In The 50's - The Birth Of Genius

brel's first two lps on one cd plus 3 bonus tracks. brel's debut lp 'jacques brel et ses chansons', crept on to shop shelves sometime in 1954 and 'quand on n'a que l'amour' (tracks 13-22 ) followed in 1957. described, in this early part of his career, as a catholic humanist troubadour, these early songs are the initial building blocks upon which, over the next decade, he would become possibly the best-known and most-loved (worldwide) of all chansonniers. a man equally adept at jaunty, jolly ditties or solemn laments.