The new, breathtaking feature film ‘La Vie en Rose’, is gripping audiences with the sensational story of Edith Piaf. Piaf’s talent included an uncanny ability to squeeze convincing passion and drama from the most bland material. Her years as a street singer had given her powerful lungs and a razor-sharp instinct for the right emotional register.

Hear the best remastered recording you’ll probably ever find of La vie en rose, on our best selling CD ‘La vie Parisienne’.  Buy the CD now http://stores.ebay.co.uk/PastPerfectVintageMusic, or download immediately from the Past Perfect website Download Store.

 “The recording is brilliant!”
“A wonderful compilation, well done indeed!”

Frequently hailed as the Frenchest of love songs, Piaf's 1946 hit La vie en rose is really a conceptual re-tread of a 1926 American number called 'Looking At The World Through Rose-Colored Glasses', albeit with a wholly different tune. The basic thrust of the song is that life is rosy when your lover murmurs the appropriate things in your ear - a timeless yet hardly earth-shattering message.

Immerse yourself in French chansons from the 1930s, and re-define ‘La vie Parisienne’.

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The 1920s, 30s & 40s were eras when social dancing was the norm – how many life-long romances started at the local Palais de Danse? The desire to dance cheek-to-cheek, promoted by a plethora of 78rpm record releases, stimulated by the appearance on film of super stars like Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire and underpinned by Arthur Murray and his many dance teacher equivalents, was served by a dance hall on every corner.  

Whether it was the village hop, the town excuse-me or the hotel ballroom, the music fulfilled the same basic need.  Get them on the floor and make them dance!  Tempos were set to encourage even the ‘wallflowers’ standing at the edge of the floor to come out and strut their stuff.

Of course, younger spirits wanted the music fast and hot to test their Charleston skills, or to Lindy Hop or jive, while those of a staider disposition thought the waltz and the quickstep the ultimate in sophistication.

Get the very best dance bands and big bands music from Past Perfect Vintage Music - we're keeping legends alive!

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