Sonia Malkine – Sonia Malkine Sings French Songs

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Label:	Folkways Records – FW 8741, Folkways Records – FW8741
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Blue Cover
Country:	US
Released:	1964
Genre:	Folk, World, & Country
Style:	Folk

Tracklist

A1		En Passant Par La Lorraine = Passing Through Lorraine
A2		Dedans Marseille Vient D'arriver = In Marseille It Just Came
A3		Mon Pere Avait 500 Moutons = My Father Had 500 Sheep
A4		Les Noisettes = The Hazelnuts
A5		Prends Ton Fusil, Gregoire = Take Your Gun, Gregoire Written-By – Paul Feval*
A6		Voici La Saint-Jean = Here Is Saint-John Day
A7		Trois Jeunes Tambours = Three Young Drummers
A8		Allez-Allez = Go Away, Go Away
A9		Lou Baylero (Le Bayler) = The Baylero
B1		Passant Par Paris = Passing Through Paris
B2		Les Trois Fendeurs = The Three Wood-Cutters
B3		La Grenouille = The Frog
B4		La Jambe Me Fait Mal = My Leg Hurts
B5		Le Roi A Fait Battre Tambour = The King Called His Drummers
B6		Les Trois Marins De Groix = The Three Sailors From Groix
B7		Mon Père M' A Donne Un Mari = My Father Gave Me A Husband
B8		Sur Les Marches Du Palais = On The Palace's Steps

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Copyright © – Folkways Records & Service Corp.
Pressed By – Cook Laboratories, Inc. – CO886

Credits

Design, Cover – Ronald Clyne
Lute, Vocals, Liner Notes – Sonia Malkine

Notes

This version has a blue cover (another pressing of Sonia Malkine Sings French Songs exists with brownish cover).

Issued with 8 page booklet with lyrics, notes, and info about the songs.

This album features the French-American singer Sonia Malkine accompanying herself on the lute.

1st catalog number from cover and labels; 2nd catalog number from booklet.

Labels are blue with silver printing.

Cover, booklet and labels have © 1964 date + 43 W. 61st St., NYC, USA address.

Besides lyrics and notes about the songs, the booklet also includes a piece Sonia Malkine wrote that is reprinted from the magazine Sing Out! (Vol. 14, No. 3).

Too often associated with only Auvergne folk music, French folk music actually varies quite a bit from region to region, as these 17 songs illustrate.