Serge GAINSBOURG Signed Autograph Musical Manuscript In Rereading Your Letter

  
The Autographes des Siècles bookstore has been specializing in the sale of autograph letters and manuscripts for many years. Signed autograph manuscript - Rereading your letter. Three pages in-folio on music paper. Rereading your letter, I realize that spelling is not your strong suit. Musical manuscript titled in a spectacular handwriting, on the first page, Rereading your letter. Lyrics and music by Serge Gainsbourg with eleven lines of musical notes and some handwritten annotations by the artist on the second and third pages. Was deposited at SACEM on January 25, 1961. The song appears on the singer's third album, titled L'Étonnant Serge Gainsbourg, which also includes La Chanson de Prévert.

This title is one of the most famous and cynical songs of young Serge Gainsbourg, a symbol of his early misogynistic lyrics, fierce, offbeat, and dark humor, which introduced a new tone to French music. This jaded seducer who rereads the pathetic letter sent by his conquest on the brink of suicide, coldly pointing out all the spelling mistakes it contains and the unflattering view of women that emerges from the text, did not prevent Barbara from covering it in 1969. Merer collaborated with several other great names in the music scene: Boby Lapointe, Jean Ferrat, Cora Vaucaire, Édith Piaf, Léo Ferré, or Charles Aznavour, sometimes assisting them at the beginning of their careers or during their performances in cabarets and concert halls. The Autographes des Siècles Gallery specializes in the sale and expertise of autograph letters and manuscripts from great personalities of past centuries.

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