"Tout va très bien Madame la Marquise", "Ca vaut mieux que d'attraper la scarlatine", "Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux?"- all music-hall classics from the pen of Ray Ventura, one of the most prolific bandleaders and composers of the interwar years and the 1950s and 60s. A promoter of jazz in France alongside his lifelong friend Paul Misraki, Ventura was also a fine-nosed publisher who was able to launch Georges Brassens, Henri Salvador and his own nephew, Sacha Distel.
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