Beat En Francais [Import, Original recording remastered]

Petula Clark | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 7, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Castle Music UK
• ASIN: B00005B481
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #63,528 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Ya Ya Twist

2. Partir, Il Nous Faut (Nobody I Know)

3. Bye Bye Mon Amour (Hello Mary Lou)

4. J'Ai Pas le Temps (No Go Showboat)

5. Viens Avec Moi (I Know a Place)

6. Regardez-Les (Look at Me/Just Say Goodbye)

7. Si Tu Prenais le Temps (A Sign of the Times)

8. Va Toujours Plus Loin (Round Every Corner)

9. Donne-Moi des Fleurs (Gotta Tell the World)

10. Un Jeune Homme Bien (A Well Respected Man)

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Disc: 2

1. La Nuit N'en Finit Plus (Needles and Pins)

2. Calendar Girl

3. Entre Nous il Est Fou (She's a Fool)

4. Je Me Sens Bien (Auprès de Toi) (Dance On)

5. Oublie, Oublie Tout (Judy, Judy, Judy)

6. Donne-Moi des Fleurs (Gotta Tell the World) [#]

7. Violà la Temps des Vacances (It's Party Time)

8. Un Mal Pour un Bien (You're the One for Me)

9. Le Ciel de Mon Pays (Hold on to What You've Got)

10. Cala Di Volpe

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 50 of Petula's rocking French recordings, May 3, 2001

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beat En Francais (Audio CD)

This is an excellent compilation of Petula's French recordings. It concentrates almost exclusively on her uptempo rocking songs, the exception being Un enfant, so anybody looking for her romantic songs should look elsewhere. Among the uptempo songs, there is one very obvious omission - Dans le temps (Downtown). So if you want a French greatest hits, Ses plus belles chansons is still the strongest collection available at the time of this review.

So what songs are here? There are French versions of Nobody I know, Hello Mary Lou, No go showboat, I know a place, A sign of the times, Round every corner, Gotta tell the world, A well respected man, Time for love, Please please me, Second fiddle girl, They call my guy a tiger, What do you want?, Save the last dance for me, Heart, Dance with me, Needles and pins, Calendar girl, She's a fool, Dance on, Judy Judy Judy, It's party time, You're the one, Hold on to what you've got, My love, This is goodbye, Foot tapper, Where do you go?, Cottonfields (a #1 hit for her in Singapore, this is a briiliant recording - I've heard many great versions of this song, but none better than Petula's - - pity she didn't do an English version), Anyone who had a heart and There goes my love there goes my life, also Ya ya twist (a translation of a Lee Dorsey song which was a #1 hit for her in France) and many other excellent songs. Many of these songs were never recorded by Petula in English.

I hope enough people buy this compilation to encourage the record company to release another 50 of her French tracks, this time concentrating on the ballads, although anybody who wants a comprehensive collection of her French recordings should go for the Anthologie series (nine volumes so far, with enough songs left for at least a tenth volume).

To sum up, this collection of songs shows that Petula could rock and roll with the best. You don't need to understand French to enjoy this collection - enough of the songs will be familiar to you already in their English language versions. Buy now - you won't regret it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome CD, June 8, 2008

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A. Mcculloch (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beat En Francais (Audio CD)

Not only is this CD jammed packed with tunes, but they are mainly all good (2 1/2 bad tracks out of 50 is amazing!). You get a feel for Petula's French stuff and it is eye-opening. She had so many hits and they're all for our enjoyment. I cannot recommend this CD enough.