I had mostly been familiar with French singer Brel's music through Scott Walker and David Bowie's English-language versions of some of his songs. It was nice to get a hit of the originals.
This is a live album, one that is slightly more polished and sterile than the offerings on this list so far from Sam Cooke and James Brown, but that approach is more suited to this music with a small orchestra backing Brel to create the lush and adventurous musical backdrops to his crooned stories.
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