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Edith Piaf - Un refrain courait dans la rue, 1947

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Channel: 240252 · 2014 · Music

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Edith Piaf avec l'Orchestre dir. par Guy Luypaerts -- Un refrain courait dans la rue (A Refrain Run Into the Street) Valse (Musique de Chauvigny / Paroles Edith Piaf) Columbia 1947 (France)

NOTE: Among hundreds of the lovely songs recorded by Edith Piaf during her long career, this one has a special warm corner in my heart. It so VERY Parisian and the composition is a masterpiece of the lightness and Parisian charme. This record was a part of the record collection  in my family home and I listened to it as a schoolboy, imagining myself walking down the streets of Paris -- a dream, which in the depth of the communist gloominess in Poland of the 1960s seemed to be ridiculous and absolutely unattainable. In spite of that, I was eagerly attending my French lessons in the tiny flat of my teacher, who was Madame Natalie -- my mother's friend -- and listened from time to time to this record, believing more and more -- when closer and closer was the day of my matriculation -- that inevitably, one day I will get off my train in Gare du Nord station and "run down the streets of Paris" -- just like the refrain in Edith Piaf's song did. My dream was to become true in the summer of 1971, when -- after the strikes of December 1970, when Polish shipyards' rose in the rebellion against communism in Gdańsk and other seaside cities - the communist regime loosened its political deal and Poles for the first time after the 2nd WW - and as the only nation in East European communist Block - were given broader right of travelling to the West of Europe. So, in the age of 19  - I fulfilled my dream and  travelled to Berlin -- London and Paris, making my first encounter with the free world... And just imagine -- all that because of this little song 

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