“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
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.
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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