| La Valse à mille temps | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Jacques Brel |
| Cover: | American Debut Album.jpg |
| Released: | 1959 |
| Recorded: | 11–17 September 1959 |
| Genre: | Chanson |
| Length: | 30:43 |
| Label: | Philips Barclay/Universal |
| Prev Title: | Au printemps |
| Prev Year: | 1958 |
| Next Title: | Marieke |
| Next Year: | 1961 |
La Valse à mille temps (en|The Waltz With A Thousand Beats) is Jacques Brel's fourth album. Also known as Jacques Brel 4 and American Début, the album was released in 1959 by Philips. The album was reissued on 23 September 2003 under the title La Valse à mille temps as part of the 16-CD box set Boîte à bonbons by Barclay (980 816-6).[1] [2]
The album received the Francis Carco prize from l'Académie du disque français.[3]
The melody of "La Mort" is partly based, uncredited, on the traditional Gregorian chant Dies irae, which has been quoted in a large number of other works over the centuries.
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