Anthologie, Vol. 9 [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Remastered reissue of the 9th volume of French recordings by the British pop icon. 22 tracks including 9 bonus, 'Je Fais Courir' (alternate version), 'En Juillet' (refrain-edit), 'Pour Aimer Quelqu'un' (alternate version), 'My Guy', 'Little Bit Of Lovin', 'What I Did For Love' (extract from A Chorus Line), 'I Believe In Love', 'Downtown '77', 'How Good It Is To Know You' (edit). Slipcase. Anthology's. 2002.

Tracks:

Comme une Pri (The Simple Song) [Messe de Leonard Bernstein]
Comme Chien et Chat
Pour Aimer Quelqu'un (Someone to Love)
Flash-Back
Dans Les Yeux d'Un Homme
Comme Je T'Aime Mon Amour
Embrasse-Moi Pour Ma F (Life Is a Merry-Go-Round)
Madame Poup
Je Fais Courir
Petit Peu d'Amour
Jour et Nuit (Day by Day) [From Godspell]
Marie Dr (Marie de Vere) [Mixage 45 Tours (Don't Cry for] - Petula Clark,
Volodia de Varsovie
Je Fais Courir [Version Alternative Inte][*]
En Juillet [Int][*]
Pour Aimer Quelqu'un (Someone to Love) [Version Alternative ...]
My Guy [*]
Little Bit of Lovin' [*]
What I Did for Love [From A Chorus Line][*]
I Believe in Love [*]
Downtown '77 [*]
How Good It Is to Know You [Int][*]

Album Description

Remastered reissue of the 9th volume of French recordings by the British pop icon. 22 tracks including 9 bonus, 'Je Fais Courir' (alternate version), 'En Juillet' (refrain-edit), 'Pour Aimer Quelqu'un' (alternate version), 'My Guy', 'Little Bit Of Lovin', 'What I Did For Love' (extract from A Chorus Line), 'I Believe In Love', 'Downtown '77', 'How Good It Is To Know You' (edit). Slipcase. Anthology's. 2002.

Album Details

The Lifelong Entertainer Makes her Home in France, Where She Achieved her Initial Recording Success. These 22 Great Tracks (Including Nine Previously Unreleased) Are Part of the Series that Compiles her Complete Recordings from 1972 to 1976. Includes Material Written by Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Colombier, Alain Chamfort, Donovan and Jacques Lanzmann.

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful music from the seventies.......2003-02-15

This completes the marathon nine-volume Anthologie series of French recordings on their Vogue label. Indeed, there were not enough tracks to fill this volume with French music, so sic of Petula's English language recordings from the same period are included.

The CD begins with the complete original album, Comme une priere. The title track (an extract from Leonard Bernstein's Mass translated into French) is one of several songs here that show Petula returning to her roots. Petula began her career as an actress who happened to sing. Her French version of Day by day (from Godspell) and her English language cover of What I did for love are other theatrical songs included here. Fans of her sixties music will be pleased to discover a cover of My Guy (the Motown song which was a huge international hit for Mary Wells).

While the music here does not rank among her most commercially successful, it is of an extremely high quality and very enjoyable, especially to those who understand that the years with Tony Hatch were only a small part of a very long and distinguished career.

At last.......2003-01-08

For 30 years I have been reading and hearing about Petula's "Comme un Priere" album; in a poll many U.S. and British fans voted it as their favorite. I tried and tried to get a copy but never did. Now, three decades later, finally I've heard it and, yep, it's divine. Much different than her English-language output of the era, intriguing and fascinating. What a pleasure to finally have heard it. Now I can die happy. This album will make YOU happy whether or not you know a word of French.

A BILINGUAL MUSICAL MELANGE.......2002-12-05

By the time she recorded the tracks included in this compilation of songs issued in the English and French-language markets between 1972 and 1976, Petula Clark had long shed the "Downtown" sound that dominated the years in which she worked almost exclusively with composer/arranger/producer Tony Hatch. One need listen no further than the first selection here - "Comme Une Priere," a translation of an extract from Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" - to realize this is a decidedly different Clark from the days when the bouncy pop lyrics and pulsating beat of her songs dominated the charts. Although 16 of the 22 tracks are in French, you don't need to understand a word to realize many of them are short stories or brief plays, exquisitely interpreted by Clark with her impeccable enunciation and trademark vocal phrasing. The singer's fans will already know several of the tunes from their versions on English LPs; everyone will recognize "Jour et Nuit" (literally, "Day and Night") as "Day by Day" from "Godspell." While most might find the mix of languages odd, and the English selections puzzling since they've been issued previously, the CD was actually prepared for her French audience, which embraced her no matter the language, and these English songs are new to them. Among them, "What I Did for Love" (from "A Chorus Line") and a cover of "My Guy" - complete with the more traditional brass accompaniment of Clark's 60s sound - are the highlights. A must for diehard fans, and a good investment for those whose appreciation of suberb vocalizing supercedes their need to understand the lyrcs.

Excellent collection of romantic slow-tempo songs.......2002-11-29

This album consists of mostly slow tempo French recordings from 1972 and 1976. Since the early 1970's, Pet has recorded few up-tempo songs (unfortunately) and very little rock and roll. In my opinion this collection is not quite as good as Volumes 1 through 8 of her French Anthologie series which contain many up-tempo selections and French versions of her English hits. However, you don't need to understand French to enjoy Petula's rich, crystal clear vocals and the beautiful musical arrangements of these songs. Downtown '77 is a notable miss; (Pet was no disco girl). Fans of Petula's slower tempo love songs will enjoy this CD.

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Anthologie, Vol. 9
Petula Clark
Manufacturer: Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BRJ576
Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

Comme une Pri (The Simple Song) [Messe de Leonard Bernstein]
Comme Chien et Chat
Pour Aimer Quelqu'un (Someone to Love)
Flash-Back
Dans Les Yeux d'Un Homme
Comme Je T'Aime Mon Amour
Embrasse-Moi Pour Ma F (Life Is a Merry-Go-Round)
Madame Poup
Je Fais Courir
Petit Peu d'Amour
Jour et Nuit (Day by Day) [From Godspell]
Marie Dr (Marie de Vere) [Mixage 45 Tours (Don't Cry for] - Petula Clark,
Volodia de Varsovie
Je Fais Courir [Version Alternative Inte][*]
En Juillet [Int][*]
Pour Aimer Quelqu'un (Someone to Love) [Version Alternative ...]
My Guy [*]
Little Bit of Lovin' [*]
What I Did for Love [From A Chorus Line][*]
I Believe in Love [*]
Downtown '77 [*]
How Good It Is to Know You [Int][*]

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