Vive la French

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 05:19 PM

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.

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 05:45 PM

What a great thread. C'est bien.

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 05:51 PM

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

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Seán Báite
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 06:09 PM

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' :->

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 06:33 PM

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

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Seán Báite
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 06:42 PM

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

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: CET
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 07:21 PM

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

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Seán Báite
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 03:57 AM

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

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Colin Randall
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 04:45 AM

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)

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 07:34 AM

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.

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 04:22 PM

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

Yves Duteil "Les Enfants du Monde Entier"

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 04:33 PM

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)

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 06:08 PM

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

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 06:20 PM

Another guy Bernard Lavilliers

and another one Jacques Higelin

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 06:33 PM

Another guy Charlélie Couture

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

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 02:29 AM

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.

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 04:59 AM

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

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 05:18 AM

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.

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Colin Randall
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 06:33 AM

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

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: GUEST,Monique
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 07:40 AM

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

Here's a girl Catherine Lara

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Monique
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 03:53 PM

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!

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 03:26 PM

My effort at a Francoise Hardy song.

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Monique
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 03:39 PM

Good job Mike!

Subject: RE: Vive la French
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 04:41 PM

Merci Beaucoup Monique! X