With Love (Amanda Lear album)
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With Love is the thirteen studio album by French
singer Amanda Lear
, released on October 16, 2006 by Dance Street.
by French singer Amanda Lear
, first released in France in October 2006, and launched in the rest of Europe in early 2007. The aptly titled With Love covers evergreens and jazz standards by the disco divas own favourite divas, among them Eartha Kitt
, Dalida
, Peggy Lee
, Mae West
, Nina Simone
, Marlene Dietrich
and Juliette Gréco
. This tribute is a continuation of the ballad classics included on 2001's Heart
, "Hier Encore (Yesterday When I Was Young)", "The Look Of Love" and "Lili Marleen".
The album was released by ZYX Music
Germany in 2007 with a bonus live recording of the track "Johnny", and in 2008 in Italy under the title Amour Toujours with two recent re-recordings of Lear's Seventies hits "Queen Of China-Town" and "Tomorrow" as bonus tracks. The album was re-reissued by ZYX Music again in November 2008, then as a midprice release under the title My Baby Just Cares for Me - but without any of the bonus tracks.
Amour Toujours CD bonus track
I convinced my record company, German at the time, to include some evergreens among the disco tracks, such as "Lili Marleen", "As Time Goes By", "Fever", "Magic Moments" etc.
Today I want to pay tribute to the female singers who so beautifully have sung of Love, Passion and Desire. "Torch singers" that everybody remembers. Many of the songs included here were sung by different artists, as it was usual in the fifties and the sixties. I discovered them through the artists that I dedicate each song to, but don't forget, of course, there are other fabulous singers; Doris Day
, Judy Garland
, Josephine Baker
, Edith Piaf
, Billie Holiday
, Mina
, Dusty Springfield
, Dionne Warwick
, Diana Ross
etc.
The lyrics talk about the most important thing in life: Love!
Some are happy (Cole Porter's "C'est Magnifique"), some are ironic ("Si La Photo Est Bonne", "Whatever Lola Wants"), others are blue and disillusioned ("Love For Sale", another Cole Porter song). I also chose signature songs from Juliette Gréco
("Deshabillez-Moi") and Nina Simone
("My Baby Just Cares For Me"). We could not forget Marlene Dietrich
, Hildegard Knef
, Dalida
and the most touching of them all; Peggy Lee
's "Is That All There Is?"
Oui, tonight I'm in the mood for love...
With love
Amanda Lear"
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
singer Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....
, released on October 16, 2006 by Dance Street.
Album information
With Love a.k.a. Amour Toujours a.k.a. My Baby Just Cares for Me is a cover albumCover Album
-Tracklisting:#Misono to Utaou! Animedley I # #...
by French singer Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....
, first released in France in October 2006, and launched in the rest of Europe in early 2007. The aptly titled With Love covers evergreens and jazz standards by the disco divas own favourite divas, among them Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt
Eartha Mae Kitt was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby." Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the...
, Dalida
Dalida
Dalida , born with Italian name of Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a world-famous singer and actress born in Egypt with Italian origins but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti. She spent her early years in Egypt amongst the Italian Egyptian community, but she lived most of her adult...
, Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and...
, Mae West
Mae West
Mae West was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades....
, Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...
, Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
and Juliette Gréco
Juliette Gréco
Juliette Gréco, — also Michelle – is a French actress and popular chanson singer.-Early life and family:Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier to a Corsican father and a mother who became active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France. She was raised by her maternal...
. This tribute is a continuation of the ballad classics included on 2001's Heart
Heart (Amanda Lear album)
-Personnel:*Amanda Lear - lead vocals*Cécile Maestre - backing vocals*Sandrine Foguère - backing vocals*Judith Flessel-Toto - backing vocals*Stefano Meghenzani - piano, Rhodes & accordion*Patrick Bacqueville - trombone*Nicolas Baudino - flute, saxophone...
, "Hier Encore (Yesterday When I Was Young)", "The Look Of Love" and "Lili Marleen".
The album was released by ZYX Music
ZYX Music
ZYX Music is a German record label which was founded in 1971 by Bernhard Mikulski. Until 1992, the label's name was Pop-Import Bernhard Mikulski. The label specialized in disco and early house music. Founder Bernhard Mikulski is credited with coining the term Italo disco in the 1980s...
Germany in 2007 with a bonus live recording of the track "Johnny", and in 2008 in Italy under the title Amour Toujours with two recent re-recordings of Lear's Seventies hits "Queen Of China-Town" and "Tomorrow" as bonus tracks. The album was re-reissued by ZYX Music again in November 2008, then as a midprice release under the title My Baby Just Cares for Me - but without any of the bonus tracks.
Track listing
European CD bonus trackAmour Toujours CD bonus track
Liner notes
"Long before it became trendy, I covered songs of my favourite singers.I convinced my record company, German at the time, to include some evergreens among the disco tracks, such as "Lili Marleen", "As Time Goes By", "Fever", "Magic Moments" etc.
Today I want to pay tribute to the female singers who so beautifully have sung of Love, Passion and Desire. "Torch singers" that everybody remembers. Many of the songs included here were sung by different artists, as it was usual in the fifties and the sixties. I discovered them through the artists that I dedicate each song to, but don't forget, of course, there are other fabulous singers; Doris Day
Doris Day
Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
, Judy Garland
Judy Garland
Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...
, Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker was an American dancer, singer, and actress who found fame in her adopted homeland of France. She was given such nicknames as the "Bronze Venus", the "Black Pearl", and the "Créole Goddess"....
, Edith Piaf
Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...
, Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
, Mina
Mina (singer)
Anna Maria Quaini, Grand Officer , known as Mina, is an Italian pop singer. She was a staple of Italian television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice, and her image as an...
, Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...
, Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....
, Diana Ross
Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
etc.
The lyrics talk about the most important thing in life: Love!
Some are happy (Cole Porter's "C'est Magnifique"), some are ironic ("Si La Photo Est Bonne", "Whatever Lola Wants"), others are blue and disillusioned ("Love For Sale", another Cole Porter song). I also chose signature songs from Juliette Gréco
Juliette Gréco
Juliette Gréco, — also Michelle – is a French actress and popular chanson singer.-Early life and family:Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier to a Corsican father and a mother who became active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France. She was raised by her maternal...
("Deshabillez-Moi") and Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...
("My Baby Just Cares For Me"). We could not forget Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
, Hildegard Knef
Hildegard Knef
Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef was a German actress, singer and writer. She was billed in some English language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff.-Early years:...
, Dalida
Dalida
Dalida , born with Italian name of Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a world-famous singer and actress born in Egypt with Italian origins but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti. She spent her early years in Egypt amongst the Italian Egyptian community, but she lived most of her adult...
and the most touching of them all; Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and...
's "Is That All There Is?"
Oui, tonight I'm in the mood for love...
With love
Amanda Lear"
Personnel
- Amanda Lear - lead vocals
- Yvon Chateigner - record producerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
- Alain Mendiburu - record producer
- Leonard Raponi - produced, arrangement
- Jun Adashi - production assistant
- Romain Joubert - pro-tools assistant
- Vincent Lépée - sound engineer
- Leonard Raponi- keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, programming - Pierre Bertrand - pianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
- Christophe Galizio - drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration... - Alain Bernard - keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, co-arranger on "Love For Sale" - Lionel Campana - concert master
- Yves Martin - backing vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
- Leonard Raponi - backing vocals
- Concept and titles selection: Amanda Lear
- Julien Daguet - photography
- Amanda Lear's hairstyle by: Christophe at Claude Maxime, ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
- Design - Vincent Malléa and Aurélien Tourette, inthemoon
Alternate album editions
- 2007: With Love (German Edition). Bonus track; 13. "Johnny" (Live). (Germany, ZYX Music YC151166).
- 2008: Amour Toujours; Italian release of With Love with 2 new songs. Track 1: an updated dance version of "Queen Of China-Town" and Track 2: a salsa version of "Tomorrow" (Italy; Saifam COM 1185-2)
- 2008: My Baby Just Cares for Me (Germany, ZYX Music)