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We are en route by car to Paris from Giverny when our French driver/guide Patrick plays the songs of Edith Piaf, legendary chanteuse of France, from her latest album, Eternelle.

"My favorite song is Je ne regrette rien," says Patrick, "which means I regret nothing."

I nod my head in comprehension. My favorite is La Vie en Rose, or The Life in Pink.

"The good and the bad, I regret nothing," continues Patrick. "That's what Edith Piaf said at the end of her life."

Patrick is referring to the latest movie, La Mome (or La Vie en Rose to the English-speaking world), which is based on the life of Edith Piaf that is showing in Paris on this merry month of May. Though he isn't keen at first, in the end, Patrick is deeply moved and teary-eyed. I should watch the movie, he says, and buy the album.

I glance back at my three companions. Joan, Aida and Rachel are sleeping like a baby! I guess the long drive, fatigue, and Edith Piaf's powerful voice must have lulled them to sleep. There goes the movie, I thought. At least, I could still buy the album in Paris, composed of two CDs at a special price of almost 10 euros.

I am to discover that Edith Piaf's music is known as chanson francaise or popular French music that emerged at the end of the 19th century and in her case, in the late 30s, 40s, and 50s. It's the kind of music where the lyrics are more important that the melody, with a sentimental hymn that could reflect a social commentary or a personal experience. Did you know that the classic 1952 song, If you love me (really love me) is based on a French song, Hymne a l'amour which had been popularized by Edith Piaf?

I'm glad that I took Patrick's advice, as well as the advice of the assistant at the Laffayette store. Edith Piaf's protégée, actor/singer Yves Montand is very popular in France, he says, and his male version of the song, Autumn Leaves is tres bien. Montand first sang the French song Les Feuilles Mortes in a 1946 French movie and the song became the basis of the 1949 English version Autumn Leaves and the theme song of the 1956 American movie, Autumn Leaves starring Joan Crawford.

Did you also know that the popular song, Beyond the Sea is based on the 1946 French song, La Mer by pre-World War II singer Charles Trenet? Trenet also composed the classic 1942 French song Que reste-t-il de nos amours? or more popularly known in its English version, I Wish you love. Even the famous 1969 song, My Way, lyrics by Paul Anka and sung by Frank Sinatra had its origins in the 1967 French song Comme d'habitude by Claude Francois and Jacques Revaux.

After our trip to France, a friend lends me two music CDs: Accordion de Paris by the Streets of Paris Orchestra and Paris Midnight Album by Liane & Boheme Bar Trio. Both albums feature French popular songs from the era of the 1950s and 60s and listening to them, I feel transported to a café in Boheme Paris.

"Why does music sung in French (or Spanish & Italian) sound more romantic than its English version?" I wonder aloud one day.

"That's because you cannot separate language from culture," says Ms. Edith Buñag, my former high school teacher. "Music is a reflection of the historical experiences of a people."

It is a fascinating explanation, and I think Ms. B (as we call her), is truly wise in her observation. For many centuries, poetry and song were closely related in France and song is an important part of French literature. Many poems were made into songs. I discover that one of my favorite songs, Claire de Lune (Moonlight) is actually Claude Debussy's depiction of the poem by Paul Verlaine (1905). There is much we can learn from chanson francaise and a little background of French is a good way to start. Bonjour!

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The Beginning Of The Age Of The Fender Stratocaster

Perhaps one of the most famous and best known names in the world of electric guitars is that of Fender, and it was in 1946 that Clarence Leonidas Fender, usually referred to simply as Leo Fender, created the design for the first electric guitar to have a solid body, and a pickup that worked through the use of a single magnet. Originally a radio repairman who also created amplifiers for instruments, Fender's design was originally named the Esquire, and was a significant step away from the guitars of the time, as they were still hollow body designs, and generally used more for jazz. Fender's Esquire was immediately popular with the country and western performers, especially in California.

Originally using just a single magnetic pickup, Fender later developed a two pickup version which was originally named the Broadcaster, but when it was later discovered that a drum set manufactured by Gretsch had a name which was very similar (Broadkaster) Fender decided to change the name of his two pickup electric guitar and so the Telecaster was born. As the names of these instruments suggests, this was during the dawn of television, when the western world was waking up to a new phenomenon.

Leo Fender's Telecaster was essentially a solid body guitar made from ash, with a maple neck. The neck of the telecaster was available as either a 21 or a 22 fret version, and this was attached to the ash body using four bolts, with extra strength gained through the use of a steel neck plate. The pickups were two single coils, positioned at both the bridge and the neck of the guitar, and the Telecaster came with two adjustments for both volume and tone. Additionally, the performer could select which pickup or combination to use through the inclusion of a switch. A jack fitted onto the body of the guitar for direct output to the amplifier added to the amount of cabling and wiring embedded in the guitar, and a black pickguard, manufactured from Bakelite, was included to hide the wiring and cables from view.

Although it is sometimes believed that manufacturing a guitar with a solid body in a single piece of wood, including the neck, Leo Fender did not pursue this idea, and the Telecaster had a bolt on neck for a very good reason. It was Fender's belief that creating a guitar in this modular fashion allowed for improved consistency in manufacturing techniques, as well as providing a much easier way of mending or repairing the guitar later in its life. It is partly for this reason that today it is possible to find a very rare example of what is dubbed a 'nocaster'. This is because the creation of these modular guitars was occurring at the same time as the clash of names between the Broadcaster and Broadkaster brands. The modular parts of the guitar were made, and the Fender logo attached, but no model name - as this was in dispute. The very early examples still have Broadcaster stamped on them, and of course later models had telecaster, but a few very rare examples were caught in between, and have no model on them - and these now fetch a very high price if you can find one!

It was seven years after Fender first created his Esquire model that he developed the Stratocaster, which offered a wide range of improvements and technical advancements over the Telecaster. The body design was created from either ash or alder, with the wood very well dried beforehand, and the body shape was a double cutaway creating a very distinctive visual style, as well as providing very comfortable body contours for holding the guitar. An integrated mechanism was created to provide a vibrato effect, named a synchronized tremolo by Fender - a misnomer that has caused no end of confusion ever since, since tremolo and vibrato are quite different - one being volume, the other a rapid pitch change; unfortunately Fender chose the wrong name, but it has stuck ever since! The Stratocaster also included three single coil pickups.

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Where can I find new, or NOS (New Old Stock) body parts for my 1992 Dodge D250 truck?

I've tried the usual suspects, LMC truck, etc. but they don't go back past 1994, where can I get rocker panels,fenders, and so on from for my 1992 Dodge D250 Cummins Turbo Diesel pickup?

If you're looking for NOS parts, I'd check with Dodge dealers first, I doubt anyone has bought up all the fenders, rockers, etc. for '92 model trucks, the truck is only 18 years old.

If you're looking for replacement panels to fix your '92 model, try http://www.shermanparts.com/ or http://autobodyspecialt.com/, even JC Whitney sells panels, but I know nothing of the quality.

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