#Yé-Yé

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1956

While searching for Halloween songs yesterday, this rocking cover of Ray Charles' classic came my way for some reason! I have seen numerous Viva Las Vegas animated gifs on @thetaoofzoe but haven't seen the film yet!

French singer Sylvie Vartan also covered it in

1962

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Stella - Le Silence (1967)

A mere sixteen years old when she recorded this "anti-yé-yé" tune, it has a gimmick that probably drove djs out of their mind. Fun stuff

C'est bon mais c'est meilleur quand ça s'arrête

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françoise hardy song recs

grand hôtel

soir de gala

le premier bonheur du jour

puisque vous partez en voyage

brouillard dans la rue corvisart

i’ll be seeing you

piano-bar

chanson sur toi et nous

lmk if you want my françoise playlist <3

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Tracklist:

Il est parti comme il était venu • J’avais Rêvé • Ne Cherche Pas • Puisque tu es revenu • Petit Garçon • Tu Fais Partie Du Passé • Ce Samedi Soir (Young Girl Blues) • Demain • Mes Convenances • Fuir • L’héroïne • Tu Viens Tu Vas • Sauve-moi • Tôt Ou Tard • Pas Assez • J’avais Rêvé (Dialogue) • J’avais Rêvé (Première Prise) • Demain (Alternative Mix) • Ne Cherche Pas (Alternative Mix) • Puisque Tu Es Revenu (Dialogue) • Puisque Tu Es Revenu (Alternative Mix)

Spotify (partial availability in US)

[girlsdressingrooms]

Miss Françoise (17 janvier 1944 - 11 juin 2024)

Miss Françoise Hardy was someone whose work and voice transcended years of work. She was untouchable in her own right. Enigmatic, unforgettable – both on the stage, and off it.

Today she has passed after battling lymphatic cancer over the years, leaving a legacy of fashion and music in memoriam. A rock-and-roll Chanson muse with her finger firmly on the yé-yé French ballads of the mid-century, Miss Hardy was a master of soulful crooning. Tous les garçons et les filles, her crowning hit broke over 2.5 million units of sales. She donned Yves Saint Laurent, Paco Rabanne, Courrège and revolutionized the French-fille aesthetic, melding knits and leather with interchangeability. She was responsible for the naming of Comme des Garçons. Rei Kawakubo named her eponymous label after a Hardy song.

We have Miss Hardy to thank in so many realms. She was coolest and most talented and beautiful people ever to live. Listen to her music, Watch her movie, read her books. Your life will improve by magnitudes.

Rest in Power !

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Tous les garçons et les filles (1962), Le Premier Bonheur du jour (1963), Mon amie la rose (1964), L'amitié (1965), La maison où j'ai grandi (1966), Ma jeunesse fout le camp… (1967), Comment te dire adieu (1968), Françoise Hardy

There’s a tendency to assume all French music (and all French people, for that matter), are elegant and sophisticated, an assumption which is of course severely mistaken and rather silly, though several cultural figures have, over the years, fed it. Françoise Hardy is one of those cool Frenchies, with her classic sort of presented Frenchness – but she was also atypical. Hardy’s opening decade shows her distinction from the start, the extent to which her style was not just classier and less coquettish than most yé-yé girls but also unforcedly refined. How could one listen to this and not be seduced by a sense of sophistication? Perhaps I’ll be made a Francophile yet.

Pick(s): ‘Le temps de l’amour’, ‘Nous tous’, ‘Je veux qu’il revienne’, ‘Ce n’est pas un rêve’, ‘Je changerais d’avis (se telefonado)’, ‘Voilá’, ‘Comment te dire adieu’

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Françoise Hardy- Le premier bonheur du jour (Yé-yé) Released: October 1963 [Disques Vogue] Producer(s): Jacques Wolfsohn

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Sylvie Vartan

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Stella - Le Silence (1967)

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Sylvie Vartan

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Du chant à la une !… (1958), N° 2 (1959), L'Étonnant Serge Gainsbourg (1961), N° 4 (1962), Serge Gainsbourg

As a first plunge into the world of Serge Gainsbourg, his opening decade remains both an easy entry point and remarkably illustrative of charms that persisted throughout his career. Du chant à la une !... [Singing on the Front Page!...], N° 2, L'Étonnant Serge Gainsbourg [The Amazing Serge Gainsbourg] and N° 4 sit comfortably between chanson, exotica, cabaret and vocal jazz, all capturing Gainsbourg’s beauty, his knack for snap and sark, his agility, playfulness and boundless melody.

Pick(s): ‘Le Poinçonneur des Lilas’, ‘L’anthracite’, ‘En relisant ta lettre’, ‘Black Trombone’