First class Mr Zen, I have no regrets listening to this – boom boom.
Was she known as a little bird?
I wish I’d said that 😀
Love this…
Her songs are brimming with a sort of vitality, a fighting spirit and pathos all at the same time.
This one, allez venez milord is the theme tune to some big French comedy show to this day, and still widely played on radio and telly in France. Like all Piaf songs it tells a story -this one about a ‘woman of the night’ whose job it is to console/entertain a broken hearted young man in the brothel.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Excellent 🙂
First class Mr Zen, I have no regrets listening to this – boom boom.
Was she known as a little bird?
I wish I’d said that 😀
Love this…
Her songs are brimming with a sort of vitality, a fighting spirit and pathos all at the same time.
This one, allez venez milord is the theme tune to some big French comedy show to this day, and still widely played on radio and telly in France. Like all Piaf songs it tells a story -this one about a ‘woman of the night’ whose job it is to console/entertain a broken hearted young man in the brothel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBW-UEbOfyQ&feature=related
Claire, it was also a hit for Frankie Vaughan.
but there is no doubting the superiority of the Piaf recording!
Gives me goose-pimples.
Really? Aha! Maybe that explains why it’s so popular there!
She was a ‘sparrow’, in French.
Would it be wrong to compare her with my own favourite, Billy Holliday?
Another great, too rarely heard.
Love Holiday. Great voice, great song, great backup. Soulful.