Céline Dion en concert explained

Céline Dion en concert
Type:live
Artist:Celine Dion
Cover:Cdec01.jpeg
Recorded:31 May 1985
Venue:Place des Arts
(Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Genre:Pop
Length:48:49
Label:TBS
Producer:Paul Baillargeon
Prev Title:C'est pour toi
Prev Year:1985
Next Title:Les chansons en or
Next Year:1986

Céline Dion en concert (English: "Celine Dion in concert") is the first live album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released in Quebec, Canada on 20 December 1985.[1] It includes mostly French-language hits, but also covers of "Up Where We Belong", "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Feeling".

Content

The album was recorded during sold-out concert at the Place des Arts in Montreal, on 31 May 1985, which was a part of the Céline Dion en concert tour. Dion performed 36 concerts in 25 Quebec cities during that tour. She sang also three English songs: Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes' "Up Where We Belong", Judy Garland's "Over the Rainbow" and Irene Cara's "What a Feeling".[2]

The Canadian 1985 TV special included several different songs than were on the album, such as "Avec toi", "Amoureuse" and "C'est pour toi".

There were no singles issued to promote this album, which also included "Carmen "L'amour est enfant de bohême"" and homages to Félix Leclerc and Michel Legrand.

Harvey Robitaille won Félix Award for Sound Engineer of the Year thanks to Céline Dion en concert tour and the tour was nominated for the Félix Award for Show of the Year.

During her Falling Into You Around the World Tour in 1996-97, as shown in her Live in Memphis home video, Dion recalled in one of her speeches how she used to sing "What a Feeling" when she was a little girl. She did not know English that well at the time, and had to learn some of the lyrics phonetically.

In 2003, Dion recorded one of the songs from Céline Dion en concert, called "Quand on s'aime" as a duet with René Simard, which appeared on his album Hier...encore. Live performance of "Bozo" was included on Céline une seule fois / Live 2013 (2014).

Commercial performance

The album reached number nineteen in Quebec.[3]

Track listing

All tracks produced by Paul Baillargeon.

Charts

Chart (1985)! scope="col"
Peak
position
Quebec Albums (ADISQ)[4] 19

Release history

Release dates and formats for Céline Dion en concert! Region! Date! Label! Format! Catalog
Canada11 December 1985TBSLPTBS 504
CassetteTBS 4504

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Celine Dion en concert. Epic Rights, Inc. 16 July 2016.
  2. Book: Glatzer, Jenna. Céline Dion: For Keeps . registration. Andrews McMeel Publishing. 2005 . 0-7407-5559-5.
  3. Web site: Compilation des ventes d'albums par ordre alphabétique d'interprètes. BAnQ. fr. 12 March 2019.
  4. Web site: Palmarès des ventes d'albums au Québec. BAnQ. fr. 12 March 2019. 9 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180809215510/http://www.banq.qc.ca/collections/collections_patrimoniales/musique/collection_numerique/bd_specialisee/palmares/. dead.