Well, the CD person was back at the market today; the old stuff I saw turned out to not be nearly as good as I'd hoped. Ballads, cutesy kinds of movie songs, etc. But I did end up buying one CD, and I even got a half-euro discount on it. Ray Ventura & Ses Collegiens...no album title, really, but it's from the "Ciné-Stars" series. Can't find any dates, unfortunately, but someone told me they thought the album was post-war. Heh...most of the tracks are, like the compilation albums the vendor had, sickeningly cute songs you'd want to see Gene Kelly dance to. But this one 5 tracks you could swing to, another one I couldn't quite decide whether it was swingable, and something I wouldn't want to lindy to, but I think, w/ my total lack of experience actually DOING the dance, would make a fine balboa tune.
4. "La musique vient par ici" (240)
7. "Chez moi" (225)
12. "Si le nez de Cleopatre" (188) [quite good]
17. "C'est ce qui fait son charme" (234)
18. "C'est toujours ça d'pris" (248) [undecided]
20. "Tiens, tiens, tiens" (200) [quite good]
21. "Qu'est-ce qu'on attend" (294) [bal?]
She sounded willing to hunt down CDs for me, and the price is right ($4.80 per CD, just under $19 for 5), so I might take her the list of your suggestions.
I definitely need to find a cheap Paris Combo CD. They're starting a US tour in July...go to
www.pariscombo.com, I think. Should be a kickass concert...thank goodness they're hitting my college town during the schoolyear, not while I'm here in Paris.
My roomie's in the music industry, though, so I might see if she can find out about any unposted Paris concerts before they puddle-jump. Hmmm...too bad she's in the pop side of things. It'd be nice to be able to ask her to help me track down this music, but she still wants me to show her sometime what swing dancing
is.
