Thread: Trenet is Terrific!

Jeannette - 4/3/2012 à 22:19





quote:

VARIETY Wednesday, May 8, 1946

Acclaimed!

“Trenet was wonderful... he had charm and good looks, that’ll take him quickly to Hollywood.”
EARL WILSON, NEW YORK POST

”…he impresses as a sock personality... bids fair to become an important name in U. S. radio and records (besides clubs), and possibly also pix... has an interpretive personality all his own... a forceful performer… solid hit.”
VARIETY

”... stood the smart audience on its ear for an hour... sang his way into New York cafe history with as complete persuasion imaginable … suddenly, had become the toast of New York.”
ROBERT W. DANA, N.Y. WORLD TELEGRAM

“Charles Trenet’s opening at the Embassy was sensational. Le Fou Chantant (The Singing Fool), as they call him in Paris, hit the spot.”
CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER, N.Y. JOURNAL-AMERICAN

”…the Sinatra of France, handsome, flaxen-haired Charles Trenct, was a big hit … the language of mugging, strutting and rolling the eyes was universal, as Maurice Chevalier discovered.”
TIME MAGAZINE

”… Trenet kept a hard-to-please trade audience shouting for more after 50 full minutes of French singing…”
NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE

“All-round man...”
NEW YORKER

“Besides being a top-drawer singer, boy knows how to go in and out of a mike, can act and has a pliable mugg that he uses to full advantage for comedy and drama…
Continental crowd, including pic names, almost split their palms and shouted themselves hoarse with requests...”
BILLBOARD

“It seems history is about to repeat with another star, … personable with curly reddish blonde hair... His opening night was a great success artistically, with a capacity crowd of movie stars...”
LEE MORTIMER, N.Y. MIRROR


[Edité le 5/3/2012 par Jeannette]


Duncker - 28/3/2012 à 13:25

C’est de l’intérieur de la pochette de l’Album CBS « Vrai, vrai, vrai » de 1981.

Voici un autre texte en anglais, paru dans “Les folies du music-hall » - Editions Spectacles, Paris, 1960.

CHARLES TRENET, THE SINGING MADMAN

Je chante! cried Charles Trenet gaily in 1937, tossing his hat in the air and expressing man’s everlasting need to sing. Maurice Chevalier, reviving his Y’a d’la joie , injected a boyish, lyrical note into the music-hall that year. Trenet made his debut wearing a Chevalier-type straw hat, a pale blue suit, and on his posters, wings drawn by Cocteau and the nickname “The Singing Madman” . He was one of those odd personalities, never satisfied, magnetic, full of regrets, frivolous, noble, with a gift for writing songs. Twenty years later, “The Singing Madman” calmed down a bit, and after Boum, La Mer (adopted by the Japanese radio as its signature tune), Train de nuit and La pluie 1) , he paid homage to French song in Moi, j’aime le music-hall. Almost all young contemporary singers owe a debt to his lyrical, imaginative, slightly surrealistic style. Trenet created his own world and drew it with comic and touching invention.

1) Probablement il s’agit de : En quittant une ville (Dans le train de nuit il y a des fantômes…) et de Il pleut dans ma chambre.


Jeannette - 28/3/2012 à 15:24

Et voici l'extérieur de la pochette :



Cette image est de l'album de Duncker : le mien n'a pas les titres des chansons.


Duncker - 29/3/2012 à 13:56

C'est exact, ceci est la pochette du 45 tours avec les 2 titres que vous voyez. Le format était plus facile à reproduire parce que plus petit que l'original du 33 tours.


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