Tuesday, July 19, 2005

I bought Edith Piaf's Chante en public on a whim today, and also cos it cost less than $10 at the Gramophone warehouse sale at Orchard.
The signature song of Edith Piaf (her stage name Piaf means Sparrow) was of course La Vie En Rose, redone by...
Louis Armstrong, Cyndi Lauper, Dee Dee Bridgewater and so many more...

The office is just not the right place to listen to her.
She needs a smoky room, with a little stage, and audience sitting at tables, rapt with attention and admiration.
A bottle of wine, or two. Preferably red.

I know I'm a bit late to discover her, seeing how she died in 1963.
But you know, better late than never or mieux vaut tard que jamais.

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