Dis-Moi, Josephine
La Petite Tonkinoise
Pretty Little Baby
J'ai Deux Amours
Voulez-vous de la canne à sucre? (avec Adrien Lamy)
Dis-Moi Joséphine
Aux Îles Hawaii
Love Is A Dreamer
My Fate Is In Your Hands
You’re Driving Me Crazy
Mon Rêve, C’était Vous
Sans Amour
Ram-Pam-Pam (With Pills & Tabet)
Les Mots D’amour
Si J’étais Blanche
Madiana
C’est Lui
Haiti
Sous Le Ciel D’afrique (With The Comedian Harmonists)
Partir Sur Un Bateau Tout Blanc
La Conga Blicoti
Vous Faites Partie De Moi (I’ve Got You Under My Skin)
C’est Si Facile De Vous Aimer (Easy To Love)
C’est Un Nid Charmant (There’s A Small Hotel)
Comme Une Banque (I’m Feelin’ Like A Million)
Sur Deux Notes
De Temps En Temps
Bonsoir, My Love

Josephine Baker, chant

Here is the finest single CD selection available of the legendary American-born Josephine Baker (1906-1975), truly one of the most remarkable black figures of the 20th century. She was an outstanding entertainer with a uniquely seductive manner, expressed in song with a distinctive voice. Possessed of a magnificently athletic body, exotic nudity was central to her scandalous performances at Les Folies-Bergères where, clad only in a girdle of bananas, she introduced the Charleston to Europe. Yet she went on to win both the Croix de Guerre and the Legion d'Honneur for her wartime Résistance work, and later also became known for her ‘rainbow tribe’ of homeless children of many nationalities. This Retrospective album presents a superb selection of 27 of Josephine Baker’s most famous original recordings from her 30s heyday, including, naturellement, her theme song J'ai deux amours (i.e. her country and Paris), and such perennial favourites as La petite Tonkinoise and our title track Dis moi, Joséphine. Most of the tracks are sung in her seductively American French, including charming gallicized versions of such as Cole Porter’s I’ve Got You Under My Skin and Easy To Love, but there are also representative titles in English (e.g. My Fate Is In Your Hands and You're Driving Me Crazy).