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The Extraordinary Garden: the Very Best of Charles Trenet | 
| Artist: Charles Trenet
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 9011
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 077779446421
EAN: 0077779446421
ASIN: B000024T6I
Release Date: June 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Boum | | • | L'ame Des Poetes | | • | Moi J'aime Le Music Hall | | • | Vous Qui Passez Sans Me Voir | | • | La Jolie Sardane | | • | En Avril A Paris | | • | Le Jardin Extraordinaire | | • | Coin De Rue | | • | Mes Jeunes Annes | | • | A La Porte Du Garage | | • | France Dimanche | | • | Qur Reste T'll De Nos Amours | | • | Y'a D'la Joie | | • | Douce France | | • | La Polka Du Roi | | • | Revoir Paris | | • | La Folle Complainte | | • | Le Grand Cafe | | • | La Mer | | • | Menilmontant | | • | Vous Oubliez Votre Cheval | | • | La Maison Du Poete | | • | La Famille Musicienne | | • | Le Chante |
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| Customer Reviews:
The very best of French music if you are in a mood for nostalgia November 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I only realised that Charles Trenet was the singer of such classics as La Mer when he died. I am not of his era, but I bought the CD and it is superb. I can put it on in the car, in the middle of stalled traffic, and be transported to the French countryside. And my 3 year old daughter also fell in love with it.
Do you love music ? March 23, 2002
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
If you love music of any kind you will love this CD. Most people will vaguely know of Charles Trenent from the classic and uplifting "La Mer", or more recently from the Peugeot TV advert which features "Le Jardin Extraordinaire". Over recent years I was aware of Charles Trenent from Michael Parkinson's wonderful Radio 4 Programme of timeless recordings of artists from the last 70 years; from Al Bowlly and Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, to Scott Walker and even Robbie Williams and George Michael. Charles Trenent is a treasure known to the French nation for the last 70 years; listen to this CD, and see what we poor, blinkered Britons have been missing all these years. This is the perfect introduction to the music of Charles Trenent, brought to us via the wonders of modern digital music technology.
Essential for nostalgia addicts January 15, 2001
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
Few people these days will have heard of Charles Trenet. I for one plead to ignorance until recently, when I was enlightened by Nicola & Martin, owners of "Volare", our wonderful local Mediterranean restaurant where I first heard some of this CD! Actually, "Boum" has featured fairly recently in a UK TV ad for private healthcare and is most likely to ring bells if nothing else does. Perhaps, like me, you'd heard it but not known who the performer was. Either way, delve beyond the joie-de-vivre, humour and vocal gymnastics of "Boum", and other facets of Trenet's artistic personality emerge, too. Far from being a mere amateur singer (as Maurice Chevalier apparently rather disparagingly described him) Trenet is as much a poet as a songwriter and performer (the term "singer" is inadequate, as you'll hear). I second another reviewer's comment that this CD contains much that is the perfect antidote to melancholy. But some of the songs could bring a lump to your throat, too; listen carefully to "Que-Reste-T-Il-De Nos Amours", or the lilting "La Maison Du Poete" and you'll know what I mean. There's depth and feeling here, as well as fun. The sound quality is fresh and where it's been transcribed from the old 78 rpm recordings the process has been executed well, and fortunately without the nasty, dead-sounding CEDAR noise reduction process being applied. An irresistably French CD, obviously written and performed with much love and enthusiasm, and highly recommended to anyone with a soft spot for French music and (idiosyncratic? well, sometimes) nostalgia.
The joy of listening to Charles Trenet December 14, 2000
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Sufferers of SAD this is for you, you cannot but feel uplifted when listening to Charles Trenet. His music is sunny and light, the words full of fantasy and sunshine. Take a glass of red wine, preferably from the Languedoc, turn on your brightest light and relax, delight in the French charm of Charles Trenet. Nothing better for a dark winter day! Try his Greatest Recordings 1937-1943 and listen to songs like 'Vous oubliez votre cheval'.Mad and full of fun!
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