Georges Brassens was very fond of Marcel Amont.
He liked the man and he esteemed this artist who knew how to share his joie de vivre.
In 1974 the Sète master gave him a gift.
To his friend, he will simply say, “
It was my pleasure to give you a present
”.
Marcel Amont to thank him made it a tremendous success.
This pretty ritornello closes, like a bouquet of fireworks, the little anthology of the most beautiful songs that
Le Figaro
has concocted in tribute to the talent of the singer with an Occitan accent who left us in March at the age of 93 years old.
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Accompanied by Georges Brassens Marcel Amont sings
Mireille's Hat
With Marcel Amont, we irresistibly think of a bygone era when French song was at its peak.
He began opening for Philippe Clay during a Jean Nohan tour, then for Edith Piaf at the Olympia.
He received the Charles-Cros Academy Prize in 1959 with, excuse me, Juliette Gréco and Serge Gainsbourg.
After this recognition of the trade, he will know practically no more eclipse, some of these songs succeeding in full waves of pop, yé-yé or disco to do well in the charts like L'amour ça fait passe le temps
,
which sold over 500,000 copies.
From
Escamillo
to the
Chapeau de Mireille
(accompanied by Georges Brassens himself!), via
Le Mexicain
and the essential
Bleu, blanc, blond,
discover a selection of the best songs by Marcel Amont (in videos below), chosen by the editorial staff of Le
Figaro
1956:
Escamillo
by Christian Coulonges and Christian Roi, sung by Marcel Amont
1958:
Very sweet, very gently
by Frank Gérald, Pierre Delanoë for the French adaptation Troxel and Christopher, Ellis for the original in English, sung by Marcel Amont
1959:
Bleu, blanc, blond
by Jean Dréjac, Hal Greene and Dicks Wols, sung by Marcel Amont
1962:
Le Mexicain
by Jacques Plante and Charles Aznavour, sung by Marcel Amont
1965:
Maria et le pot au lait
by Marcel Amont, sung by Marcel Amont!
1971:
Love makes time pass
by Jean-Michel Rivat, Franck Thomas and Roland Vincent, sung by Marcel Amont
1974:
Le Chapeau de Mireille
by Georges Brassens, sung by Marcel Amont