Je cherche apres Titine

[Durium]

Je cherche apres Titine

I guess some of you will recognize this feelings ............... you're listening to a record or CD and suddenly you recognize a tune, but you can't remember where or when. I had that experience with the second track on the CD Quand refleuriront les lias blancs? by Henri Crolla.

Henri Crolla? Who's that? It's a French guitar player, who, like Oscar Aleman in the 1930s, didn't got the recognition he deserved, due to the fact that another French guitar player, I can't remember his name now, got all attention.

This second track ..... Je cherche apres Titine ....... I was sure I had heard it not so long ago. Suddenly, the penny dropped............. I had heard it, although with other words, in a well known film classic.........................

Je cherche apres Titine

Keep swinging

Durium

[brownie]

'Je Cherche Après Titine' was composed in 1917 as Durium's website indicates.

It was popularized by French soldiers in WWI trenches. It was even more popular - probably because it is easier to sing - than 'La Madelon'.

Titine was an abbreviation of Clementine