Vinyl Album - Mireille Mathieu - Les Bicyclettes De Belsize - Columbia

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Mireille Mathieu
Title:	Les Bicyclettes De Belsize
Label:	Columbia
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	SCX 6328
Date:	Mar 1969
Format:	Stereo LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Mireille Mathieu	Les Bicyclettes De Belsize	Reed, Ithier	Rate
A2	Mireille Mathieu	Tous Les Amoureux	Gaubert, Dousset	Rate
A3	Mireille Mathieu	Celui Que J'aime	Aznavour	Rate
A4	Mireille Mathieu	Viens Dans Ma Rue	Pascal Mauriat	Rate
A5	Mireille Mathieu	A Mayerling	Lai, Plante	Rate
A6	Mireille Mathieu	Ensemble (Sometimes)	Bouquet, Reed	Rate
B1	Mireille Mathieu	Et Merci Quand Meme	Chaumelle, Kesslair	Rate
B2	Mireille Mathieu	Une Rose Au Coeur De L'hiver (If You Change Your Mind)	Reed, Dousset	Rate
B3	Mireille Mathieu	Je Ne Suis Rien Sans Toi (I'm Coming Home)	Pascal, Reed	Rate
B4	Mireille Mathieu	Quand Tu T'en Iras	Plante, Sciozille	Rate
B5	Mireille Mathieu	Tous Les Violons De Vienne	Lai, Plante	Rate
B6	Mireille Mathieu	Un Homme Et Une Femme	Barouh, Lai	Rate

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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. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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UK - Columbia - 1969 [Mono]