# 7 Chacun fait (c'qui lui plaît) Chagrin d’amour (1981)
The first ever french rap 45 was a smash hit (in France). Initially a regular song (as a demo), the songwriter heard The Magnificent Seven by the Clash and then chose to make it a rap song.
(the lyrics are simply the narrative of an agitated night out)
Just for the video..
This is from the movie “Le gendarme de St Tropez” (The Troops of St. Tropez), a 1964 comedy with Louis de Funès. In this film, de Funès plays Cruchot, a highly uptight gendarme from a small French village, who has been reassigned to the seaside commune of Saint-Tropez under the orders of sergeant major Gerber (played by Michel Galabru). Her lovely daughter Nicole quickly adapts to the life in the city and begin to mix with the local youths. Here, we find her in a bar dancing and singing the now famous song (also called “Douliou douliou St Tropez”) in such a charming 60’s way (I think) and more natural than Brigitte Bardot.
For his fourth album, Manset digged out a song made two years earlier with a new and slightly out of tune piano. He tried to re-record it but failed to match the intensity. He then decided to keep the original version but to add a few orchestrations and backing vocals.
I like the low-key production, not too much “french chanson” of this song which nonetheless became a french classic.
He is travelling alone
And nothing keeps him quiet
He is singing the earth
He is singing the earth
And it's a life without mystery
That needs no commentary
For days on end
He is singing the earth
But he is alone
One day
Love
Left him, went away
To take a tour
Of the other side
Of a city where there are no places to park
He is traveling alone
And nothing keeps him quiet
He knows what he has to do
He is singing the earth
He's the only volunteer
And since he has nothing more to do
Stronger than an entire army
He is singing the earth
But he is alone
One day
Love
Left him, went away
To take a tour
Of the other side
Of a city where there are no places to park
And there it is in sum, the miracle
It's when his song is good
Because it's for the joy it gives him
That he is singing the earth
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In the same year of the previous entry Il voyage en solitaire, this is its romantic-love, sugary counterpart, with in common a certain pastoral, typical 70’s atmosphere which, along with the golden voice of the singer and the hi-fi production, just save this song from desuetude.
Just for the video..
This is from the movie “Le gendarme de St Tropez” (The Troops of St. Tropez), a 1964 comedy with Louis de Funès. In this film, de Funès plays Cruchot, a highly uptight gendarme from a small French village, who has been reassigned to the seaside commune of Saint-Tropez under the orders of sergeant major Gerber (played by Michel Galabru). Her lovely daughter Nicole quickly adapts to the life in the city and begin to mix with the local youths. Here, we find her in a bar dancing and singing the now famous song (also called “Douliou douliou St Tropez”) in such a charming 60’s way (I think) and more natural than Brigitte Bardot.
Do you, do you St Tropez (1964) Genneviève Grad
Just for the video..
This is from the movie “Le gendarme de St Tropez” (The Troops of St. Tropez), a 1964 comedy with Louis de Funès. In this film, de Funès plays Cruchot, a highly uptight gendarme from a small French village, who has been reassigned to the seaside commune of Saint-Tropez under the orders of sergeant major Gerber (played by Michel Galabru). Her lovely daughter Nicole quickly adapts to the life in the city and begin to mix with the local youths. Here, we find her in a bar dancing and singing the now famous song (also called “Douliou douliou St Tropez”) in such a charming 60’s way (I think) and more natural than Brigitte Bardot.
This 1977 N°1 hit single in France is 11 min 45 long!
It’s a nostalgic and joyful recollection of a french teenager’s life in the 60’s and among other things, the british and american records he listens to, whose extracts are recreated (not sampled) in the song.
Song extracts :
The Loco-Motion : Little Eva
A Hard Day's Night : The Beatles
I Get Around : The Beach Boys
Gloria : Them
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction : The Rolling Stones
Mr. Tambourine Man : Bob Dylan
Massachusetts : Bee Gees
Mellow Yellow : Donovan
California Dreamin' : The Mamas & the Papas
Get Back : The Beatles
#12 Je t'aime...moi non plus (1969) Jane Birkin et Serge Gainsbourg
The song was initially written for Brigitte Bardot (with whom he had a brief romance). A first version was recorded with her in late 1967. But the single was withdrawn after a single radio broadcast due to her husband complaint. The next year he recorded the version we all know with Jane Birkin (his partner for the following 12 years), and the record was released in February 1969.
Originally, Brigitte Bardot asked him to write the most beautiful love song he could imagine: the result is rather a tongue-in-cheek evocation, as well as a disillusion, of sex without love, as the character who is responding “neither do I” to the “I love you” reckons that “physical love is a dead end”. Not so hedonistic after all ? But then again the character perhaps is just talking nonsense to keep his cool...
This 1977 N°1 hit single in France is 11 min 45 long!
It’s a nostalgic and joyful recollection of a french teenager’s life in the 60’s and among other things, the british and american records he listens to, whose extracts are recreated (not sampled) in the song.
Song extracts :
The Loco-Motion : Little Eva
A Hard Day's Night : The Beatles
I Get Around : The Beach Boys
Gloria : Them
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction : The Rolling Stones
Mr. Tambourine Man : Bob Dylan
Massachusetts : Bee Gees
Mellow Yellow : Donovan
California Dreamin' : The Mamas & the Papas
Get Back : The Beatles
This is like a song that was a hit on the radio when I was a kid called Stars On 45. It was the same idea as this. A bunch of oldies with a kind of dance beat. And it wasn't samples but re-creations. Then I remember that they expanded it into a whole album called Stars On LP, or something like that.
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