Charles Aznavour - Vinyl Story

He was gifted with uncommon talents, and extraordinary tenacity. They enabled
Charles Aznavour to accomplish the difficult climb to glory without missing a footstep.
And thanks to his savoir-faire, he reached the absolute summit of world fame, at least
for a Frenchman. His influences were many – Armenian family, Jewish childhood,
idols who were jazzmen, and mentors in French song who made him a realist – and
Aznavour would create works whose original tone seduced a huge audience,
especially women.
This anthology brings together fourteen essential titles drawn from a period when
Aznavour was forging his temperament and honing those talents, an era in which he
sought, and found, his own path winding its way through rhythm, sensuality and
nostalgia.
In a career that lasted six decades Charles Aznavour appeared in sixty feature films,
and also found the time to compose the music for several others. He even wrote two
screenplays, one for “Menace” (1972), the other for “Yiddish Connection" in 1986. As
a songwriter, Aznavour wrote over one thousand songs, and as a performer he sang
in five languages, notably French and English, but also in German, Spanish and
Italian. Aznavour remains the best-known French singer in the world, with over 100
million sales to his credit.