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75 Chansons

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Three discs for $10, a bargain! The three discs are arranged chronologically, with some records done live on stage with a little intro by Piaf, such as Milord and Enfin le Printemps. L'accordéoniste is also live and has excellent high fidelity. La Vie en Rose is the original Columbia recording, in French, from the 78rpm record. Many songs are from the old records, good transfers. My favorite is the third disc with the live recordings. You will love this over any other Piaf recording on Amazon because you get not only a mix, but three times as much music for the same price!

I became interested in the music of Edith Piaf after seeing the recent movie of her life. My husband says, "would you like some music?" What he means is, would I like to hear 75 Chansons again! The answer is almost always yes. The quality of the CDs is good enough to make you believe you are hearing her in person, and the number of songs keeps it from seeming repetitive, even though you may listen over and over.

What a great treat to have 75 songs sung by great Edith Piaf.
I love her voice. I love her interpretations. Doesn't matter that I don't understand a word of French. Her tone says it all.

I purchased this for my father, who is 76 years old. It moved him deeply to hear so many of these songs from his past. It was especially nice that there were songs in this collection that he hadn't even heard before. I am very pleased with this purchase.

The songs in this 3-disc collection called "75 Chansons" appear to be the same songs as those on the last 3 out of 4 discs in another collection called "100 Chansons." When "75 Chansons" discs are copied to computer for personal enjoyment, album art for "100 Chansons" appears, and the discs are labeled 2 thru 4 (instead of 1 thru 3). Both collections apparently arrange songs chronologically. The "75 Chansons" set, therefore, seems to represent later works of the artist.

this is a compilation of all my favourite Piaf songs, many of which I only had on old tapes, so I now have them on one CD. Marvellous as I have always thought of her, and I now listen uninterrupted as I drive along motorways, singing along desperately out of tune, but imagining myself in a Left Bank cafe.

Disks 1 and 2, the older songs, are mediocre; disk # 3 is musically and technically superb.

While the first cd is technically poor (much noise and static), the chanteuse is riveting. Maybe you can pretend that you are listening to her on a radio of that time. The second disk is technically much better with a few exceptions, and of course the chantuese... I am writing this before I have listened to the third disk.

Well...rendering me helpless ,at least.
I am listening to this 3-CD set as I type this,and I am marveling at the depth of emotion in her voice.She was a little waif of a woman,but her voice could have guided ships through the fog.Unbelievably powerful,fraught with emotion in every note.
I am trying to learn French,and immersing myself in her music has helped.
Of all of her torch songs,my favorite is "Adieu,Mon Couer." Without understanding most of the words,(until I translated them)I still feel the emotion she is feeling.
She was and will always be a treasure.
May I suggest that you buy/rent "La Vie en Rose," the movie made about Piaf last year? It will kill you,but in a good way.

It's a comprehensive collection of Edith Piaf's works. While I do not think all of the songs are great, many are, and I would definitely recommend this collection to anyone looking for a good starting point on her works.