Here's a corker of a song by France Gall giving it the full yé-yé treatment -
"Laisse tomber les filles" (English: "Leave the girls alone")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVA670WKAQc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVA670WKAQc
(Recently April March covered the same song as "Chick Habit".)
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote:
Re "Plus, the music industry mechanism really wasn't in place to allow for
mass distribution of non-US acts at that time.": Good point.
Re "rock sounds *terrible* in French.":
Yes, Johnny Hallyday certainly *looked* the part - but I can't recall a single
song of his!
The French did have some modest (home) success with those yé-yé girls like
France Gall.
You must know the story of how Serge Gainsbourg cruelly set up France Gall
with his composition "Les Sucettes" ("Lollipops") with its (to us) blatant
sexual innuendo. On the surface, the lyrics tell the innocent tale of a girl
named Annie who enjoys lollipops. This is the stage show Gainsbourg also
arranged. It shows what an innocent age it was that the 18-year-old Gall could
perform on this set and still not realise she'd been well and truly pranked. A
friend had to explain it to her later and Gall was mortified. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-iysdFu_TQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-iysdFu_TQ
