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Supplique pour etre enterre a la plage de Sete

His 1966 album, issued untitled from a working tape made at home after a musicians' strike stopped the studio sessions.
Georges Brassens, 1966

The album was released in November 1966 as a Philips LP, untitled and known by its first track. It was recorded in July 1966 as a working tape at Brassens's house in Crespieres, though a Philips insert says Paris and a footnote on French Wikipedia corrects it. The final studio sessions planned for late October were prevented by a musicians' strike, so Philips pressed the working tape and called it a document. The engineer was Jean Bonzon, with Roland Guillotel assisting, on a three-track Ampex. Brassens plays voice and guitar and Pierre Nicolas the double bass, with no second guitar; Joel Favreau added one in October 2010 for a remastered version released in October 2011.

It reached number five in France in 1968 and went gold there in 1976. All words and music are Brassens's.

Track listing

  1. Supplique pour etre enterre a la plage de Sete7:18
  2. Le Fantome3:54
  3. La Fessee4:25
  4. Le Pluriel4:08
  5. Les Quatre Bacheliers5:12
  6. Le Bulletin de sante4:05
  7. La Non-Demande en mariage4:17
  8. Le Grand Chene4:13
  9. Concurrence deloyale3:41
  10. L'Epave3:30
  11. Le Moyenageux4:55

Sources

  1. Supplique pour etre enterre a la plage de Sete (album), Wikipedia (French)
  2. Georges Brassens, Wikipedia (French)