In the '60s, she recorded everything from Israeli folk songs to spirituals to covers of Ellington and Jacques Brel.
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They know and love the traditional chansons by Piaf and Brel.
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There are also neatly packaged efforts, like "Jacques Brel Returns, " the four-man show highlighting the music of the Belgian singer-songwriter, at the Triad on the Upper West Side.