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Title: 2ORIGINALS IN 1CD
Review: Originally,those were two separate LPS released in the late fifties and early sixties.While this is not BRASSENS'S best overall,there are enough good songs to make it worth buying.Highlights are the title track,LE VIEUX LÉON,BONHOMME,PENELOPE and LE BISTROT.Included here is GEORGE'S only CHRISTMAS song LE PERE NOEL ET LA PETITE FILLE and also another one L'ORAGE ,who makes good use of an invention the paratonnerre by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ,to collect a love affair.This is a typical device of BRASSENS,to establish something unusual;in french the word is insolite.Finally ,there is a song about his parents MAMAN,PAPA and a few poems put to music like PHILISTINS and LE VERGER DU ROI LOUIS.With him,PATACHOU(this is the woman who really discovered him)sings MAMAN,PAPA.In the liner notes,there is a picture of her.
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