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An international repertoire from French songs to American musicals through Tango, Classical Music and Jazz! Original and unique arrangements!
A chance to discover or rediscover songs such as...

 

Strange
Lyrics: M. Yeston / Music: M. Yeston
Written for Isabelle by Broadway composer Maury Yeston.

Fils de …
Lyrics: J. Brel / Music: G. Jouannest
Gérard Jouannest wrote simple and amazing melodies for Jacques Brel.
Fils de… is one of them.

When You Come Home to Me
Lyrics: R. Brown / Music: J. R. Brown
From The Last Five Years, the show that won Drama Desk Awards for best music and best lyrics. Jason Brown has been hailed as “one of Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim."

Jalousie
Lyrics: I. Georges / Music: S. Logerot
A modern tango inspired by Piazola’s Libertango.

The Boy from…
Lyrics: S. Sondheim / Music: M. Rogers
Originally performed by Linda Lavin in a 1966 Off-Broadway revue entitled The Mad Show.
The song is essentially a parody of The Girl from Ipanema.

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2 minutes 35 de bonheur
Lyrics & Music: J.M. Rivat, F. Thomas & J. Renard
January 1967, Sylvie Vartan is number 1 in Spain and Italy with Due minuti di felicita, an adaptation of her successful French duet with Carlos.

Alone Together
Lyrics: H. Dietzl / Music: A. Schwartz
Introduced in the revue Flying Colours in 1932.

Who Cares
Lyrics: I. Gershwin / Music: G. Gershwin
December 1931, Of Thee I Sing opens at the Music Box Theatre in New York.
It runs for 441 performances and wins the Pulitzer Prize!
Two of the songs become standards,
and Who Cares is one of them.

Where or When
Lyrics: L. Hart / Music: R. Rodgers
Written for the 1937 Broadway musical Babes In Arms.

La Valse de la mariée
Music: S. Logerot
Written by Stéphane Logerot as a wedding gift to his wife.

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Les Poitrines de Paris
Lyrics: C. Porter / Music: C. Porter
Created for Nymph Errant, a musical based on the novel by James Laver, which opened October 6th, 1933 at the Adelphi Theatre (London), and ran for 154 performances.

Une Petite fille
Lyrics: C. Nougaro / Music: J. Datin
Claude Nougaro’s first success.
Audience’s favorite song in 1962.

Old and Wise
Lyrics & Music: E. Woolfson & A. Parsons
In 1974, Alan Parsons started adapting selected works of Edgar Allen Poe to music. Two years, and thousands of feet of tape later, the Alan Parsons Project was born: the highly acclaimed Tales of Mystery and Imagination album was the first in a series of award-winning albums, among them Eye In The Sky, where we found this beautiful song.

Crazy World
Lyrics: L. Bricusse / Music: H. Mancini
Is one of the gems in Victor Victoria, the 1982 movie (7 Academy Award Nominations) starring Julie Andrews, James Garner and Robert Preston.

Padam... Padam...
Lyrics: H. Contet / Music: N. Glanzberg
Written in 1951 for Edith Piaf this song became one of her greatest international successes.