Card of the Day - 2024-01-24

Panini
Anonymous / Monty [trade : gum : O/S : Netherlands] "Hit Parade Stickers" (1973) Un/100

Tonight we have the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, who was the link between pop and rhythm and blues. He won two Grammy Awards, and is quoted as being the inspiration of many of today`s most famous stars. 

So how do we know this is Monty Gum? After all there is not a word about them anywhere, and even if you squint on the really lightly printed reverse of the item all it says is "Fasprint", which is the trading name of a Scottish printers who specialised in making stickers. 

The only reason we know the name of the set is that it is on the packets - which you can see at TradingCardDatabase/HPSPackaging. As for what the words on the right of that packet, as viewed, mean, well "Vedettes" means "stars", so it is "Stars of Pop and Song". However the French word "chanson" is actually from Latin, where deriving from "canzone" whch means a sung ballad. Now that is the key, because a ballad is a narrative, sometimes in verse, set to music - and the one thing that all these songs have in common is that they had words, they were not just instrumentals, and not just simply hummed