Torch singers, can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. Here I trollishly arrange a Thunderdome style cage match between two of the best, Edith Piaf (1915-1963) and Patsy Cline (1932-1963). Both of them died the same year, Piaf of cancer and Cline in an airplane crash. Still, almost 50 years after their deaths, they are remembered even by those who were too young to recall them during their lifetimes.
Ah, but enough of the Howard Cosellesque blather -- on to the match! In one corner, the Francophone Swallow, from 1961 ...
Don't even bother trying to translate it, there's no words in English that will do it justice ... except there may just be one song in English which approximates the meaning. Below the Squiggle of Doom, I present the Virginia Chanteuse, with her immortal 1962 cover of a Willie Nelson song ... :
Well, what say you? You gotta pick. No dodging the issue. Bring it on. Piaf v. Patsy. Which is it?