"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Charles Koechlin – L’Abbaye – 1952 Something a little different tonight. Back over to the mountain of French Radio Transcriptions, but rather than focus on orchestras or instrumentalists, I thought I would…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Leo Marjane- Le Refraine De La Pluie – 1941 Something completely different tonight. 40’s French Torch singers. Leo Marjane was hugely popular in France in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Her career came…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – part 1: Orchestre National de France at Torino Part 1 Clink on the link here for Audio Player – part 2:Orchestre National de France at Torino – Part 2 A day…
Probably one of the most popular and most recorded of the “Yè-Yè” genre of French female singers of the 1960’s was Sylvia Vartan. Married (for a time) to Johnny Hallyday, the Elvis Presley of France, she and Hallyday were considered…
Click on the link here for audio player: News for August 15, 1941 It was finally disclosed on this day in 1941 that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had concluded a three day summit meeting with President Roosevelt “somewhere at…
Click on the link here for audio player: Brigitte Bardot – Contact – 1967 Yes, Brigitte Bardot. Probably one of the most recognizable sex symbols to come out of France in the 1950’s and 60’s, Bardot also tried her hand…
Click on the audio player here: News for July 31, 1940 As the Nation’s Capitol sweltered for its thirteenth consecutive day, this July 31st in 1940, the news was appropriately sparse and the events were comparatively few. Starting with news…
Click on the Link: News for July 23, 1947 News for this July 23rd in 1947 had to do with the delicate balance being struck throughout postwar Europe, and fears the unity was falling apart. The Big Three Conference was…