Love Songs [Import]

Francoise Hardy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 11, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polyg
• ASIN: B000034CDD
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,440,686 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

22 hit tracks by the phenomenal French chanteuse, some sung in English & some in French. Includes: 'Ce Petite Coeur', 'Il N'y A Pas D'Amour Heureux', 'Autumn Rendez-Vous' & 'ThisLittle Heart'. 1996 release on BMG's Camden label. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Compilation of Hardy's Early Years!, December 13, 2005

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Morten Vindberg (Denmark) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Les Chansons D'Amour (Audio CD)

Though this is obviously a "cheapo" release with very sparse information about the tracks and the artist, it is actually a pretty well compiled CD of some of Hardy's best early recordings.

Containing most her of biggest hits like "Ce Petite Coeur", "Tous les Garcons et les Filles", "La Maison ou Jái Grandi" and her only British top 20 hit-single "All Over the World", the CD gives a fine introduction to the most melodic and catchy side of Hardy.

A few harder to find tracks have also been included, among those English versions of some of her biggest hits in France.

For those who are not familar with Hardy's Vogue recordings or who just like intelligent 1960's pop, this CD is highly recommended.

If you want more of the same there is double CD called "The Vogue Years" covering her 1962-67 period brilliantly.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Francoise Hardy Revisited, November 9, 2006

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Richard R. Allen (Moncks Corner, SC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Les Chansons D'Amour (Audio CD)

In the early 60's I was introduced to Hardy's music while attached to the U.S.S. Enterprise CVA(N)65 by a fellow shipmate. We enjoyed her style and then life took over. Some forty years passed and I thought of her lovely voice. I purchased three of her CD's and her music still is enjoyed. The three CD's I purchased take her early years and one of the three takes her through the 60's to the 2000's. This CD and any other one might wish to purchase is worth every dollar. One other note before the final period, "You don't have to speak french to enjoy this melodious French songstress. (On this particular CD she does some in English.......)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Songs of Love...d'Amour and more!, September 7, 2009

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Lumen Doce "Lu D." (North Augusta, SC USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Les Chansons D'Amour (Audio CD)

I discovered Francoise Hardy only recently via YouTube and the French Yé-Yé singers of the early sixties. But what a discovery! While I was listening to The Beatles, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Monkees, etc., I was missing out on these exceptional French singers. I'm just grateful this music is still available and made more accessible thanks to the remastering of many CDs, to Internet videos, and so forth -- and this particular CD is an excellent compilation representing some of Hardy's best work. Her voice is crisp and clean like a cool drink of fresh water, often subdued but just as suddenly explosive so that I quickly found myself humming to the compositions all day long -- even though I don't know French! 22 songs may seem a lot for a single CD, but the tunes are short (as was typical of the era) and will have you playing the CD over and over endlessly. Well worth the buy, and once you start you won't want to stop!