Charles Davis writes “Six songs recorded by legendary French singer Edith Piaf during World War
II have been discovered in the archives of the National Library in Paris.
The tracks were part of a stack of master recordings cleared out of the
basement of Polydor records in the 1960s.
Universal Music, which owns Polydor, had the masters transferred to CD and
plans to release them to mark the 40th anniversary of Piaf’s death in October
this year.
The tracks were bought by the National Library over 30 years ago but were left
to languish before being transferred to the library’s new home in eastern Paris
when it opened in 1996.
More at
The BBC.
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