No Promises (album)

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No Promises
No Promises cover
Studio album by Carla Bruni
Released 2007-01-15
Recorded 2006
Genre Folk
Language English
Label Naïve
Professional reviews
Carla Bruni chronology
Quelqu'un m'a dit
(2003)
No Promises
(2007)

No Promises is the second album by the Italian-French singer and model Carla Bruni. It was released in January 2007. Bruni's début album, Quelqu'un m'a dit, was sung in French; this album, however, is sung in English.

All tracks on the album are adapted by Bruni from poems by deceased authors.

[edit] Track listing

# Title Lyrics Music
1. "Those Dancing Days Are Gone" W. B. Yeats Bruni
2. "Before the World Was Made" W. B. Yeats Bruni
3. "Lady Weeping at the Crossroads" W. H. Auden Bruni
4. "I Felt My Life With Both My Hands" Emily Dickinson Bruni
5. "Promises Like Piecrust" Christina Rossetti Bruni
6. "Autumn" Walter de la Mare Bruni
7. "If You Were Coming in the Fall" Emily Dickinson Bruni
8. "I Went to Heaven" Emily Dickinson Bruni
9. "Afternoon" Dorothy Parker Bruni
10. "Ballad at Thirty Five" Dorothy Parker Bruni
11. "At Last the Secret Is Out" W. H. Auden Bruni
12. "Those Dancing Days Are Gone (alternate version)"* W. B. Yeats Bruni

* Featuring Lou Reed. Only available on iTunes and through Opendisc.

[edit] Charts

Chart Peak
Austria Album Chart 11[1]
Belgium Album Chart 2[2]
France Album Chart 1[3]
Germany Album Chart 2[4]
Irish Albums Chart 72[5]
Italian Album Chart 11[6]
Portugal Album Chart 6[7]
Sweden Album Chart 55[8]
Swiss Album Chart 1[9]
UK Album Chart 65[10]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Carla Bruni - No Promises - Music Charts
  2. ^ Carla Bruni - No Promises - Music Charts
  3. ^ Carla Bruni - No Promises - Music Charts
  4. ^ Carla Bruni - No Promises - Music Charts
  5. ^ Chart Track
  6. ^ Hit Parade Italia - ALBUM 2007
  7. ^ Carla Bruni - No Promises - Music Charts
  8. ^ Carla Bruni - No Promises - Music Charts
  9. ^ Carla Bruni - No Promises - Music Charts
  10. ^ Carla Bruni - No Promises - Music Charts
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