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Artist:Mireille Mathieu
Title:Les Bicyclettes De Belsize
Label:  Columbia
Country:UK
Catalogue:SCX 6328
Date:Mar 1969
Format:Stereo LP
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Community: 4 Own, 1 Wants
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1Mireille MathieuLes Bicyclettes De BelsizeReed, IthierRate
A2Mireille MathieuTous Les AmoureuxGaubert, DoussetRate
A3Mireille MathieuCelui Que J'aimeAznavourRate
A4Mireille MathieuViens Dans Ma RuePascal MauriatRate
A5Mireille MathieuA MayerlingLai, PlanteRate
A6Mireille MathieuEnsemble (Sometimes)Bouquet, ReedRate
B1Mireille MathieuEt Merci Quand MemeChaumelle, KesslairRate
B2Mireille MathieuUne Rose Au Coeur De L'hiver (If You Change Your Mind)Reed, DoussetRate
B3Mireille MathieuJe Ne Suis Rien Sans Toi (I'm Coming Home)Pascal, ReedRate
B4Mireille MathieuQuand Tu T'en IrasPlante, SciozilleRate
B5Mireille MathieuTous Les Violons De VienneLai, PlanteRate
B6Mireille MathieuUn Homme Et Une FemmeBarouh, LaiRate


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Magic Marmalade
25th Sep 2016
 Review
This is recommended listening for anyone who likes Edith Piaf.

...but done for a (then: 1968) contemporary audience.

It's Chanson - I believe they call it - bordering on the Eurovision, but the main reason you can hear in why the record company snapped Mireille Mathieu up immediately is because her voice, in the main, is an exact clone of Piaf's; That high... trill, and tremulous voice I guess you'd describe it, even has the earthy, world weary - maybe even gruff, at times - undertone.

On the whole the songs, and the rendition of them is more optimistic than Edith Piaf's, but I suppose that is because of the times Mathieu was singing in... although one or two here are the kind of big torch songs that you could quite easily imagine Piaf doing.

It's likely that here is first hand evidence of the effect and influence Edith Piaf had on how French people sang in subsequent generations, both in making everyone wanting to sing like her, and in record companies deliberately seeking the "New Piaf" at every turn.

Not only a more optimistic, as I said, brand of music, but a little more hazy and romantic in feel, sometimes this album could be the soundtrack to a sixties French film featuring bicycles with baskets and extended scenes of gamboling in fields and other pastoral settings, and at others it sounds pretty.... um... shag-tastic, as Austin Powers may understand the term.

A Mayerling is the strongest tune here,sweeping and powerfully done, while the last track: Un Homme Et Une Femme is one that I think pretty much every French singer has done at some point (I think Francoise Hardy may be known to have done it), and like me, you'd probably recognise it instantly as being indelibly linked with that sixties sound: "La-la-la-la la".

Cracking.

I know I've mentioned Edith Piaf enough already in this review, like I'm clinging to her name as the only source of reference an ignorant Englishman like me can understand anything that ain't sung in English, as I would a life-preserver... but the parallels are very strongly there.

If you like Edith Piaf, you'll like Mireille Mathieu.

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