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Vive la French

04 Mar 08 - 09:20 AM (#2279144)
Subject: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Tunesmith

I love a lot of French popular music and I am critical of the BBC - here in the UK - for almost totally ignoring it. I thought I'd post a few of my favourites from Youtube - and feel free to add some.

Patrick Bruel


04 Mar 08 - 09:26 AM (#2279150)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: John MacKenzie

One of my favourites

George Brassens


Giok


04 Mar 08 - 10:01 AM (#2279174)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Tunesmith

"Giok" I love Georges, and, of course, he was a massive influence on the wonderful Jake Thackery.


04 Mar 08 - 10:46 AM (#2279218)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: John MacKenzie

For those who like me, also loved Jake Thakray

Le Gorille

Giok


04 Mar 08 - 10:52 AM (#2279225)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: bubblyrat

I am very partial to Jean-Jacques Goldman, especially "Je commence demain " and " Elle a fait un bebe toute seule " ( forgive the spelling--j'essaye toujours, mais je ne suis pas sortie de l'auberge !!). Corrections gratefully accepted.


04 Mar 08 - 11:23 AM (#2279250)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: topical tom

Roch Voisine


04 Mar 08 - 12:44 PM (#2279344)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Bubblyrat, the spelling is good, only the accents are missing to "bébé".
Quand la musique est bonne is also a Goldman's good one to dance.


04 Mar 08 - 12:50 PM (#2279349)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Here are two by our Toulouse guys (you'll notice their nice Southern accent!), the second one being a tribute to Louis Armstrong.

Francis Cabrel

Nougaro - Armstrong


04 Mar 08 - 01:02 PM (#2279359)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

There are very few from him Julien Clerc on YouTube.
The songs I linked to (Quand la musique est bonne, A l'encre de tes yeux, Armstrong, Femmes je vous aime) are more or less 25 years old.


04 Mar 08 - 01:08 PM (#2279368)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Now maybe some girls

Barbara who was a great lady.

Véronique Sanson


04 Mar 08 - 01:37 PM (#2279404)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Here's another one Michel Jonaz (he still had some hair at that time)

and another Michel Michel Sardou - Les lacs du Connemara


04 Mar 08 - 01:42 PM (#2279409)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: katlaughing

Very kewl, merci beau coup!

My Rog and I will enjoy these.

katmarriedtoa"LaFrance":-)


04 Mar 08 - 01:54 PM (#2279425)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Let's not forget Johnny Hallyday's son David Hallyday who succeeded to make himself a first name

and here are father and son Hallyday père et fils

Do you guys out there want more?


04 Mar 08 - 03:10 PM (#2279517)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Tunesmith

I think this chap is very interesting.

Philippe LaFontaine


04 Mar 08 - 03:13 PM (#2279520)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Micca

of course from the past the Great Rina Ketty singing her most famous song, as Featured in the movie "Das Boot" about a U boat in the North Atlantic in WWII

Just for you katlauging, enjoy
Micca


04 Mar 08 - 03:39 PM (#2279541)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: John MacKenzie

Some great stuff Monique, mind you I did think that Claude Nougaro was going to burst into 'Go Down Moses' :)
I do like Francis Cabrel, but he's so young, and he looks like he's wearing a false moustache to make him look older :)

Anyway, thanks, I'm enjoying this thread.

Giok


04 Mar 08 - 03:40 PM (#2279543)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: katlaughing

Ah, that's lovely, Micca. Her voice is so sweet. Rather a suggestive end pose there.:-)


04 Mar 08 - 03:48 PM (#2279556)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Philippe Lafontaine is Belgian as was Jacques Brel and as is Julos Beaucarne (couldn't find a YouTube)
I recommend the version qualified as "excellente qualité" of Ne me quitte pas that you'll find when you follow the link and also Regarde bien, petit. There's also a good version of "Les vieux" with Spanish subtitles.


04 Mar 08 - 03:51 PM (#2279557)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Tunesmith

I love this one! Better known(in the US/USA) now as "Beyond the Sea" - Bobby Darin etc.

La Mer - Charles Trenet


04 Mar 08 - 04:23 PM (#2279584)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Tunesmith

I can recall the first time I heard Francis Cabrel. It was in the record shop in Rennes, Brittany in the Summer of 1989.
I love this one - it's so French!


04 Mar 08 - 04:42 PM (#2279597)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

I think that Francis Cabrel was 38 on the "A l'encre de tes yeux" video (he was born in 1953).
Here's another Michel Michel Berger

and still another one Michel Polnareff (this video must be around 40 years old)


04 Mar 08 - 05:12 PM (#2279632)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: gnu

Oh my. I just saw this. What a wonderful "outpouring" and an introduction. The links are excellent!

I must put in a plug for some particular music from La Belle Province. Ouch! (That's a Canuck thing, pay no nevermind) As I am in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada, I know many Acadian musios worthy, but, I don't think of them as "French". I think of Canuck "French" as from Quebec... like Harmonium... one of the most talented and amazing group or artists I have ever heard.

I searched for a couple of particular tunes of theirs which enthralled me some 25 years ago, but I could not locate them. I did find one, which, although not necessarily typical, may give some slight insight to the talent within Harmonium.

There first album, "Harmonium", is a treasure... trust me.


04 Mar 08 - 05:14 PM (#2279633)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: gnu

THEIR first album... sorry for the typo... that's from the lysdexic side of my family.


04 Mar 08 - 05:51 PM (#2279663)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

One more girl Patricia Kaas


04 Mar 08 - 06:48 PM (#2279708)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Seán Báite

Monique, you're being a bit vague with the geography... I love Nougaro, who's definitely a toulousain (may he be singing on the right hand of whoever's up there !) but in the summer I can see Cabrel's house from my in-laws' summer house and it's definitely near Astaffort, 100 kms from Toulouse. He supports Agen in rugby, and not Toulouse, I'm sure (for his sins).
Anyway - can I put up a few that are more of my generation than yours or Cabrel's (I'm 15 or so years younger than him) :

First off, a Breton cousin - Christophe Miossec - man, can this fella write a song :
Miossec - Brest

On to these guys who are most definitely (110%) from Toulouse. I saw them in Dublin in the 90s with approx. 9 other people - here they are doing a wonderful 'joute verbale' in a magnificent setting :
Fabulous Troubadours - Si tu te fais

Then across the south of France to Marseille, to the equally wonderful Massilia Sound System, encouraging us in the local lingo to talk the local lingo (Occitan/Provencal) :
Massilia Sound System - Parla Patois

Back to Toulouse again for Zebda's famous 'replique' to Chirac's extremely indelicate comment on immigrants (they give gainful employment to an Irish fiddler, these boys) :
Zebda - Le Bruit et l'odeur

Further south into French Catalonia - that gave us Bruno Cali (who loves Ireland and has worked with ex-Waterboy Steve Wickham). Here he is wasting his talents on tourists in the cablecar that goes up to the Sacre Couer in Montmartre. I don't think a finer song has ever been written in appreciation of the female posterior :
Cali - La fin du monde

Up a bit to Paris, and Renaud who has put well-meaning but rather simplistic (regarding his analysis of the Troubles) French lyrics to the wonderful Scottish (?) melody 'The Water is Wide' :
Renaud - La ballade nord-irlandaise

More Breton cousins, this time with a French transposition of a song you should all recognise :
Tri Yann - La ville que j'ai tant aimée

And finally, the Fleming Arno, doing a cover of a song by the great French poet Leo Ferré. Unfortunately, it's one of those mobile phone captures - but I think he gets the message across all the same :
Arno - Comme à Ostende

Sorry for being so longwinded - but they're well able to write a song - those damn French (and Catalans, and Basques, and Bretons, and Marseille heads, and Corsicans.... )


04 Mar 08 - 07:50 PM (#2279752)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: katlaughing

Sean! Thanks. I can hardly wait for Rog to get home. He will love these, even if he is of French Canadian stock...we both love French and "Canuck." Thanks, too, to gnu!


04 Mar 08 - 08:05 PM (#2279764)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: katlaughing

OH, that last one, esp. LOVE his voice AND delivery!


04 Mar 08 - 08:07 PM (#2279768)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST

Sure I'm being vague with the geography Seán, but people would more easily figure out which large area he comes from if I say Toulouse. I'm glad you added some younger ones (I'm indeed 2 years older than Cabrel) and Massilia and Fabulous Troubadours. Those Coriandre are an Occitan trad. group.

Here's another one Florent Pagny


04 Mar 08 - 08:09 PM (#2279770)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

the previous post is mine


05 Mar 08 - 03:27 AM (#2279929)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Florent Pagny is a another French pop singer, not another Occitan group.

Here are a former group Téléphone and his now solo singer Jean-Louis Aubert (same sound)


05 Mar 08 - 05:15 AM (#2279958)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Tunesmith

In less than a day, this thread has introduced me to more French singers/musicians than the BBC has in the past 50 years!

Sean Baite: In your posting you said of Bruno Cali's song La Fin du Monde:                                                                         "I don't think a finer song has ever been written in appreciation of the female posterior"

Now, has this subject matter been the theme of other French songs and, if so, can you give details.


05 Mar 08 - 05:23 AM (#2279964)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Georgiansilver

Yes I know I started a thread about Francoise Hardy and it has now disappeared...but I love so much of her stuff..I just had to add another of her songs.
Saurai-Je..Francoise Hardy
Best wishes, Mike.


05 Mar 08 - 05:28 AM (#2279968)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Seán Báite

Recognised you no problems, Monique - are you in or around Toulouse ? For geography, I'm in Agen - where a guy at the market made me ask for saucisse d'Agen once instead of saucisse de Toulouse - they're just a little bit 'chauvin' sometimes...
Love the Polnareff one - especially as he was taking in a lot of English influences at that time. My kids heard it on the TV the other day and went - 'what the hell is that ?' - more generation gap trouble coming up :-<
Gnu and Katlaughing, if it's stuff from that lovely place across the Ocean from Ireland you're after here's a couple more :

Richard Desjardins - great voice/great writer/great song - sorry the vid and the sentiment is a bit anti-American :
Richard Desjardins - Les Yankees

Some kind soul has put up a whole TV concert of the great Felix Leclerc :
Felix Leclerc - Whole Concert

A nice a capella delivery by Acadian singer, Pierre Robichaud, outlining the perks of working as a gardener in a convent :
Pierre Robichaud - Le jardinier du couvent

The same fella with one that's a bit commercial and reggae-ised - but the landscape's lovely (looks a lot like the west of Ireland/Scotland - apart from when they've blued up the sky with Photoshop :->)
Pierre Robichaud - Aux iles de la Madeleine

Enjoy - and ain't the internet great ? The BBC is grand enough - but stuff in French only comes along sporadically - with the web, we're pure spoilt...


05 Mar 08 - 05:34 AM (#2279971)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Georgiansilver

Okay so does anyone remember Sylvie Vartan? More to some peoples taste than Francoise but hey......
Sylvie Vartan.....WOW
Best wishes, Mike.


05 Mar 08 - 05:54 AM (#2279975)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Seán Báite

Mike - douze points to Hardy any day - beautiful woman and singer - a lot less to Vartan. She's an ex-wife of Hallyday - and is actually Bulgarian originally, believe it or not ! To find your thread on Hardy again - change the filter at the top of the page to '3 days or a week' and refresh - it's still there.

Tunesmith, as to the female posterior in French music - I'm sure there are many instances as they're generally a lot more comfortable with their bodies than us in the English-speaking world (one of their great qualities). I can't immediately think of too many. I remember Brel's 'Madame promene son cul sur les remparts de Varsovie...' but it's hardly very appreciative of the said posterior.

Brassens, I'm sure has written a good few fairly 'carnal' songs - that Giok fella should know a few. Then, of course, there's Gainsbourg - 'Initiales BB' being his famous tribute to Bardot. He admires most parts of her in it - not sure if he mentions her derrière - he even got her to sing it, the sod !

Look closely at the video by Cali, there's a poor wee auld lady that's starts getting a bit flustered when she hears the words of the song - priceless ! So bang goes my gross generalisation about the whole French nation being comfortable about their bodies...


05 Mar 08 - 06:04 AM (#2279980)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Mooh

Interesting, and thanks. My French connection didn't go past Pierre Bensusan until now.

Peace, Mooh.


05 Mar 08 - 06:20 AM (#2279989)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Tunesmith, there's a Georges Brassens's song called "Vénus callipyge" that talks about it and another one called "Le blason" about the "front side" which is a very beautiful tribute to the women's most intimate parts. Lyrics on Paroles.net, no English translation available as far as I could check.

Seán, I'm in Montpellier. If you're in Agen, then you're not that far from Castelsarrasin, birth place to Pierre Perret who wrote this Lili beautiful song against racism. And you'll also want to listen to "Mon p'tit loup" one addressed to a girl who's been raped.

We haven't much heard of Polnareff during quite a lot of time. Here's a nice old one Sous quelle étoile suis-je né? Bercy and you'll find "Love me please love me" there too.

The Fabulous Troubadours' "Si tu te fais" has a pretty collection of words that every student of French would like to know and they'd dash to check The Alternative Dictionary (Dirty words from around the world in a BIG lot of languages)


05 Mar 08 - 06:30 AM (#2279994)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Mike, here is one about Sylvie Vartan's Bulgarian background La Maritza and a tribute to her late father Mon père.


05 Mar 08 - 06:36 AM (#2279997)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST

Those two Serge Gainsbourg et Jane Birkin were missing. You'll easily find out what it's about!


05 Mar 08 - 06:36 AM (#2279999)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Seán Báite

Yes Monique, have heard a bit of Perret - always amused that he bears exactly the same name as the lead songwriter of the Only Ones -a great English band from a little before Téléphone (Another Girl, Another Planet). My wife taught in Castelsarrasin for a year.
I couldn't watch a clip from Bercy, I'd feel like the taxmen'd track me down :-> Even if it's Polnareff.
I noticed the 'rich' vocabulary used by the 2 troubadours - they should put on a performance for that old lady in the cable car, I think - or maybe not, if she's a bit cardiac.
As a native of Joyce's hometown - never had any problem with those sort of words - revelled in them actually - now the practical side was another matter :->


05 Mar 08 - 07:01 AM (#2280016)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Georgiansilver

Thanks Monique. This thread is sure bringing back some memories but Francoise H will always be top of my list.


05 Mar 08 - 07:08 AM (#2280020)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Here she is Tant de belles choses. I agree that she's good and beautiful!

The Gainsbourg-Birking post was mine too.


05 Mar 08 - 08:36 AM (#2280074)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Georgiansilver

At 62 she is still so beautiful! Someone said 60 is the new 40..... looking at Francoise..that must be true eh?


05 Mar 08 - 08:51 AM (#2280087)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST

I love La Chevanee, Le Gop!, Mes Souliers Sont Rouge, Malicorne of course and early Stivell.

I have just got into Portuguese Fado too.

Elfcall


05 Mar 08 - 02:34 PM (#2280430)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Here is another old one (both video and singer) Jean Ferrat. The song is one of Louis Aragon's poems.

And still another one William Sheller ... not so old!


05 Mar 08 - 02:48 PM (#2280445)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

One more Laurent Voulzy and one more still Alain Souchon.


05 Mar 08 - 03:25 PM (#2280475)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

A younger one Calogero. The guy at the drums is one of my colleague's husband and I'm afraid it's mostly why I know about them.

And Maxime Leforestier's San Francisco. All the people born in the 50's sang this one around a fire on the beach in Summer when we were young and slim. We used to sing "Education sentimentale" too if someone had a guitar around and "Parachutiste" if we were in an antimilitary May '68 mood.


05 Mar 08 - 03:28 PM (#2280483)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: katlaughing

Those last four are wonderful, Monique!


05 Mar 08 - 04:53 PM (#2280565)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Tunesmith

Sometime in the early 1990s, I was buying some perfume in a shop down Rue de la Huchette(a busy little street on the Left Bank)when this great track came on over the sound system. It turned out to be Maxime Le Forestier. Great stuff.


05 Mar 08 - 04:58 PM (#2280569)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Tunesmith

I couple of legends here! Francis Cabrel and that great Cajun musician, Zachary Richard. Check Zachary out, he's terrific.

Francis Cabrel and Zachary Richard.


05 Mar 08 - 05:19 PM (#2280587)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

I couldn't find a better one from Francis Lalanne at least one where he can be seen.

And here is another Michel Michel Fugain. A tribute to our cousins from the other side of the Atlantic.


05 Mar 08 - 05:45 PM (#2280608)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Georgiansilver

What a great thread. C'est bien.


05 Mar 08 - 05:51 PM (#2280614)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Some of Seán's cousins: Soïg Sibéril and Gwenaël Kerléo


05 Mar 08 - 06:09 PM (#2280634)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Seán Báite

Monique, the former plays guitar far better than me and the latter has a far more ethereal voice. And they're both better looking, esp. the latter - can't say there's an 'air de famille' :->


05 Mar 08 - 06:33 PM (#2280671)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Here is a site where you can hear some samples of (mainly) traditional songs in about 25 languages of France.
And after Seán's cousins, one of mine Joan-Francés Tisnèr


05 Mar 08 - 06:42 PM (#2280684)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Seán Báite

Ah, du bearnais, pas mal - and he's friends with Sinéad O'Connor according to his Myspace.... Back to Brittany for one of their rebel songs written and interpreted by the great singer/guitarist - Gilles Servat (the video's just a Powerpoint slideshow, apologies...) :
Gilles Servat - La blanche hermine


05 Mar 08 - 07:21 PM (#2280706)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: CET

Soldat Louis:

I heard these guys on a French TV variety show when I was posted in Germany 20 years ago. I still love their music.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WVUhNxC-skE

(The blue clicky instructions don't work for me)

Great videos, Monique. I hope you join Mudcat as a regular member. We could do with more expertise in French music.

Edmund


06 Mar 08 - 03:57 AM (#2280946)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Seán Báite

Edmund, here's the blue clicky for Soldat Louis - lads with a bit of a thirst on them, as I recall :
Soldat Louis


06 Mar 08 - 04:45 AM (#2280963)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Colin Randall

One more for the pot....Michel Sardou's Les Lacs de Connemara. It's a bit naive but a great tune......not sure what the clip is like since I cannot get sound on the desktop I am using.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l11GyqVu_-o

I think I linked from the Francoise Hardy thread to a good YouTube clip I used at my own site of Tous les Garcons (the song she loathed, though I loved it)


06 Mar 08 - 07:34 AM (#2281054)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Tunesmith

I like Soig Siberil's playing, but the guitar sound on a cd I have is dreadful. Why guitarists own beautiful acoustic instruments, and then record them "plugged-in", is beyond me! Soig often plays in dadgad tuning, and I can highly recommend his guitar books.


06 Mar 08 - 04:22 PM (#2281523)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Tunesmith

I like this one; indeed, I think it's the strongest song recorded by Yves.

Yves Duteil "Les Enfants du Monde Entier"


06 Mar 08 - 04:33 PM (#2281529)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Two more girls: one of the new ones Chimène Badi and one of the old ones France Gall (well she's not that old but she's been around for more than 40 years!)

Edmund, I'm no expert. Can maybe play "Au clair de la lune" on a recorder and I'm just old enough to know a thing or two, I've been living here all my life after all. As the Spanish saying goes "El diablo sabe más por viejo que por diablo" (the devil knows more for being old than for being the devil)


06 Mar 08 - 06:08 PM (#2281616)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Let's not forget Claude François who died 30 years ago. Btw, I noticed that SOME singers above passed away. "On est bien peu de chose..." as Françoise Hardy would say!

Here is quite something else Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine


06 Mar 08 - 06:20 PM (#2281637)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Another guy Bernard Lavilliers

and another one Jacques Higelin


06 Mar 08 - 06:33 PM (#2281646)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Another guy Charlélie Couture

and another group Les Rita Mitsouko: one more guy who died some months ago.


07 Mar 08 - 02:29 AM (#2281835)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Here Coop Breizh is THE Breton shop/store where you can find Soïg Sibéril, Gwenaël Kerléo, Soldat Louis, traditional songs from Brittany, kan ha diskan, shanties, books (Soïg Sibéril scores)and other valuable stuff. You can hear some samples or buy some titles online.


07 Mar 08 - 04:59 AM (#2281900)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Here's another old one (dead too!) Gilbert Bécaud : East and West


07 Mar 08 - 05:18 AM (#2281912)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

Another old one (old but still alive!) Charles Aznavour and another one (dead!) Léo Ferré.

I'm aware that I posted a lot of videos from people born in the 20's or even before and that most of them have passed away but if most of you need to make up for the last 60 years, I thought it'd be a good thing for you to know of those.


07 Mar 08 - 06:33 AM (#2281943)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Colin Randall

This thread has turned into a feast for Francophiles. Thanks to Monique and others for alerting me to a lot of links I probably wouldn't otherwise have sought out.

Johnny Hallyday may not have a huge following outside the French speaking world, but one of his biggest fans - despite his animated support for Sarko - is the decidedly Left-wing singer/songwriter Robb Johnson.

I was guilty of wandering off-piste when I mentiond it in the recent Francoise Hardy thread but perhaps inow is the right time to mention various Johnny clips you'll find in a series of pieces Robb wrote about his implausible hero worship at Salut! Live.

His articles start
here and there's a link to each subsequent instalment. And I think he's beginning to worry about the Sarko connection.

Thanks, incidentally, to those Mudcat folk who commented favourably on my old interview with Francoise. The YouTube version of Tous les Garcons that I referred to a few messages ago is at
http://www.francesalut.com/2007/07/francoise-hardy.html


07 Mar 08 - 07:40 AM (#2281973)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique

About "notre Johnny national" here he is with an old friend of his Eddy Mitchell

Here's a girl Catherine Lara


09 Mar 08 - 03:53 PM (#2283819)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Monique

Guys, Juliette Gréco has this message for you!

Quite another style Mylène Farmer

One of the "new" ones Liane Foly. The song is one of Daniel Balavoine's. He was killed in an accident during the Paris-Dakar in Jan. 1986. L'Aziza is one of his last songs.

Could some people out there post about singers I have forgotten or wouldn't know? Thanks!


05 Nov 11 - 03:26 PM (#3250942)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Georgiansilver

My effort at a Francoise Hardy song.


05 Nov 11 - 03:39 PM (#3250952)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Monique

Good job Mike!


05 Nov 11 - 04:41 PM (#3250979)
Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Georgiansilver

Merci Beaucoup Monique! X