Customer Reviews
Beg to differ... - By: Mr.Woods, 30 Jun 2008 
I can't agree with Y.O. Barton. This CD is a useful adjunct to Piaf's studio recordings, only seven of the tracks were recordedin "some American music hall" (Carnegie Hall, actually!) the rest are from the famed Olympiain Paris, recorded betwen 1955 & 1962, & demonstrate something of her power as a live performer. The english version of "Les Amants d'un Jour" may not quite have the subtletly of the original (how do you translate "...ce decor, banal a pleurer" using the same number of syllables? - impossible) but it still packs quite a punch, & I still play it to newcomers to Piaf who don't know French. Most are visibly moved by it, so don't knock it!
Ghastly - By: Y. O. Barton, 31 May 2007 
Dreadful waste of (not very much)money. Much of it is of a concert to some ghastly American music hall audience, & some songs, including the haunting Les Amants d'un Jour, arein English, sanitising them of any romance. I beg to differ: this is not the real Edith Piaf. Don't touch it.
A unique experience - By: Angus Jenkinson, 03 Sep 2005 for some reason I am the first to write a review. When I saw the invitation I had to accept. It can only be possible that I am the first because no-one believes a review is really necessay for such a great & well-known artist-singer. In the unlikely event that you are new to Edith - & she does obviously belong to an older generation - these recordings belong to an older school & technique & lack today's brilliant clarity, but this is all the mroe appropriate for the unique smoky voice that is Piaf. Her's is the original sound of soul, of the human spirit & the love of life evenin the midst of the melancholy & tragedy of her times. She will stop - & then enspirit - any of your parties or just fill your evening with pleasure
