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This is Paris
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Title
This is Paris [sound recording] / [written and produced by Pierre Crenesse and Gerald Kean].
Published
[United States] : Vox, [1951]
Physical Description
1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in.
Notes
"Profits of this album are donated by Vox Productions, Inc. to the orphans of the French Resistance of World War II"--Container verso.
Summary
Leading public figures pay homage to Parisian culture and history. Includes music performed by popular singers and musicians.
Format
Audio
Language
English; French
Added to Catalog
April 20, 2012
Performers
Pierre Crenesse, Edward G. Robinson, Claude Dauphin and Josephine Baker; with Eleanor Roosevelt, André Maurois, Charles Munch, Manuel Rosenthal, Christian Dior, Leonce de Saint Martin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Maurice Chevalier, Jacqueline François, Edith Piaf, Henri Salvador, the French National Orchestra, the chorus of the French Broadcasting System, the trumpets of the Republican Guard, the great organ of Notre-Dame of Paris, the bells of the Cathedral of Paris, the Little Singers of the Wooden Cross, the Orchestra Musette "Willy et ses copains" of the "Grand Saint Fiacre" Avenue de St. Mandé, Paris, Louis Armstrong, the Midinettes of Paris, the people of Paris.
Contents
The "chanson" of Paris: newsboy, subway, taxis and busses, "La marchande des quatre saisons," old clothes peddler, l'orgue de Barbarie (hurdy-gurdy), bells of Notre-Dame
Eleanor Roosevelt
Edward G. Robinson
Orpheus. Galop infernal / Offenbach
Claude Dauphin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
André Maurois, de l'Académie franc̜aise
Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois singing "Combien j'ai douce souvenance"
Edward G. Robinson
The trumpets of the Garde republicaine
Leonce de St. Martin, on the great organ of Notre-Dame de Paris
"Grand jeu de dumange" (1600)
Josephine Baker
Bal musette du Grand St. Fiacre : En valsant dans tes bras
Louis Armstrong in Paris : Tiger rag
The midinettes at Christian Dior's
Christian Dior
Josephine Baker, introducing: A Paris policemen, Jacqueline Francois singing "La seine," Henri Salvador singing "Ciel de Paris," Edith Piaf singing "Ciel de Paris," Edith Piaf singing "Je n'en connais pas la fin," Maurice Chevalier singing "Paris a ses 2000 ans"
Issue number
PL 7170 Vox
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