Édith Piaf: Essential 180g Vinyl LP

Édith Piaf: Essential (180g) [NUMBER ONE ESSENTIALS]

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An 18-song Édith Piaf collection on 180g vinyl, from "La Vie En Rose" and "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" to "Milord," "Padam, Padam" and "Hymne À L'amour."

Why you'll love it

This limited edition puts 18 Piaf songs on one 180g LP, pressed in the EU. It gathers her signature songs from "L'accordéoniste" in 1940 to "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" in 1960.

This edition

180g vinyl
Limited edition
Pressed in the EU

About the album

Édith Piaf began her career touring with her father at fourteen, and in 1935 a Paris club owner named Louis Leplée heard her and brought her indoors. From there she became France's most popular entertainer and, by most accounts, its greatest popular singer, a tiny figure with a voice that could fill the Paris Olympia.

Her songs were often autobiographical, chanson réaliste and torch ballads about love and loss sung as if every word cost something. She wrote the lyrics to "La Vie En Rose" herself in 1945, and it became her signature. "Hymne À L'amour" soars, "La Foule" whirls like a crowd at a fairground, "Milord" is pure theatre, "Padam, Padam" follows a melody she can't shake, and "Sous Le Ciel De Paris" is a postcard you can hear. "Les Trois Cloches" and "Mon Dieu" show the tender side.

She made eight appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and toured Europe, South America and the United States, and the 2007 film La Vie en Rose won an Academy Award. Some voices need no translation; this is the one we play when someone asks for French lessons on a budget.

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Tracklist

Side A
1. Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
2. La Foule
3. L'accordéoniste
4. La Goualante Du Pauvre Jean
5. Les Trois Cloches
6. Un Étranger
7. Les Mots D'amour
8. Sous Le Ciel De Paris
9. Hymne À L'amour

Side B
1. La Vie En Rose
2. Milord
3. Mon Dieu
4. Bravo Pour Le Clown
5. C'est L'amour
6. Cri Du Coeur
7. Je Hais Les Dimanches
8. Le Chevalier De Paris [Aka Les Pommiers Doux]
9. Padam, Padam