French cabaret: Gesky - Une petite Femme dans un grand Lit, c.1926
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Channel: 240252 · 2016 · Music
Une petite Femme dans un grand Lit (A Little Lady In a Big Bed) Chanson (R.Sylviano), Disque Gramophone (France) c. 1926 NOTE: Paul GESKY (b. 1885 in Lyon – d. 1974 in Paris) French stage singer and actor, who in the 1920s performed in the Parisian music halls and vadeuville theatres, such as Alhambra, Olympia or Empire. He also recorded extensively during the acoustical recording era and through the 1920s. In later years, he appears occasionally in French movies, in the secondary roles. This song is a forgotten French varieté chanson of Les Années Folles, which however represents all the unique features of this genre: lightness, wit, zest and Gesky’s animated interpretation seems to supply all this (as well as his fabulous French pronunciation, which today seems to be rare and somewhat passée). See in my channel his rendition of the old international hit “When the White Lilacs Bloom Again” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie0gEJX030c
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