PUBLISHED: Dec 19, 2010
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This video features a very nice English version of the famous French song "Couchés dans le foin" - written by Mireille and Jean Nohain and recorded by Pills & Tabet... for whom this song was their breakthrough... To this day it remains a very famous song in France. Mireille (Hartuch) and Jean Nohain are monuments in the world of French chanson.
More information on Mireille can be found here :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireille_Hartuch
More information on Jean Nohain :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Nohain
The Lew Stone orchestra was one of the best British bands of the 1930s featuring vocalists such as Al Bowlly and trumpeter Nat Gonella.
More information on Stone can be found here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Stone
Information on singer Al Bowlly (1899-1941) :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Bowlly
The video features sequences of summerly leisure in the 1930s...
About the record :
Decca
F. 3372 B / mx. GB. 5401-11D
London,
December, 23 1932
Record in very good condition,
This record was recorded with an Ortofon Om78cartridge and stylus. The equalization (Decca) and restoration was done as truthfully as possible