Songs in French for Children |  | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Sony Special Product
Category: Music
List Price: $6.97
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Seller: ziarecords
Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 567
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 079892429923
EAN: 0079892429923
ASIN: B00005CEP5
Release Date: January 1, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Petit Cordonnier - Lucienne Vernay, Lemarque | | • | Sur le Pont d'Avignon - Lucienne Vernay, Traditional | | • | La Cane de Jeanne - Lucienne Vernay, Brassens, G. | | • | L' Alouette - Lucienne Vernay, Traditional | | • | Dansons la Capucine - Lucienne Vernay, Traditional | | • | L' Abeille et le Papillon - Lucienne Vernay, Pon, Maurice Marie | | • | De Quoi Qui Y'a - Lucienne Vernay, Traditional | | • | Prom'nons Nous Dans Les Bois - Lucienne Vernay, Traditional | | • | Le Petit Train - Lucienne Vernay, Fontenoy, M. | | • | Arlequin Dans Sa Boutique - Lucienne Vernay, Traditional | | • | La Petite Marie - Lucienne Vernay, Eyssen, S.M. | | • | La Ferme de Zephirin - Lucienne Vernay, Mirman, L. | | • | Mon Père Avait 500 Moutons - Lucienne Vernay, Traditional | | • | Picotin Musicien - Lucienne Vernay, Mirman, L. | | • | Encore un Carreau d'Cassé - Lucienne Vernay, Traditional | | • | Panko l'Ourson - Lucienne Vernay, Grassi, A. | | • | La Claire Fontaine - Lucienne Vernay, Guerin, Pierre | | • | Le Grand Méchant Loup (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?) - Lucienne Vernay, Churchill, R. | | • | As-Tu Vu la Casquette? - Lucienne Vernay, Traditional | | • | La Fourmi - Lucienne Vernay, Deanos, R. |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 39
One of the greatest French-language children's albums ever! December 7, 2001
Benoit Racine (Toronto, Ontario Canada)
122 out of 129 found this review helpful
This album was to my Mother Goose years (early 50's) what The Beatles'"Sergeant Pepper" was to the sixties: a landmark. It was produced by Columbia Records for the US Market and used an unlikely quintet: Les Quatre Barbus, a group of four existentialist-type bearded lads who opened for the likes of Boris Vian and Juliette Greco in the heady days of the St-Germain-des-Pres chansonniers, and Lucienne Vernay, a soft-spoken, smoky-voiced chanteuse. The result was dynamite and the songs used were very eclectic. There is one song by surrealist cult-figure Robert Desnos (absurdist but childlike, music by Joseph Kosma) and one song by perennial bohemian Georges Brassens (absurdist and cynical, but it is about the death of a female duck so it does qualify as a children's song). There are two translated American songs (Three Little Pigs and Old MacDonald Had a Farm). All the other songs are a mixture of French folklore and contemporary writing. The only major children's masterpiece of the era that is missing from the collection is "Une chanson douce" by Henri Salvador, but that's another story and he is also represented on this collection... The interpretation is fresh, the songs being handled by Lucienne alone when they are sentimental, Lucienne and the boys when they are folkloric and the boys alone when they are rowdy. What makes this album such a success is the imagination displayed in the production, recording techniques and orchestrations. There is always something mysterious, unexpected or simply wonderful going on in the background to make the stories engaging and the songs are not only sung, they are acted with the greatest of skill. It is a delight to hear those songs over and over again and they grow in profundity, significance and polish as you grow older (and you compare them to the usual caca that passes for children's entertainment these days). I will never know what American children of the 50's made of these songs (there was no English lyrics sheet enclosed, only liner notes) but I do know that as a French-speaking child in pre-Quiet Revolution Quebec, growing up in a sea of English at the time, it was a blessing. It should be noted that this album is still sold in France, 50 years later, under its English title. [...]
Best Silly Songs for Tots May 30, 2006
Viv Barker (New Jersey)
31 out of 32 found this review helpful
These songs are universally appealing to the 2 - 6 y.o. age group to whom I teach French. The arrangements are clear, sparkling, and very entertaining. The gregarious spirit of the album draws kids into repeating and singing along with little concern for content. As they become more interested and start asking questions, parents can find lyrics, and in some cases history, of these classic songs by entering titles into an international search engine.
Simply wonderful November 3, 2005
Germaine de Stael (Florida, USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am so glad I bought this and will buy it as gifts for others. The musical arrangements are lovely (to mother, young child, and baby) and Lucienne Vernay has such a beautiful, clean and simple voice. What a delight to listen to.
Songs likely to entertain anybody March 28, 2008
Gabriele Stellmacher (USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
The songs are sung by adult singers, not a children's choir, and the voices are beautiful. That's why I can use the CD for beginning learners of French in a college classroom.
The songs are not just sung, one after the other. They are also a little bit acted out, with the interjection of voices and animal sounds that can be funny, instead of embarassing, to young adults. The CD is not just kids singing children's songs. It has more surprises, is more playful, a bit funny, so that kids and adults can enjoy it.
Good selection of songs. Nothing primitive or basic about it.
Delightful! February 12, 2007
Heather in WI
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Our three boys (6y, 4y, and 2y) *love* this cd! We listen to it almost every day. The music is cheerful and gentle and the singers are pleasant to listen to.
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