La Vie Parisienne: French Chansons From the 1930s & 40s Edith Piaf, Reinhardt & Grappelli

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    Various Artists - La vie Parisienne. Released 2006-05-29 on Past Perfect
    1. 00:00:00 Edith Piaf La Vie En Rose
    2. 00:03:12 Charles Trenet Boum!
    3. 00:05:49 Yves Montand Clopin-Clopant
    4. 00:09:10 Josephine Baker Si J'etais Blanche
    5. 00:11:57 Jean Sablon Rendez-Vous Sous La Pluie
    6. 00:14:37 Maurice Chevalier Toi Et Moi
    7. 00:17:36 QHCF Ultrafox
    8. 00:20:59 Edith Piaf Monsieur Lenoble
    9. 00:24:29 Tino Rossi J'attendrai
    10. 00:27:27 Jean Sablon La Derniere Bergere
    11. 00:30:33 Georges Ulmer Pigalle
    12. 00:33:34 Yves Montand Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)
    13. 00:37:05 Charles Trenet Les Retours Des Saisons
    14. 00:40:19 Edith Piaf Les Amants De Paris
    15. 00:43:35 Jean Sablon Un Baiser
    16. 00:46:59 Tino Rossi Poème
    17. 00:50:10 Charles Trenet Vous Etes Jolie
    18. 00:52:30 Lucienne Boyer Parlez-Moi D'amour
    19. 00:55:33 Reinhardt & Grappelli My Sweet
    20. 00:58:34 Charles Trenet La Mer
    21. 01:01:50 Yves Montand C'est Si Bon
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    The EC and the Channel Tunnel notwithstanding, the twenty-first century finds France and Britain still viewing each other suspiciously across the same twenty-five mile ditch, their centuries-old legacy of political rivalry and mutual opprobrium more or less intact. It does not help that the English insist on addressing their Gallic neighbours in GCSE French - a language unknown in France - and that the French themselves remain doggedly monoglot. However, one curious side-effect of this long-standing trans-Channel information gap is that each side secretly suspects the other of having a superior grasp of the universe, indeed of probably having a better time generally.
    Does this mean that much of the mystique surrounding the great French vocalists and French chansons - merely their word for ‘songs’ after all - is the result of wilful Anglo-Saxon self-delusion? The probable answer is yes, given that most of our parents and grandparents would have had few clues as to whether Edith Piaf (known as the Little Sparrow), Jean Sablon and Charles Trenet were singing about a lost love or a light lunch. However, this in itself is a sort of tribute to a generation of French singers whose talents were compelling enough to bridge the linguistic divide between them and their foreign audience.
    Delightful music for cafes, or coffee shops - imagine yourself back in time in Paris with relaxing chansons floating through the air.
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  • @PastPerfectVintageMusic
    @PastPerfectVintageMusic  Před 3 lety +514

    ♫ Buy CD or MP3 album with an additional 3 tracks, on the Past Perfect Music Store: bit.ly/2RozSQ1
    La vie Parisienne. Released 2006-05-29 on Past Perfect
    1. 00:00:00 Edith Piaf La Vie En Rose
    2. 00:03:12 Charles Trenet Boum!
    3. 00:05:49 Yves Montand Clopin-Clopant
    4. 00:09:10 Josephine Baker Si J'etais Blanche
    5. 00:11:57 Jean Sablon Rendez-Vous Sous La Pluie
    6. 00:14:37 Maurice Chevalier Toi Et Moi
    7. 00:17:36 QHCF Ultrafox
    8. 00:20:59 Edith Piaf Monsieur Lenoble
    9. 00:24:29 Tino Rossi J'attendrai
    10. 00:27:27 Jean Sablon La Derniere Bergere
    11. 00:30:33 Georges Ulmer Pigalle
    12. 00:33:34 Yves Montand Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)
    13. 00:37:05 Charles Trenet Les Retours Des Saisons
    14. 00:40:19 Edith Piaf Les Amants De Paris
    15. 00:43:35 Jean Sablon Un Baiser
    16. 00:46:59 Tino Rossi Poème
    17. 00:50:10 Charles Trenet Vous Etes Jolie
    18. 00:52:30 Lucienne Boyer Parlez-Moi D'amour
    19. 00:55:33 Reinhardt & Grappelli My Sweet
    20. 00:58:34 Charles Trenet La Mer
    21. 01:01:50 Yves Montand C'est Si Bon
    © Past Perfect Limited
    ℗ Past Perfect Limited

  • @lacouerfairy
    @lacouerfairy Před 7 lety +12942

    La Vie En Rose always reminds me of my high school French teacher. She was a stern elderly woman who had survived the War in France and would tell us stories of how she and her brother had to eat rats to keep from starving. She would play La Vie En Rose in our class and there would be tears in her eyes. She was a tough old broad but I loved her dearly. I found out she died of cancer a few years ago. I hope she knew that she made a difference in kids' lives.

    • @lucreziagentili9741
      @lucreziagentili9741 Před 6 lety +63

      lacouerfairy😍

    • @petertaylor3600
      @petertaylor3600 Před 6 lety +241

      To lacouerfairy: Why was it that French teachers were elderly and stern and feisty. Maybe sick and tired of English speaking kids trying to master French. I was terrified of mine.

    • @petertaylor3600
      @petertaylor3600 Před 6 lety +122

      ...But on the other hand, I know she was fair. I also have wondered what happened to her. I am sure she would have died now. Likely to have been a refugee from the Occupation of Paris in 1940.

    • @candicoated2001
      @candicoated2001 Před 6 lety +25

      World War II?

    • @user-hv7ro1cs9i
      @user-hv7ro1cs9i Před 6 lety +161

      Did she eat Remmy?!
      Just kidding, what a beautiful story, dear.

  • @JUBABU4
    @JUBABU4 Před 7 lety +11256

    All of us who listen, I believe we all met before more than 80 years ago.

  • @fizlfbzltjsmrkzofkzpgnsfpe3079

    Hi everyone ! I'm a native french, I live in France and of course I speak french.
    It made me so proud of France to see you all saying that the french is a beautiful language, that the songs are really romantic and melancolic,...
    So I decided to translate "la vie en rose" because some people asked 😊
    _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
    French :
    Des yeux qui font baisser les miens
    Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche
    Voilà le portrait sans retouches
    De l'homme auquel j'appartiens
    Quand il me prend dans ses bras
    Il me parle tout bas
    Je vois la vie en rose
    Il me dit des mots d'amour
    Des mots de tous les jours
    Et ça me fait quelque chose
    Il est entré dans mon cœur
    Une part de bonheur
    Dont je connais la cause
    C'est lui pour moi, moi pour lui dans la vie
    Il me l'a dit, l'a juré pour la vie
    Et dès que je l'aperçois
    Alors je sens en moi
    Mon cœur qui bat
    Des nuits d'amour à plus finir
    Un grand bonheur qui prend sa place
    Des ennuis, des chagrins s'effacent
    Heureux, heureux à en mourir
    Quand il me prend dans ses bras
    Il me parle tout bas
    Je vois la vie en rose
    Il me dit des mots d'amour
    Des mots de tous les jours
    Et ça me fait quelque chose
    Il est entré dans mon coeur
    Une part de bonheur
    Dont je connais la cause
    C'est toi pour moi moi pour toi dans la vie
    Tu me l'as dit m'a juré pour la vie
    Et dès que je t'aperçois
    Alors je sens en moi
    Le coeur qui bat
    English :
    Eyes that bring mine down
    A laugh that gets lost on his mouth
    Here is the portrait without retouching
    From the man I belong to
    When he takes me in his arms
    He whispers to me
    I see life in pink
    He tell me love words
    Everyday words
    And it does something to me
    He has entered in my heart
    A slice of happiness
    That I know the reason
    It's him for me, me for him in life
    He told me, swore for life
    And as soon as I see him
    So I feel Inside me
    My heart beating
    Nights of endless love
    A great happiness that takes its place
    Trouble, grief disappears
    Happy, happy to die
    When he takes me in his arms
    He whispers to me
    I see life in pink
    He tell me love words
    Everyday words
    And it does something to me
    He has entered in my heart
    A slice of happiness
    That I know the reason
    It's you for me me for you in life
    You told me I swore for life
    And as soon as I see you
    So I feel Inside me
    The beating heart
    _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
    I finished 😂😃
    Goodbye hope you have a good day 😁💕

    • @viola308
      @viola308 Před 3 lety +72

      merci beaucoup

    • @fizlfbzltjsmrkzofkzpgnsfpe3079
      @fizlfbzltjsmrkzofkzpgnsfpe3079 Před 3 lety +27

      @@viola308 de rien

    • @howardwayne3974
      @howardwayne3974 Před 3 lety +50

      Thank you so very much ! You have made my wife a very happy woman . I haven't seen her cry for joy in such a long time , but then , she hasn't had much reason to even though I try .

    • @fizlfbzltjsmrkzofkzpgnsfpe3079
      @fizlfbzltjsmrkzofkzpgnsfpe3079 Před 3 lety +38

      @@howardwayne3974 oml... I'm so proud :D now i know that i can make people from differents country happy lmao, i'm sorry if i make mistakes in english ^-^' does your wife really cried of joy ??? This comment made my dayyy

    • @triplec5902
      @triplec5902 Před 3 lety +19

      Thank you my friend, I want you to know that you are living my dream

  • @user-ef1sl4yl9e
    @user-ef1sl4yl9e Před měsícem +5

    French is a state of mind. They make an art of everything, even eating. I think I'll turn everything in my life into an art.

  • @EmmaAppleBerry
    @EmmaAppleBerry Před 6 lety +2396

    To feel homesickness for a place you've never been ♡

    • @Alison0305
      @Alison0305 Před 5 lety +35

      EmmaAppleBerry not the “correct” language, but the German word fernweh fits perfectly

    • @sarahsako4207
      @sarahsako4207 Před 4 lety +13

      this is described how i feel when i listen to this song :'(

    • @lesteryaytrippy7282
      @lesteryaytrippy7282 Před 4 lety +3

      @@Alison0305 agree it's fernweh

    • @eriss013
      @eriss013 Před 4 lety +2

      @@Alison0305 one close english word for it would be wander lust

    • @cc_ysd
      @cc_ysd Před 4 lety +8

      EmmaAppleBerry I believe the term you’re looking for is “Nostalgia”

  • @girly6265
    @girly6265 Před 6 lety +4227

    this is the album you hear quietly playing in the background when you're standing in your small but comfortable kitchen in the middle of paris, looking out of the window whilst holding a glass of wine in your left hand and cooking dinner for you and your love.

  • @nailpolishmadness
    @nailpolishmadness Před 5 měsíci +42

    As a parisian, this music make me miss a Paris that don't really exist anymore...

    • @BillClinton9-11
      @BillClinton9-11 Před 4 měsíci

      Thank your traitor politicians and the ultra wealthy globalist elite for that.

    • @edwardzarnowski5558
      @edwardzarnowski5558 Před 2 měsíci +4

      Ah ,but in your heart and mind...

    • @Bronasaxon
      @Bronasaxon Před 14 dny +1

      It can again. Or at least something a heck of a lot closer then what exists now. Its the same throughout Europe and America.

  • @aminaebrahim7154
    @aminaebrahim7154 Před 3 lety +59

    I miss my home back in Paris, I miss my little flat with my Grandmere telling me stories from ww2, singing to me, and us chatting about silly little things when I was a little girl. I miss home, I miss the great love of my life, my first and only love, dead. My Grandmere, still here but not alive, I miss them both. I will never forget the love brought by these songs. The great love of my life proposed to me while Edith paif played. Thank you universe, for this, for my joy, and my pain, I love them, I love whoever is reading this, I love you.

  • @odette6328
    @odette6328 Před 6 lety +4395

    Me: sadly doesn't understand what they're saying
    Also me: *Aah~ so romantic and nostalgic*

    • @whatsupnothing4016
      @whatsupnothing4016 Před 6 lety +9

      haha .true =)

    • @madamii
      @madamii Před 5 lety

      @Nordic Hebrew 😑

    • @OneTrueWord1988
      @OneTrueWord1988 Před 5 lety +13

      DAPHNE Study French! You will love it!

    • @madamii
      @madamii Před 5 lety +11

      @@OneTrueWord1988 I should study, the language sounds so beautiful!

    • @chiaracoucou1401
      @chiaracoucou1401 Před 5 lety +4

      If ou want it i can translate it to you in English!!! Juste indicate me the song(s)

  • @adrienmateo549
    @adrienmateo549 Před 4 lety +2040

    this is giving me flashbacks to a memory i've never experienced

    • @ParamitaRana
      @ParamitaRana Před 3 lety +16

      Same here ❤️

    • @enouement4670
      @enouement4670 Před 3 lety +21

      For an odd reason, yes.

    • @God_Help_Me11
      @God_Help_Me11 Před 3 lety +16

      Man I also remember riding with the bois to Paris in some panzers. Good times... makes me wanna cry

    • @lady00303
      @lady00303 Před 3 lety +25

      past life memories, are a thing.. you know. (despite what organized religion teaches us)

    • @rheasunter7053
      @rheasunter7053 Před 3 lety

      Fr tho

  • @annienizami1326
    @annienizami1326 Před rokem +2

    Went to Paris in 2018....I lived for the first time for 15 days after 46 years...

  • @valentinar4953
    @valentinar4953 Před 4 lety +300

    Someone listen to this in 2020? During quarantine?

    • @Bread_and_Breast
      @Bread_and_Breast Před 4 lety +5

      Yup lmaoo, these songs help me get my mind off things and I begin to clean and etc. I even made baguette a type of french bread :/ XD

    • @alvarocm_
      @alvarocm_ Před 4 lety +1

      heree

    • @boomfilms8406
      @boomfilms8406 Před 3 lety +2

      It’s the end of the world what can I say

    • @nielsworkout2364
      @nielsworkout2364 Před 3 lety +2

      I'm here too buddy. Wish we lived in the 30s 40s

    • @valentinar4953
      @valentinar4953 Před 3 lety

      @@nielsworkout2364 me too 😭

  • @laorinfilet6579
    @laorinfilet6579 Před 5 lety +1469

    Imagine: small apartment. Sun shining through the blinds creating lines on the ground. The room glows with cheerful yellow. Newspapers and photographs lay on the coffee table. You had found this record at the thrift shop for two dollars and you put it on out of curiosity. You remember back to a conversation you had with the handsome friend you’ve known for three years. His smile is engraved into your mind. You laugh, you smile. Your cat glares at you across the room watching you slow dance awkwardly. The wind blows through the windows and rattled the blinds and sweeps the hair into your face as you spin.
    Life isn’t perfect, but this moment is.

    • @LinNil-gz3je
      @LinNil-gz3je Před 4 lety +3

      Nobody gives a fuck bout your opinion , get lost Fake living being

    • @michaelwiebers9656
      @michaelwiebers9656 Před 4 lety +52

      @@LinNil-gz3je Hell of a name for a hater!

    • @albertbrown9635
      @albertbrown9635 Před 4 lety +23

      Best image I have is in La Madelina looking back at my new bride lying naked on the bed, covers tossed aside with the Mediterranean sun streaming thru the shutters I've just opened, the sound of the restaurant below and the smell of sea and garlic. The music was Italian not French. 48 years later, I still remember. Keep thinking Laorin.

    • @spice_cake
      @spice_cake Před 4 lety +6

      Kindness World well I suppose I am a bit of a Nobody, but I don’t believe the profanity was necessary

    • @kritische3959
      @kritische3959 Před 4 lety +12

      No call for your meanness, Kindness World. Your name and your attitude is such an oxymoron lol.

  • @Anna-sl2bw
    @Anna-sl2bw Před 6 lety +3253

    This counts as studying French right?

    • @henryb3066
      @henryb3066 Před 5 lety +158

      Oui

    • @ghostlyghoul
      @ghostlyghoul Před 5 lety +103

      Yeah my French teacher tells me to listen to French music all the time to study, so helpful

    • @Odinsday
      @Odinsday Před 5 lety +59

      This kind of French music is just so damn peaceful.

    • @kimiko495
      @kimiko495 Před 5 lety +7

      Of course no kiddin

    • @Mopsbpv
      @Mopsbpv Před 5 lety +21

      Absolument

  • @SoundwaveCoffee
    @SoundwaveCoffee Před 3 lety +815

    My dad passed away two weeks ago from COVID and I'm so glad I found this. This is exactly the kind of thing he'd listen to. He was from mexico and only spoke spanish and english, but loved music from all cultures. His latest phase was romantic italian songs. I downloaded duolingo for him so he could learn italian and try and understand the songs. Thank you for this. It brought me a little bit of peace.

    • @francinest-onge8042
      @francinest-onge8042 Před 3 lety +16

      Bless you ! keep strong ! i will keep you in my heart !!!!

    • @robloxadventures7368
      @robloxadventures7368 Před 3 lety +17

      I am so sorry for your loss, I hope you are happy and your dad is happy. Don't worry, your dad is in a happy place watching down from below. :)

    • @missgrace9952
      @missgrace9952 Před 3 lety +3

      @@robloxadventures7368 sorry for your lost!

    • @nimue-sebastiandemontparna8984
    • @dogguyful
      @dogguyful Před 2 lety +5

      I'm sorry about your dad. Everything is OK. Death is part of life too.

  • @sylvieschneider3482
    @sylvieschneider3482 Před 25 dny +3

    C'est malin. J'ai retrouvé un Amour d'Adolescents, un flirt avec ce garçon que je n'ai jamais oublié, recherché pendant 15 ans et retrouvé après s'être perdu de vue pendant 50 ans.
    Nous voilà qui retombons amoureux comme des Ado ! Certaines chansons me font monter les larmes aux yeux....... Magnifique liste Merci 💘

  • @spookygowrl
    @spookygowrl Před 5 lety +1214

    Anyone listen to these to calm down or take away anxiety?
    Edit:i am so glad you guys agree, I still listen to this even after 2 years:)

    • @TakuCityPop
      @TakuCityPop Před 5 lety +29

      Ain't this the truth. I listen to it when doing my coursework so I don't get stressed out. You are totally correct. This playlist makes you feel alive and not just a drone going through life.

    • @omfbello
      @omfbello Před 4 lety +3

      Yes

    • @cherrylee2884
      @cherrylee2884 Před 4 lety +3

      Yeees

    • @DiriuX
      @DiriuX Před 4 lety +3

      Yeeeeeeesss💕

    • @custerr
      @custerr Před 4 lety +3

      Yes

  • @olgadoo
    @olgadoo Před 7 lety +698

    My old soul is feeling really nostalgic.

    • @imzyk3857
      @imzyk3857 Před 5 lety +20

      Your comment made me well up. I always have a spot spot for old eras.. feels like I don't really belong in this century

  • @jmichi9913
    @jmichi9913 Před 3 lety +47

    Anybody want to go to france after listening to this

    • @pourquoipas2673
      @pourquoipas2673 Před 3 lety +2

      Just came back in July after 8 1/2 months there and want to go back... forever. Nowhere better than Europe for me. France 🇫🇷 of course is number 1.

    • @ShalomAlem
      @ShalomAlem Před 3 lety +1

      I always want to go france LOL

    • @aimee-dw1co
      @aimee-dw1co Před 3 lety

      same

    • @ghitanajid3893
      @ghitanajid3893 Před 3 lety +2

      france is not like what people think it is, its neighbour switzerland is as close as what an expensive paradise looks like, I prefer it to france

    • @spikulu3229
      @spikulu3229 Před 3 lety +1

      Me too, even if I'm in France right now ;) and all days long

  • @glugs3356
    @glugs3356 Před rokem +3

    Lie on my roof look into the sky
    Just enjoy what you've got while it's still here. Nothing lasts long

  • @claranadine1086
    @claranadine1086 Před 5 lety +1824

    Me: * has no understanding of French *
    Also Me: * pretends to know the words and sings them loudly *

    • @niccolopaganini4268
      @niccolopaganini4268 Před 4 lety +30

      No joke I can't say a sentence in French, but I think my French accent is quite good and it'd be perfect with like a year of practice

    • @SmellOfSunflower
      @SmellOfSunflower Před 4 lety +28

      I'm french so I do the same with English ;)

    • @raffireal
      @raffireal Před 4 lety +7

      ISN´T IT FUN?!!! HEHE I started learning french that way rs!

    • @victorianbarbie
      @victorianbarbie Před 4 lety +21

      *confidenly mumbles in cursive*

    • @zanettisilvia_
      @zanettisilvia_ Před 4 lety +1

      That's me

  • @michaelmika2995
    @michaelmika2995 Před 5 lety +2044

    I was born in Paris 75-years ago and grew up listening to this music thanks to my maman. We lived in the 18-eme arrondissement near Montmartre, where Edith gained fame in Paris. We came to this great country in 1952 and ended up in Queens. I now live in N.H. Thanks to the brave Americans, I am here today. In 1943 bombs were falling left and right and my father put me and my mother on a train to Ellon, Normandy. We were a few miles from Caen, a city leveled by the bombing, and survivedth D-Day invasion. We went swimming at Arromanches after the war. I still remember the three sunken Liberty ships facing the coast and all the DUK-boats. Thank you to the brave, who died fighting, so that we can now live in peace. I, too, am an immigrant.
    I set foot on this land on this day, March 3, 1952 from Paris, France. As you can probably tell, I listen to this song often, my maman's favorite. I know she can hear this and it is in her honor and memory. We came here on the, "Ile de France." I was seasick for six, agonizing days. It was worth it. Crying right now.....Michel

    • @anneoboyle426
      @anneoboyle426 Před 4 lety +65

      Merci beaucoup pour vôtre story! My family came from Alsace-Lorraine and Belgium...Bienvenue aux États Unis!

    • @duridia2000
      @duridia2000 Před 4 lety +61

      Merci for sharing such cherished memories... i am an immigrant too, but my story is not nearly as interesting as yours...However, i have felt nostalgic too.
      I am now Married to the best French man and hopelessly in love with him, his culture and everything French!
      Vive la France !!!

    • @inezguzman1606
      @inezguzman1606 Před 4 lety +45

      Your story has touched my heart.

    • @michaelmika2995
      @michaelmika2995 Před 4 lety +68

      Made it to 76.!!

    • @joanschilleci7564
      @joanschilleci7564 Před 4 lety +54

      Michel, As I am listening to the beautiful voice of Edith, I am so enjoying your post. Twenty five years ago this past year, my husband and I were blessed to have been able to have taken a 17 day belated honeymoon to the French and English countryside. I had sailed to France on the SS France with my brother and my mother in 1972. From the moment we sailed from NY city and passed the Statue of Liberty, the all French crew spoke nothing but French which was wonderful. We landed in Le Harve and took the boat train to Paris. We stayed 3 weeks on the Left Bank and spent the next 3 weeks in Italy. But in 1994 when my husband and I were on our honeymoon walking the beaches of Normandy with old soldiers who said "the last time we were here, "Nazis were shooting at us"; it felt like we were walking through history. We ate lunch at a small restaurant nearby where there was a sign that said "Welcome to our American liberators". Going to the American Cemetery and seeing all of the crosses and stars of David, changed our loves forever. Young people don't realize that "freedom is not free"; somebody had to pay the price so that we were able to be free. Your parents and mine were members of truly "The Greatest Generation". I also grew up listening to music. I would like to believe that your maman and my own precious are listening to this beautiful song in heaven. I also am crying now.

  • @avaoreo7527
    @avaoreo7527 Před 2 lety +7

    I'm 16 years old and I love jazz songs like these

  • @v.mvijayan2716
    @v.mvijayan2716 Před 3 lety +3

    I'm indian but love to listen parisian songs

  • @femkevalenkamp5460
    @femkevalenkamp5460 Před 5 lety +1418

    I love reading the comments and seeing how everyone has their own interpretation of this kind of music. One person might see themselfs sitting on a balcony bathing in the sun and the other dreams of rainy days and resting inside. It only shows how music is a universal language but we al have a different dialect.

  • @cathypeck
    @cathypeck Před 4 lety +1454

    I'm crying because my french grandma knows all the lyrics to la vie en rose and she remembers her old days in france. While she listens to it, she slightly cries and tells stories about her father knowing German so they didnt get killed by the nazis.

    • @pourquoipas2673
      @pourquoipas2673 Před 3 lety +26

      My grandparents and 2 daughters didn't speak German. They survived. It was not a required qualification for who lived or or who died.

    • @MOGGS1942
      @MOGGS1942 Před 3 lety +85

      @@pourquoipas2673 It probably helped though.

    • @fluffycloud3529
      @fluffycloud3529 Před 3 lety +4

      Omg hi I've seen you around on yt! I think we responded to each other's comment's before or something!

    • @wueroramos4480
      @wueroramos4480 Před 3 lety

      Zaz

    • @pourquoipas2673
      @pourquoipas2673 Před 3 lety

      @@fluffycloud3529 who are you answering to?

  • @blendi8456
    @blendi8456 Před 4 lety +2

    Believe it or not, i'm 13 and i love this unlike all the other teenagers. This is real music❤

    • @acmarston
      @acmarston Před 4 lety

      Classical music never loses popularity. Why should this?

  • @Ritter2749
    @Ritter2749 Před 4 lety

    I can't feel more french, solidarity with you my beloved nation...I'm not French, stand in the face of coronavirus... and never give up

  • @francesvansiclen1444
    @francesvansiclen1444 Před 7 lety +1047

    Paris, 1920, outdoor cafe, music playing- wow, just wow !

    • @cuthigh1917
      @cuthigh1917 Před 6 lety +13

      I was just dreaming of that before reading your comment.

    • @MauricioColchado
      @MauricioColchado Před 5 lety +9

      Don't forget sexism

    • @basiic967
      @basiic967 Před 5 lety

      Frances Van Siclen france didnt exist before the 40s..

    • @reggiebell7291
      @reggiebell7291 Před 5 lety +18

      Basiic † what are you on? France was established in 1789!

    • @GrumpyStormtrooper
      @GrumpyStormtrooper Před 5 lety +22

      the sadness of all your male relatives and friends having died in WW1, those were really good times.

  • @insertidentifierhere2001
    @insertidentifierhere2001 Před 7 lety +809

    I'm so proud to be french ! Salutations à vous, chers français !

    • @benjiii3407
      @benjiii3407 Před 6 lety +5

      Fox McCloud im taking French classes. Wonder if u could say a couple statements and see if I can respond to them

    • @barbieg9877
      @barbieg9877 Před 6 lety +12

      Depuis quand apprends-tu le Français ? Pourquoi as-tu voulu apprendre la langue ? :) (we'll see if you've made some progress during these 2 months :p)

    • @petertaylor3600
      @petertaylor3600 Před 6 lety

      You too!

    • @petertaylor3600
      @petertaylor3600 Před 6 lety +2

      La plume de ma tante est dans le jardin.

    • @petertaylor3600
      @petertaylor3600 Před 6 lety +3

      Josephine Baker's flat accent isn't quite right, but everybody loved her in Paris.

  • @lroule4540
    @lroule4540 Před 3 lety +1

    💁Josephine Baker~my dad's favorite! Beautiful! ❤️🇺🇸

  • @matteoverdi4835
    @matteoverdi4835 Před rokem +1

    I absolutely love the French language and music I'm part French

  • @kayciepaige7116
    @kayciepaige7116 Před 6 lety +498

    I can just imagine strolling down one of the cobble streets at night, sparkling lights glistening all around and the Eiffel Tower standing tall in the distance. This music playing from somewhere. Ugh take me to the past plz.

    • @TakuCityPop
      @TakuCityPop Před 5 lety +7

      Ah you and I think the same. Such beautiful music isn't it?

    • @patrickcummins79
      @patrickcummins79 Před 5 lety +19

      just return before the Germans invade..

    • @ajfffon1748
      @ajfffon1748 Před 5 lety +7

      Kaycie Paige I was imagining the same thing ! I wish I could live a life in peace in Pairs on 1940-1960s ✨

    • @davkatjenn
      @davkatjenn Před 4 lety +8

      Go to Paris if you have never been. Walking along the streets is on the left bank is an experience that everyone should have.

    • @grimblemcgribble4664
      @grimblemcgribble4664 Před 4 lety +2

      Blitzkrieg intensifies

  • @Mar-xs3hg
    @Mar-xs3hg Před 7 lety +2197

    This kind of music makes me nostalgic even if I wasn't alive during those times 😂 maybe a past life who knows

    • @julsbarracuda9892
      @julsbarracuda9892 Před 7 lety +14

      Same xD

    • @annasorz2417
      @annasorz2417 Před 6 lety +67

      Mariana I feel the same way and then I start crying of mixed feelings 😂🤔

    • @Raphael-ed3zs
      @Raphael-ed3zs Před 6 lety +74

      the best is to walk in the old streets of Paris and listening this.. alone of course . you can feel this old time

    • @s41nt_tv10
      @s41nt_tv10 Před 6 lety +61

      For me i think it has something to do with Disney movies.

    • @yassqueen6251
      @yassqueen6251 Před 6 lety +47

      I get nostalgic with every era idk I love history 🤷🏼‍♀️

  • @derekwallace5510
    @derekwallace5510 Před 2 lety +10

    My mom was sick a few years ago, she stressed herself out into catching pneumonia. She recovered, but at the time I had picked up my omi (German grandmother) and we were going to visit my mom in the hospital. I was actually listening to the Louis Armstrong cover of La Vie En Rose, and my grandmother was humming and wordlessly singing along to it. A year or so later, my grandmother passed away due to complications with lung cancer. But I think of her every time I hear that song, no matter who sings it or in what language.

  • @amreliah7118
    @amreliah7118 Před 2 lety

    to miss a home you've never live in, to miss a place you've never been to, and to be nostalgoc for a memory you know you don't have. it's called "hiraeth" and it's my favorite word

  • @annikastauffenberg4842
    @annikastauffenberg4842 Před 4 lety +104

    I am studying French...Love to France from Russia ❤🇷🇺

    • @1000eau
      @1000eau Před 4 lety +2

      Bonne chance ^^

    • @luniqueful
      @luniqueful Před 3 lety +1

      Привет. Любовь в Руся
      (From France. Hope it makes sense ^^')

    • @crusellweber
      @crusellweber Před 3 lety

      Et j'étudie le russe ;) La bise depuis la France ! ^^

    • @CHORALIE66
      @CHORALIE66 Před 3 lety

      love russia from france !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @deetoritod9366
    @deetoritod9366 Před 5 lety +617

    Its as if my soul and spirit have heard this before i was even born..

  • @Natalia-pc7fm
    @Natalia-pc7fm Před 3 lety +44

    I lived in Paris from 2000 to 2002, and learnt French quickly by listening to these songs and the musical Notre Dame de Paris. And having a French boyfriend came in pretty handy too!

  • @beezb728
    @beezb728 Před rokem +1

    l feel l have lived 2 or 3 past lives in France... and can't shake that love for Paris for nothing! 🥰❤🌹

  • @somedays2290
    @somedays2290 Před 4 lety +3063

    The internet is such a good place i'm meeting all my friends after reincarnation.

  • @silentalchemy1
    @silentalchemy1 Před 7 lety +418

    In 2017, in Mumbai, listening to this as I cook alone and drink some. Loneliness and bliss have a strange equation :)

    • @toxicturtle9077
      @toxicturtle9077 Před 6 lety +37

      Greetings from the United States. Strange how music can connect people from around the world. Hm...

    • @textucker1158
      @textucker1158 Před 6 lety +8

      Beautiful nostalgia.

    • @MrVishalmangalorkar
      @MrVishalmangalorkar Před 6 lety +7

      same

    • @benjaminklaassen4722
      @benjaminklaassen4722 Před 6 lety +4

      I'd have to agree with you, Turtle. Guess it's just one of those things, huh?

    • @anjunaruka2925
      @anjunaruka2925 Před 5 lety +2

      Same India , didnt understand the lyrics but this all music is so amazing.

  • @gregoryjosephfarrelllewis8449

    Le français n'est pas seulement la langue de l'amour, mais aussi la langue de la musique. J'adore ces chansons.

  • @lorettapozo9041
    @lorettapozo9041 Před 3 lety +3

    This music plus a croissant 🥐 and a cup of coffee ☕️. 😌😌😌😌😌😌😌

  • @5Puff
    @5Puff Před 4 lety +656

    Listening to French music, while speaking English, and learning german
    boom

    • @10karamel37
      @10karamel37 Před 4 lety +19

      bilingual badge achieved

    • @jasminecastro3084
      @jasminecastro3084 Před 4 lety +2

      Dead Channel literally me right now

    • @5Puff
      @5Puff Před 4 lety +2

      @@jasminecastro3084 lmao nice

    • @awacat3114
      @awacat3114 Před 4 lety

      @@5Puff boom boom

    • @studioroque6370
      @studioroque6370 Před 3 lety +9

      Dead channel listening to french music, while speaking Spanish and English, and learning Portuguese because is sexy ... boom ajajajja

  • @alatarnowska7538
    @alatarnowska7538 Před 5 lety +122

    Imagine, as you are walking trough Paris in the late evening you stop to listen to one of the bands playing in the restauraunt nearby. You decide to walk inside, maybe buy a cup of tea and sit down for a second.
    You are here, sipping the hot drink your whole body is slowly melting due to the romantic music. In the middle of your fouvrite song a man appears next to your little table and holds out a hand "m'am, would you like to have a dance with me?"

  • @RubenSanchez-qw2zx
    @RubenSanchez-qw2zx Před 3 lety +5

    ...and that my son, is how I met the most beautiful woman in the world, your mother😊
    I wish I got to see her...she sounds like the best mom in the world!
    She might not be here with us, but somewhere up in the sky, she’s smiling down on us wishing you a happy birthday!

  • @julliasolver5528
    @julliasolver5528 Před 3 lety +82

    Im not even french... even my relatives didnt travel in france... but i just love french classical musics😍 it makes me calm

    • @hello-xm5il
      @hello-xm5il Před 3 lety +5

      ...this isn't classical. It's from the early 1900s

    • @julliasolver5528
      @julliasolver5528 Před 3 lety +1

      @@hello-xm5il sornaagad 😂.. my bad, i just adore it sooo much

    • @sarahbear2032
      @sarahbear2032 Před 6 měsíci

      It's good for the soul

  • @pink2977
    @pink2977 Před 7 lety +724

    makes me wanna go to Paris.

    • @Raphael-ed3zs
      @Raphael-ed3zs Před 6 lety +7

      you are welcome !

    • @newyorkpotioncastle
      @newyorkpotioncastle Před 6 lety +6

      yes its a very unique sensation

    • @bobbytherapper5739
      @bobbytherapper5739 Před 6 lety +3

      zep mirales hey!!i love the vintage music so much!so romantic,I’m going to Paris to the hotel Paris Marriott Champs Elysees Hotel!!♥️

    • @warrior40k40
      @warrior40k40 Před 5 lety +53

      Its not what it used to be 😕

    • @amuletk
      @amuletk Před 5 lety +2

      Aller, vite!

  • @Normlaure0
    @Normlaure0 Před 6 lety +344

    Great selection! I am a 'newly minted' Frenchman (formerly British)! LIved here for almost thirty years, and married to a French Parisienne I met in Australia 40 years ago. Lived in Paris and did the whole Bohemian bit, then travelled, and also moved around France including the Lot, Burgundy and now finally settled in the Correze. Lived the dream, listened to the music and now adopted the whole thing! How lucky can one man be?

    • @koalatheworld
      @koalatheworld Před 5 lety +7

      Lucky man indeed!

    • @dandalo_7825
      @dandalo_7825 Před 5 lety +1

      Norm Clark Wow!I aspire to be like you!

    • @babsdemarco
      @babsdemarco Před 5 lety +1

      goals, for sure

    • @domitius
      @domitius Před 4 lety +5

      @0 That's Actually a Unisex name where I come from. My great grandfather on my mothers' side was named Angelica Mathius Goodman

  • @debguess5533
    @debguess5533 Před 3 lety +11

    😭 reminds me of a sweet French lady I took care of for 7 years, what a blessing to know her.

    • @enriquecatalahuerta2832
      @enriquecatalahuerta2832 Před rokem

      La hermosa música francesa tan llena de recuerdos maravillosos inolvidable, gracias.

  • @crazybeans1214
    @crazybeans1214 Před 3 lety +1

    Old songs and french songs calm me down that's why I sleep listening to them🥴

  • @isabelleon6495
    @isabelleon6495 Před 6 lety +350

    I cry because I know I will never get live a life I have loved and will never get to experience...

    • @bigvirgonrg
      @bigvirgonrg Před 5 lety +52

      same...music like this makes me feel....idk, such a strange feeling. like as if I have heard it before and long for it and for an era I will never experience, yet somehow feel like I have. so strange

    • @paulwalker853
      @paulwalker853 Před 5 lety +8

      You shall

    • @boobzluver60000
      @boobzluver60000 Před 5 lety +2

      @@paulwalker853 yes, they shall

    • @mapallesiruko6472
      @mapallesiruko6472 Před 4 lety +9

      Same like i was born in the wrong time, that i was so late to experience the wonderful things like before.

    • @krell2130
      @krell2130 Před 4 lety +17

      a life changing revelation for you, my sweet:
      if you sit and imagine something so hard, so detailed and with such passion...
      ...in the years to come, you won't remember if you imagined it or experienced it

  • @josesantamaria6539
    @josesantamaria6539 Před 5 lety +118

    Whenever i am in Paris, this is my music, but when i am back in America i play it and i close my eyes and it will take me back to my apartment in the latin quarters.

    • @cassandrarodriguezalmaguer8943
      @cassandrarodriguezalmaguer8943 Před 3 lety +1

      Was it like a fairytale? Bc I wanna go so bad

    • @pourquoipas2673
      @pourquoipas2673 Před 3 lety +1

      @Samantha I love the 18°. So diversified. Ok, St Germain des Près is nice too. But so is most of Paris. Non?

    • @jaimeleschats5543
      @jaimeleschats5543 Před 3 lety

      @@cassandrarodriguezalmaguer8943 There's dog poop everywhere, but otherwise, yes, just like a fairytale.

  • @vibheshmishra1192
    @vibheshmishra1192 Před 3 lety +2

    Oh thats gr8... M an Indian... nd dont understand French much... but loved these songs....

  • @jackymonique8833
    @jackymonique8833 Před měsícem +1

    DES INCONDITIONNELS D'EDITH PIAF MERCI

  • @wolfie8748
    @wolfie8748 Před 6 lety +169

    I find lots of people listening this sadly, I can't meet people who love's songs like this.
    They just love pop songs..

  • @julxxtt
    @julxxtt Před 5 lety +112

    I’m not an emotional person at all BUT THIS MAKES ME EXTREMELY HOMESICK IT MAKES ME CRY. I’m not French but I sometimes wonder if I was in my past life.

    • @michaelwiebers9656
      @michaelwiebers9656 Před 4 lety +10

      I know how you feel. Any antique music. I enjoy Polish music also.. Two countries whose fabric of life was ripped from them by Adolph.

    • @jestemszlafrok528
      @jestemszlafrok528 Před 4 lety

      @@michaelwiebers9656 ohh, Polish music

  • @cernunnos5843
    @cernunnos5843 Před 4 lety +11

    Comment vous voulez ne pas être nostalgique en entendant ça...? Impossible ! Vive la France 🇫🇷

  • @aminaebrahim7154
    @aminaebrahim7154 Před 3 lety +3

    I come here to remember my Grandmere, and to sing with my maman, I miss her every day, Grandmere, I love you. I miss you

  • @ncpiedmontone
    @ncpiedmontone Před 6 lety +616

    When Paris was Paris, and France was still so very alive.......

    • @sidoniekalla3756
      @sidoniekalla3756 Před 6 lety +117

      Paris is no longer the dream city where I had the chance to live in the 1960's. Years later, when I went back, I, sadly enough, no longer found the 2 old ladies with their cat looking from the window of their little 3 table-restaurant at Rue Garancière, Paris 6ème!

    • @ariesmight4141
      @ariesmight4141 Před 5 lety +8

      True.

    • @user-fr9vv7rg4k
      @user-fr9vv7rg4k Před 5 lety +63

      it still is, you guys are romanticising this way to much.

    • @danielstraight4503
      @danielstraight4503 Před 5 lety +53

      @@user-fr9vv7rg4k Paris is dying before our eyes.

    • @apeking7099
      @apeking7099 Před 5 lety +51

      Yes! Perfect 1940 german France 😍😍

  • @oliverb.3588
    @oliverb.3588 Před 6 lety +42

    I don't speak french, and I'm actually a big fan of rock music, but this is my 'guilty pleasure' if you can call it like that

    • @michaelwiebers9656
      @michaelwiebers9656 Před 4 lety +4

      Isn't it sad that people have to conform. You should be able to enjoy any music openly. Remember this music is before and during WWII.

    • @CharlottevdVeen
      @CharlottevdVeen Před 4 lety

      @@michaelwiebers9656 shit, it's a shame people don't explore out of (usually) comformity, there's so, SO much good, yet extremely different stuff out there.

    • @jakestilson1947
      @jakestilson1947 Před 4 lety

      Happy for you enjoying this. People are still playing this music. Why not check out beautiful Tatiana Eva Marie and Avalon Jazz (based in US-believe it or not). I`m sure that you will enjoy/

    • @michaelwiebers9656
      @michaelwiebers9656 Před 4 lety

      jakestilson1947
      Have no idea where to find this.

    • @jakestilson1947
      @jakestilson1947 Před 4 lety

      Easy Michael. I`m useless on computers but you will find them all on wonderful CZcams. Just type in artist`s name, Song title , whatever and they will do the rest. Try Josephine Baker for a treat or Charles Trenet. Bonne chance.

  • @user-be9ce9ly8z
    @user-be9ce9ly8z Před 3 lety +2

    Moi,je suis étudiant qui apprend le français.
    J’adore les chansons de cette époque.
    Mes préférées sont 2e,5e,9e,13e,16e,17e,20e.
    Particulièrement,13e et 20e.
    cependant,en tout cas,toutes chansons françaises et le français sont belle.
    mais le français est difficile.
    Merci pour chansons magnifiques

  • @maracristal
    @maracristal Před 3 lety +9

    Je préfère plus ces musiques que le rap d'aujourd'hui vive les vieilles musique elles sont si belles ! 💛💛😆

    • @wedge2058
      @wedge2058 Před rokem +1

      Certaines des musiques actuelles sont encore très belles

  • @ddinitialssarahcouture2768
    @ddinitialssarahcouture2768 Před 6 lety +248

    I am French 🇫🇷 and it s make me remember my grand parents Thanks ♥️

    • @m.s7183
      @m.s7183 Před 5 lety +1

      for realzies!

    • @m.s7183
      @m.s7183 Před 5 lety +1

      YEAH FOREALZIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

    • @m.s7183
      @m.s7183 Před 5 lety +1

      DAM GURL!

    • @jadejove521
      @jadejove521 Před 5 lety

      Ta dit quoi 😂

    • @ye4601
      @ye4601 Před 4 lety +1

      These songs make me remember of my great grandparents who would listen to old music and jazz. Hearing music like this gives you nostalgia you never had. Like being a 2000s kid but getting nostalgia from smashing pumpkins 1979

  • @kylanicolexx4712
    @kylanicolexx4712 Před 4 lety +576

    i am using this as my background music while studying.
    makes me more motivated to study well and be successful so i can visit Paris someday and experience all these stories in the comment section.

    • @pinkeypie1966
      @pinkeypie1966 Před 3 lety +1

      If you are studying then how did you type this

    • @MOGGS1942
      @MOGGS1942 Před 3 lety +1

      Sadly, I couldn't study and listen to music at the same time. My brother could, however, and I envied him that ability.

    • @MOGGS1942
      @MOGGS1942 Před 3 lety +5

      @@Thomassonable Vast swathes of the UK are also now shit holes. No go areas for the indigenous, non muslim, population.

    • @miravavillamin1595
      @miravavillamin1595 Před 3 lety

      this is insane! cause girl SAME

    • @wayra1404
      @wayra1404 Před 3 lety

      @@Thomassonable same here !!

  • @bubbletea6934
    @bubbletea6934 Před 2 lety +2

    Ah yes, the days when I danced with my friends in a French bar listening to these songs
    That is How I Met Your Mother, everyone

  • @canadianbuddy6309
    @canadianbuddy6309 Před 3 lety +2

    Am a Canadian Indian...but i love to play this old french song when i wakeup n morning..😘😘

  • @kirstinemajlund352
    @kirstinemajlund352 Před 5 lety +17

    Two days ago it was my "konfirmation" a Scandinavian tradition of confirming your Christianity and throwing a huge party. I had written a letter for my biological dad and then he showed up in the church with his mom and when I had eye contact with him the world stopped for a moment. I don't hate my dad, he has his own family so I don't blame him. Yesterday he visited me and told me he hadn't even seen the letter, he just really wanted to come anyway.
    We agreed that it was very awkward because the last time we saw each other was 7-8 years ago. He said that it was very uncomfortable since he can't call himself my dad, but I don't care. He's my dad, even though he wasn't there for me as a child. Sometimes you don't have to start at the beginning. I love him very much.

    • @emilywilson3408
      @emilywilson3408 Před 3 lety

      I am inspired by your courage. I hope your relationship with your biological father continues to grow in love. ♥️

  • @kierafrancisco8433
    @kierafrancisco8433 Před 4 lety +84

    This song gives me strange feeling like i lived in France from my past life. Im homesick to a place I have never been. I want to go to France now!😪

    • @fredericbenoit3210
      @fredericbenoit3210 Před 3 lety +1

      You re welcome.
      These are the musics that the old french like me listen to.
      The new generation more less.
      Come to France.
      Where are you from?

    • @danyjackson1456
      @danyjackson1456 Před 2 lety

      @@fredericbenoit3210 pvd

  • @chenopeech4289
    @chenopeech4289 Před 3 lety +32

    Hey yall, me n my girl aren't doing to good, and I think we are at this point just waiting for the right time to break up with the other 😔, it kinda hurts, but this music really eases me and makes me think about all my blessings. Thanks for the awesome music, and if your reading this, someone loves you and you'll go far in life.😁🙏

    • @simritrandhawa
      @simritrandhawa Před 3 lety +4

      i hope you're doing well. breakups hurt, even when u know it is the right thing to do. just remember that whatever is meant to stay in your life won't be so difficult. i hope for better days for you :)

    • @chenopeech4289
      @chenopeech4289 Před 3 lety +1

      @@simritrandhawa thank you so much 🙏 means a lot

    • @jamessullivan1742
      @jamessullivan1742 Před 3 lety

      hi there how are you?

    • @Paperbackfilm
      @Paperbackfilm Před 2 lety

      What happened my man?

    • @strasbourgeois1
      @strasbourgeois1 Před 2 lety

      Hopefully you’re still doing fine.

  • @kokonutt9987
    @kokonutt9987 Před 4 lety +72

    I’m Ethiopian, don’t know French but this music makes me feel so relaxed and calm.listening it with my girl and dancing to it is soooo great!!hope all of u r enjoying it!!

  • @MyNguyen-oz5cq
    @MyNguyen-oz5cq Před 4 lety +26

    Is it weird that a 16-year-old girl has a very old taste of music like this ? Well actually it doesn't matter , I just love it!

    • @tudngalgix
      @tudngalgix Před 4 lety

      @@anttwo PFFFT

    • @5Puff
      @5Puff Před 3 lety +2

      Just another "I was born in the wrong generation" person

  • @tpr9839
    @tpr9839 Před 4 lety +69

    Je suis Québecois et je suis fier que mes ancêtres proviennent de ce merveilleux pays! J'vous aime en tabarnak les français :)

    • @shahradkf7584
      @shahradkf7584 Před 3 lety +1

      :')

    • @user-ry6ey8gq3t
      @user-ry6ey8gq3t Před 2 lety +3

      Vive le Québec Libre

    • @percyvalle921
      @percyvalle921 Před rokem +3

      🇲🇫❤🇲🇶 vive le Québec libre !

    • @patrickamorsi3510
      @patrickamorsi3510 Před rokem

      Moi aussi je vous aime les Canadiens

    • @denislaferriere2693
      @denislaferriere2693 Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@patrickamorsi3510 un québécois ne se definit pas comme un Canadien....etre canadien est une chose et être Québécois en est une autre....c'est pas une question de territoire....c'est dans le coeur et dans l'âme....

  • @henri9947
    @henri9947 Před 4 lety +8

    when it started with la vie en rose, I knew this was going to be beautiful

  • @fwvipra
    @fwvipra Před 4 lety +2

    la vie is so beautiful omg

  • @jesusgenerationeverywhere
    @jesusgenerationeverywhere Před 6 lety +53

    I don't understand french, but the music is so good...nostalgic... melancholic... perfect for a saturday winter lazy afternoon, with a cup of tea...lying carelessly on an armchair and recalling your childhood memories...
    God bless the memories

  • @electraheart6250
    @electraheart6250 Před 5 lety +149

    This makes me so sad and nostalgic. I wish I lived in France during this time. But I also wish I was alive in America around the 50s-60s. And the 70s,80s,90s, and I wish I could’ve been a teen in the early 2000s. God I hate everything nowadays.

    • @garymarkow7005
      @garymarkow7005 Před 4 lety +29

      So you wish you lived in France during the Great Depression, subsequent Nazi occupation, and the Holocaust?

    • @ccasque
      @ccasque Před 4 lety +11

      @@garymarkow7005 I think she/he has some dreams ? Like good ideas about these times thanks to the music, and maybe styles
      The war was terrible but not the music, the music make us dream and we want to be born in our .... Dreams ?

    • @ccasque
      @ccasque Před 4 lety

      Same ! 30s 50s 70s 90s musics and styles are so..... Perfect, we can't return to these days so what can we do right now, listen to music , that's good 😊

    • @garymarkow7005
      @garymarkow7005 Před 4 lety +4

      @@ccasque that's fair :)
      And I mean we've got some pretty good music now and quite a bit that stylistically is like music from those eras (grunge/punk didn't really die, 80s music is back around in the form of bedroom pop bands like Wallows, you've got bands like Dr Dog that do 60s-70s-esque rock, and surf punk bands that do 50s sounding rock like the Yetis or Summer Salt)

    • @isabellaalarcon218
      @isabellaalarcon218 Před 4 lety +15

      Be glad you were born now when you get to enjoy all types of music, you don't have to deal with the horrible wars and diseases of that time and not to mention all the other societal problems that occurred then. Not only do you get to enjoy the music, but you also have it at your fingertips for free none the less. Be happy that you are privileged to live in the time you live in.

  • @triplec5902
    @triplec5902 Před 3 lety +3

    Ahhhh Paris... I’ll see you someday my friend. Sitting in front of the Eiffel Tower with my love at sunset....

  • @Moni-k-if1qp
    @Moni-k-if1qp Před 4 lety +45

    Does this music brings you memories of an era and a place u weren't born in???
    Or its just me 🥺

    • @zita_444
      @zita_444 Před 3 lety

      you're not alone

    • @bedazzledangel4669
      @bedazzledangel4669 Před 3 lety

      #16 makes me feel like I'm slow dancing by the Eiffel Tower with my crush 💕💕😚

    • @stephenbyrne3512
      @stephenbyrne3512 Před 3 lety

      Yes - Moni k - hi

    • @americansoapproductstm8206
      @americansoapproductstm8206 Před 3 lety

      I am a year late to this comment. I am ethnically French but my Great Grandparents emigrated to the US somewhere in the 1910's or 1920's. I am guessing it was either because of World War 1, or the political instability in France at the time. I don't know it just captivates me, like finding a shining light in a void of darkness. It makes me feel lost.

    • @jamessullivan1742
      @jamessullivan1742 Před 3 lety

      hi

  • @bluelittlebunnyboy8266
    @bluelittlebunnyboy8266 Před 4 lety +73

    These songs aged like fine wine.

  • @82dorrin
    @82dorrin Před 4 lety +11

    Vive la France! You have a beautiful culture.

  • @kize66
    @kize66 Před 3 lety +4

    As romantic and beautiful as this music is, it came during the worst time in European history since The Plague...
    Tens of millions of people died because of war... May we never know the hardships that the people of my parents and grandparents generation faced...
    But yes, they enjoyed this beautiful music, and so do I... So much better than the electronic and mindless crap that makes up most of today's music...

  • @teresavalley2725
    @teresavalley2725 Před 4 lety +94

    Cool, I just finished learning French fluently, now I can understand what the music translates to. Edith Piaf is the reason I wanted to learn french when I was 12, it got me this far, and I'm proud if that.

    • @Suikevrije
      @Suikevrije Před 2 lety +3

      a noter quand meme que plus personne ne parle comme ça aujourd'hui

    • @eric27lion
      @eric27lion Před rokem +1

      Bonjour

  • @and.my.heartyouknowhim378

    listening to this from iran...

    • @TakuCityPop
      @TakuCityPop Před 5 lety +1

      Glad you could enjoy this beautiful music with us.

  • @violetSoupy
    @violetSoupy Před 5 lety +54

    I imagine myself...
    The year is 1933, and I'm eight years old. It's a cold winter night in Paris, maybe a Friday. My mother's picked me up after school to take me into the city center. We need to find a nice dress for me to wear to my cousin's birthday party on Sunday, and a friend of my mother's has told us about a small, yet high quality dressmaker's shop.
    "Violette, what colour dress would you like?"
    My mother asks.
    "Blue! Or maybe purple...green? Oh, I don't know, Mama!"
    My mother smiles and we walk through the cobbled streets until the stumble upon the dressmaker's shop. A sweet, elderly lady smiles at us and greets us as we walk in, asking what we would like. We browse around a few of the clothing racks, and I see it. A perfect little lilac dress, with puffy sleeves and a lot of lace! I'd look like a princess...
    My mother and I walk out of the dressmaker's shop with the new dress, and the elderly lady waves us goodbye. I skip as I walk, so excited to have a beautiful new dress.
    "You certainly have an eye for good taste, my girl!"
    My mother laughs. Suddenly, her eyes light up as she catches sight of a small sign protruding from a building. It reads, "CAFE ROSETTA". I know this one! One time after church, my friend from school told me that she was going to come here, and asked me to join her. Of course I agreed, and I'm glad I did, because this café made the best Mont Blanc I've ever had!
    "Shall we go here again?"
    My mother's grinning like a child, pointing to the sign. I nod happily, and we walk in together. Instantly, the sound of this music running through the radio fills my ears. It's beautiful...and my mother and I sit down at a table.
    "I love you very much, my sweet Violette."
    "I love you too, Mama!"

    • @Regular_Lemon_
      @Regular_Lemon_ Před 4 lety +11

      7 years later you suddenly see people running and police directing people to bunkers, you look up and there are airplanes, then sirens start to sound and you see soldiers approaching from afar

    • @nikhilsamayam6196
      @nikhilsamayam6196 Před 4 lety +2

      @@Regular_Lemon_ lol

    • @ecolefrench
      @ecolefrench Před 3 lety +7

      If you haven't alread i think you should consider becoming a writer. Your writing is very descriptive!!!❤

    • @violetSoupy
      @violetSoupy Před 3 lety +6

      @@ecolefrench ohhhh my gosh, this comment was a while ago!! thank you so much, i'm happy to say that my writing skills have definitely improved since i posted this comment. i don't know if i'll go into writing novels, but I'd love to make stories and plots around videogames in the future!! got to get through school first, though :(((

    • @ecolefrench
      @ecolefrench Před 3 lety +3

      @@violetSoupy definitely go for it, I think you've something!

  • @paulbrener8120
    @paulbrener8120 Před 2 lety +2

    Vive la France 😊🇫🇷!

  • @ivanbukac4618
    @ivanbukac4618 Před 2 lety +11

    I listen to this when I am extremely anxious and stressed out. I never thought 1930s french music, expecially Edith Piaf, would put me under such a spell. 5 years ago I would've teased myself or somebody if they listened to this.
    Now I think I understand. There is no word to describe this, but I understand...

  • @user-gx9hk8gt3k
    @user-gx9hk8gt3k Před 7 lety +9

    French oldies but goodies!

  • @krystle9508
    @krystle9508 Před 6 lety +77

    I have loved “La Vie En Rose” since I watched Sabrina (1954) Audrey Hepburn & Humphrey Bogart were lovely...20 years later and I still watch it once a week ❤️

  • @jinkstkittensen99
    @jinkstkittensen99 Před 3 lety +2

    Cheers to all the old souls out there

  • @richardgraham5051
    @richardgraham5051 Před 2 lety +5

    I am overwhelmed with emotion every time I hear Charles Trenet sing "La Mer"

  • @Goat_Eye
    @Goat_Eye Před 5 lety +7

    This music makes me yearn for something I've never experienced before

  • @mikehobart
    @mikehobart Před 8 lety +700

    So many great voices here. For me there's always something special about the pre-war French singers.

    • @KDZX4
      @KDZX4 Před 7 lety +41

      I know right. These songs remind me of the times I used to go to my grandma's. She always had her radio on and these kind of songs played. Now she's gone, so that feeling has gone with her.
      And yes I'm french. :D

    • @tobiasboston5663
      @tobiasboston5663 Před 7 lety +21

      Vyal _ I'm American and while I've heard this style of music before I've never heard of any of these songs or artists before. Very unique snd very beautiful! Cette musique est très belle!! It lives on even in foreign countries in the 21st century!

    • @tranquil_reading
      @tranquil_reading Před 7 lety +11

      I'm American and somehow recognize this music. I made my way to Germany via my studies/work and met my wonderful, French boyfriend ^^ Maybe I was French in my past-life lol

    • @maybeimchau2102
      @maybeimchau2102 Před 7 lety +7

      Mary Katherine that sounds like a sweet love story :"
      lucky you ^^

    • @KDZX4
      @KDZX4 Před 7 lety +8

      We french are everywhere :D

  • @ChrisGurin
    @ChrisGurin Před 8 měsíci +7

    My mother used to play Piaf when I was little. She would always look a little wistful, as if remembering a time and place she would never tell me about. She passed this June, and I will never know where and when this music sent her.

  • @hirodeplaylist6563
    @hirodeplaylist6563 Před 3 lety +1

    C'est là qu'on est fier d'être français!

  • @bradhefty6744
    @bradhefty6744 Před 6 lety +165

    I have absolutely no clue what is being said but it is such a beautiful language to just listen to especially when it comes to music. Hope I can learn French someday

    • @1785edouard
      @1785edouard Před 4 lety +3

      Just do, you will enrich yourself. Courage!

    • @margotlandspurg2432
      @margotlandspurg2432 Před 4 lety +6

      Commencez maintenant,Monsieur, il vaut mieux commencer à apprendre une langue le pus tôt possible: plus l'on vieillit, plus c'est difficile...Et, moi qui suis Française, je vous le dit: pour nous, le Français est presque évident, du moins si on le parle correctement, mais les doutes nous assaillent bien vite. Pour des étrangers, la langue Française est une horreur, mais il ne faut pas se décourager. Pensez que son orthographe a été fixée au Moyen-âge et vous comprendrez mieux les écritures qui peuvent sembler étranges.
      (Start learning it now: the more you get older, the more difficult it is to learn a language. As a French myself, I can tell you this language is a nightmare for all who try to learn it, because the orthography (hope it's an english word) was decided during the middle ages, and because we think it's obvious, we can not explain it very well. Keep working and you will master it one day.)
      Good luck!

    • @ic6269
      @ic6269 Před 3 lety +1

      Just finished watching the movie, Hugo...sigh...had to listen to more French music.

  • @cassiopee26
    @cassiopee26 Před 6 lety +25

    What I love about those types of songs is not only the good cheering music, but their lighthearted lyrics on the everyday little things. Why people are not doing this anymore?

    • @RzSnR
      @RzSnR Před 5 lety +3

      technology

    • @queerlibtardhippie9357
      @queerlibtardhippie9357 Před 4 lety +2

      because times are always changing. get used to it.

    • @sophiaschier-hanson4163
      @sophiaschier-hanson4163 Před 4 lety +1

      Be the change you want to see. Why not try your hand at writing some songs with a similar feel?

    • @cassiopee26
      @cassiopee26 Před 4 lety +1

      Sophia Schier-Hanson I actually started :) I sing in a gospel choir (not necessarily for the religious side, but for the joy it brings me) and started writing some songs. ☺️

  • @heatherhutchinson3625
    @heatherhutchinson3625 Před 3 lety +134

    My life belongs to the past. That's why I don't have friends in the present.

    • @autumnsankofa1307
      @autumnsankofa1307 Před 3 lety +6

      You are going to be my senior quote. Thank you

    • @addqwerty8374
      @addqwerty8374 Před 3 lety +4

      that's totally me, I don't know why they can't feel how good 30's songs is.

    • @sweetie4915
      @sweetie4915 Před 3 lety +3

      I agree, that is also me to a tee!

    • @sweetie4915
      @sweetie4915 Před 3 lety +1

      @WorkingLikeA Bitch You cannot buy friendship, friendships bought are a superficial, cheap, and unsatisfactory thing. This is either a bad joke or very poor advice.

    • @sweetie4915
      @sweetie4915 Před 3 lety +3

      You have a very healthy perspective. Appreciating and preferring the golden age of our time makes your heart golden as well. Merry Christmas to you!