Le belting
Régine Crespin does her “New York has neon, Berlin has bars” routine on a French variety TV show “Palmarès des chansons” circa 1967. She sings her version of one of the greatest hits of the evergreen entertainer Mistinguett, the chanson “C’est vrai!”.
A video excerpt of this performance (featuring Mme. Crespin “entourée de danseurs avec plumes”) may be found on the Place aux Chansons website.
Before this goes into the Parterre archives, just 2 words–Howard Keel!
Just want to say I loved the clip of Regine- and always enjoy the forrays into any other bit of theatricality. Please don’t change a thing la Cieca!
As for Rogers & Hammerstein – and a heap of other musicals, don’t care what anyone says- long before I graduated to become an opera queen, I started out as a musical queen (and love em still).
I feel sorry for the angry mr Annony mouse. Life must be a constant challenge for the poor pet.