We come to the end of our series These crooners who party. For two weeks, we have been listening to these artists who whisper in our ears love, gentleness, pleasure, optimism. They are there, both firm in the design of the note and perfectly silky in the timbre – a delicious and polymorphous art. But I wanted us to leave with Henri Salvador. And with this song that reminds us that nothing is ever quite finished, quite final, quite finished, in show business as in life.
Because today we are going to explore the story of a rebirth. The rebirth of the artist who had recorded Zorro has arrived, have to laugh, Juanita Banana Where We have it in the baba – and who couldn’t take it anymore. The rebirth of the artist who was arguably the greatest French crooner, but a B-side crooner whose sweet songs were invariably overlooked by the radios of his time.
So, once is not customary, we are going to take almost a minute of uninterrupted music, but we all need to find the sweetness and the poetry of Salvador’s voice …
In this episode of These crooners who make parties, you hear excerpts from:
Henri Salvador, Winter Garden, 2000
Henri Salvador, Saint Germain des Pres, 1950
Henri Salvador, When I go up to your place 1956
Henri Salvador, An island in the sun, 1958
Henri Salvador, Syracuse, 1963
Henri Salvador, Count Basie, 1963
Henri Salvador, Be soft, 1994
Henri Salvador and Françoise Hardy, The Queen’s Fool, 2000
Henri Salvador, Winter Garden, 2000
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Remember: during the summer of 2019, La Playlist de Françoise Hardy was a journey through the musical baggage of an author, composer and performer considered to be the arbiter of the elegance of pop in France.
In July and August 2017, we spent Un été en Souchon, during which Alain Souchon guided us on a tasty walk through a lifetime of love for song.