PARIS, MON AMOUR (MELODIEN EINER WELTSTADT)

back 1982


PARIS, MON AMOUR

835 979-2, Polydor Germany

  1. Moulin Rouge (3:00)
  2. Plaisir d'amour (3:20)
  3. La Seine (2:29)
  4. Sur Le Ponts d'Avignon (3:12)
  5. Et Maintenant (4:00)
  6. La Mer (3:58)
  7. Charmaine (4:08)
  8. Ballade Pour Adeline (3:14)
  9. La Vie En Rose (4:37)
  10. L'Important C'Est La Rose (4:13)
  11. Petite Fleur (3:23)
  12. Dolannes Melody (3:32)
  13. If You Go Away (4:31)







Review
We end this review on a romantic Parisian night – PARIS MON AMOUR – in which James Last serenades you with strings aplenty – with a side trip to the disco ballroom with Charmaine from his 1978 WORLD HITS IN DISCO LP. In this set, Last absolutely stands apart from Lefevre, Caravelli, Pourcel or Mauriat by sticking to the idea of a consistently string and trumpet arrangement played softly for after dinner dancing in between the candlelit tables and the backlit Champs Elysees. All these popular French chansons define romance in a subtle wordless way as only maestro James Last can elicit from them. One closing gift by James Last: the vocal crooner’s solo on If You Go Away – the famous Jacques Brel composition – is enough to justify owning this album alone.

- ALAN CHONG