Georges Moustaki (album, 1961)
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Georges Moustaki (also: Les Orteils au soleil , after the first track) is the first studio album by the French chansonist Georges Moustaki . It was released in March 1961 on the Ducretet Thomson label . Originally released as a 10 "album on record, it was first released on CD in 2013 after Moustaki's death.
Track list
| No. | title | page |
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| 1 | Les Orteils au soleil | A. |
| 2 | Les Musiciens | A. |
| 3 | Près de chez moi | A. |
| 4th | Eden blues | A. |
| 5 | Le Jugement dernier | B. |
| 6th | From Shanghai to Bangkok | B. |
| 7th | Ce n'est pas la première fois | B. |
| 8th | J'attends le jour | B. |
Compositions
The album is a collection of self-interpretations of chansons that Moustaki originally wrote for other artists. All of the songs come entirely from his pen, only the text for Le Jugement dernier was written by Georges Brunon. Claude-Henri Vic was co-composer at De Shanghai à Bangkok .
As previously the title Milord , Moustaki had actually written the song Eden Blues for Édith Piaf , whom he met through their mutual friend Henri Criolla and with whom he had a brief love affair. Piaf had already recorded the title Eden Blues before Moustaki rearranged it for his own album. The song De Shanghai à Bangkok was later reinterpreted by both Yves Montand and the French singer Barbara . For Piaf and Barbara, numerous other compositions by Moustaki were to follow in the course of time.
Les musiciens appeared a year before this release on the album Colette Renard à l'Olympia by Colette Renard , the piece Le jugement dernier was already known in 1959 in the version by Hugues Aufray .
production
The orchestral parts of the production were arranged by André Livernaux . They were later to form the style for the productions of Moustaki's often ballad-like chansons.
reception
Some of the tracks on the album mark milestones in the French chanson. But although many of these titles brought other chansonniers great success, Moustaki's own recordings initially fell short of the label's expectations. In view of the poor sales figures, Ducretet Thomson canceled his contract in 1966. The also self-titled album, published in 1969 by Polydor , then brought the desired success with the third single Le métèque . In retrospect, the 1969 album is therefore often mistakenly called the debut album. The forgotten first work was only rediscovered by fans in 2016 with the re- edition published by RDM .
Individual evidence
- ^ Harris M. Lentz III: Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2013 . McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina 2013, ISBN 978-0-7864-6953-6 , pp. 267 .
- ↑ biography de Georges Moustaki copie http://www.creatweb.com/moustaki/. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Georges Moustaki: The Greatest Hits by Georges Moustaki on Apple Music. 1993. Retrieved October 2, 2017 (American English).