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Jacques Canetti, Producer
℗ 1956 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Victor Apicella, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1953 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Victor Apicella, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1953 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Barthélémy Rosso, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1961 Mercury Music Group
Louis Aragon, Author - Georges Brassens, Composer, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Victor Apicella, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1953 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1960 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Barthélémy Rosso, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1961 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Barthélémy Rosso, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1964 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Barthélémy Rosso, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1964 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Barthélémy Rosso, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Georges Meyerstein-Maigret, Producer
℗ 1964 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1966 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1966 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Barthélémy Rosso, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1969 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Antoine Pol, Author - Joel Favreau, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Pierre Nicolas, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Georges Meyerstein-Maigret, Producer
℗ 1972 Mercury Music Group
Georges Brassens, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Joel Favreau, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Pierre Nicolas, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1976 Mercury Music Group
Album review
George Brassens was France's finest post-war singer/songwriter, a uniquely and unquantifiably Parisian phenomenon. Armed with an acoustic guitar (at most, late in his career, a string trio) and a deceptively simple baritone voice, he set people whistling in the street lovesongs (risqué and otherwise) of affable idiosyncracy and settings of poets from Villon to Aragon. Why is he unknown outside France? He spent a lifetime avoiding stardom, but also his brilliant lyrics are totally untranslatable, and though his best melodies are unforgettably beguiling and his voice guitar unequalled models of how to support a lyric, those lyrics are crucial. Some of his very finest songs (including the Villon and Aragon settings) are missing here, and some included are below his best. But second-best Brassens still towers over Jacques Who? and all his ilk.
© John Storm Roberts, Original Music /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 24 track(s)
- Total length: 01:17:22
- Main artists: Georges Brassens
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal Music Division Mercury Records
- Genre: World Europe French Music
© 2004 Mercury Music Group This Compilation ℗ 2004 Mercury Music Group
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