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...APPELLE BARBRA (Columbia). Rue Streisand runs into Place Pigalle on her latest disk, which takes its flavor from an assortment of French songs (Autumn Leaves, Clopln dopant) arranged by Michael Legrand and sung, partly in English partly in French, by the Berlitz bombe. It may be gout americain, but it is still champagne...
...interviews rather than dialogue. Jacques Demy, on the other hand, painted his settings every conceivable color in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg to create a fairy-tale world. In contrast to Marker's candid sound-tracks, every word in Demy's film was sung to the tunes of Michel Legrand...
MARY POPPINS EN FRANCAIS (Vista). The Sherman brothers' songs "have made the rounds of the pop singers and the jazz bands and now turn up, very much at home, translated into French. Christiane LeGrand, the French soprano soloist of the Swingle Singers, tries to keep it sweet and simple but breaks into a bit of high-spirited scat singing in Un P'tit Morceau de Sucre and sounds, as they say in Paris, supercalifragilisticexpidelilicieux...
...generations some of the architectural heritage of America's past, and are joining forces to find the ways and means. Their latest victory, and one of the most notable of all, has just been won in the Connecticut industrial and commuting town of Norwalk. There Civil War Profiteer LeGrand Lockwood spent about $1,500,000 to build himself a 60-room chateau that is perhaps the finest example of Victorian architectural extravagance still standing...
Quarter to Three (U.S. Bonds; Legrand). His name really is U.S. (for Ulysses Samuel) Bonds, and he sings in a voice so gravelly that he suggests a whole convention of really nasty-sounding hop-trotters. The chaotic results are what buyers of this bestseller deserve...