"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.