RARE UK PRESS BARBARA SINGS BARBARA 1965 Philips LP
£
343
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455
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BARBARA (Born Monique Serf, June 9 1930 - died Nov 24 1997)
Monique Andree Serf, born in Paris France, into a Jewish family, was ten years old when she had to go into hiding during the German occupation of France in World War II. After the war ended, a neighborhood professor of music heard Monique sing and took an interest in helping her develop her talents. She was given vocal lessons and taught to play the piano and eventually she enrolled at the Ecole Supérieure de Musique. However, money was a problem and she gave up her musical studies to sing at "La Fontaine des Quatre Saisons," a then popular cabaret in Paris.
A sensitive girl, she was deeply scarred by the war and her family's plight. Her inner feelings of emptiness experienced at this stage in her showed in her appearance and in her songs, particularly "Mon Enfance". It is reported by Barbara in her interrupted (assembled from notes found in her house at Precy-sur-Marne) autobiography, "Il Etait un Piano Noir", that her father sexually abused her when she was ten. He would later leave the family never to return. Barbara went to his burial in Nantes, which originated one of her most popular songs ("Nantes"), immortalizing that time in her life.
Above information courtesy of wikipedia - for more on Barbara, click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Serf
THOUGH WELL KNOWN IN FRANCE BARBARA WAS AND STILL IS COMPLETELY UNKNOWN IN THE UK. NOT SURPRISINGLY THEN, IN 1965 WHEN PHILIPS RECORDS ISSUED THIS ALBUM FOR THE BRITISH RECORD BUYER, IT SOLD NO MORE THAN JUST A FEW COPIES MAKING THIS ONE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS BRILLIANT CONDITION, A VERY RARE ALBUM INDEED.
BARBARA SINGS BARBARA
accompanying herself at the piano
PHILIPS BL7700 MONO (1965)
MADE IN ENGLAND
PHOTO 1. Shows the reverse side of the cover.
PHOTO 2. Shows the front cover and track listing.
PHOTO 3. Side 1. label
PHOTO 4. Side 2. label
RECORD CONDITION: BRILLIANT - Just one single light spindle mark on each side suggests it was played just once and the vinyl looks mint.
SLEEVE CONDITION: SUPERB - Bright white laminated front cover with just the slightest bump to top right corner otherwise mint.
BID WITH CONFIDENCE !
SOUNDS ORIGINAL Ltd is a long established Record Shop in West London. Mail Order since 1978 - Shop trading since 1983 specialising in original records from the 1950s & 1960s
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