Songs in French for Children
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-01-01
Music Label: Sony Special Product
Soundtracks:
- Le Petit Cordonnier
- Sur le Pont d'Avignon
- La Cane de Jeanne
- L' Alouette
- Dansons la Capucine
- L' Abeille et le Papillon
- De Quoi Qui Y'a
- Prom'nons Nous Dans Les Bois
- Le Petit Train
- Arlequin Dans Sa Boutique
- La Petite Marie
- La Ferme de Zephirin
- Mon Père Avait 500 Moutons
- Picotin Musicien
- Encore un Carreau d'Cassé
- Panko l'Ourson
- La Claire Fontaine
- Le Grand Méchant Loup (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?)
- As-Tu Vu la Casquette?
- La Fourmi
Music reviews of Songs in French for Children
Music Review: One of the greatest French-language children's albums ever!
Rating: 5 Stars
This album was to my Mother Goose years (early 50's) what The Beatles'"Sergeant Pepper" was to the sixties: a landmark. It was produced by Columbia Records for the US Market and used an unlikely quintet: Les Quatre Barbus, a group of four existentialist-type bearded lads who opened for the likes of Boris Vian and Juliette Greco in the heady days of the St-Germain-des-Pres chansonniers, and Lucienne Vernay, a soft-spoken, smoky-voiced chanteuse. The result was dynamite and the songs used were very eclectic. There is one song by surrealist cult-figure Robert Desnos (absurdist but childlike, music by Joseph Kosma) and one song by perennial bohemian Georges Brassens (absurdist and cynical, but it is about the death of a female duck so it does qualify as a children's song). There are two translated American songs (Three Little Pigs and Old MacDonald Had a Farm). All the other songs are a mixture of French folklore and contemporary writing. The only major children's masterpiece of the era that is missing from the collection is "Une chanson douce" by Henri Salvador, but that's another story and he is also represented on this collection... The interpretation is fresh, the songs being handled by Lucienne alone when they are sentimental, Lucienne and the boys when they are folkloric and the boys alone when they are rowdy. What makes this album such a success is the imagination displayed in the production, recording techniques and orchestrations. There is always something mysterious, unexpected or simply wonderful going on in the background to make the stories engaging and the songs are not only sung, they are acted with the greatest of skill. It is a delight to hear those songs over and over again and they grow in profundity, significance and polish as you grow older (and you compare them to the usual caca that passes for children's entertainment these days). I will never know what American children of the 50's made of these songs (there was no English lyrics sheet enclosed, only liner notes) but I do know that as a French-speaking child in pre-Quiet Revolution Quebec, growing up in a sea of English at the time, it was a blessing. It should be noted that this album is still sold in France, 50 years later, under its English title. [...]
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