Every day in the summer we talk about a great love song. Friday, July 14, the anniversary of his death, let’s dance the most beautiful slow of Léo Ferré.
You can love poetic song and the highest tradition of French song and not love this song any more than the Saturday night dancers who do not know the name of Léo Ferré. It’s a slow, and one of the best slows in the history of slow.
Obviously, we can consider that Léo Ferré wrote at least one more beautiful love song…
In this episode of These songs that make the summeryou hear excerpts from:
Leo Ferre, It’s great, 1969
Leo Ferre, With time, 1971
Leo Ferre, It’s great, 1969
The Moody Blues, Nights In White Satin, 1967
Leo Ferre, Pops, 1971
The Op’4, It’s great, 1967
Terez Montcalm, It’s great, 2009
Cali, It’s great, 2018
Leo Ferre, It’s great, 1969
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