Hux combined Johnny Paycheck's two 1972 albums Someone to Give My Love To and Somebody Loves Me for this 2010 two-fer. Someone to Give My Love To followed Paycheck's commercial breakthrough She's All I Got so, unsurprisingly, producer Billy Sherrill made a natural decision to double-down on smoothness on this sequel, even letting the scales tip toward sunniness on occasion. It's a little odd to hear the haunted auteur of "(Pardon Me) I've Got Someone to Kill" sing the chirpy "Smile, Somebody Loves You," but peerless vocalist that he is, he never hesitates or stumbles, he simply sells the song.
Created by bringing together Étienne Daho, Jean-Louis Piérot and Jane Birkin, Oh Pardon tu dormais is her most intimate album so far. “ Étienne helped me release a past pain, which saved me from melancholy and inertia. We gave each other everything, we took everything from each other and I’m still stunned by how the 3 of us worked together. We are this album’s parents… and this moves me” said Jane Birkin, who speaks for the first time about the death of her daughter Kate, the absence, love anxiety, ghosts from the past…
Mutsumi Hatano and Takashi Tsunoda began performing the lute songs of John Dowland together in 1990, and since then have never failed to enrapture audiences with their unique combination of Mutsumi's clear, expressive voice and the delicacy of Takashi's lute accompaniment, overflowing with emotion. In addition to the Dowland songs and other old English songs, their repertoire spans the renaissance to the baroque, including Italian madrigals, French air de cour and Spanish songs with vihuela accompaniment, and to each a new charm and vitality is introduced.
In 2000, Universal Music released Pardon My English/Plays the Blues, which combined a four-song 1956 EP and the 1957 LP Pardon My English by French jazz vocal group Les Blue Stars, as well as a three-song 1956 session by French jazz guitarist and vocalist Henri Salvador on one compact disc.