Ha! In your face eBay sniper software! That bid in the last 2 seconds just wasn't enough to beat my highest bid. I win. You lose. I am happy. But what did I win? Currently winging its way to me is this piece of vintage vinyl. Track 2 is Sylvie's breathtaking version of The Spencer Davis Group 's mod-scorcher Gimme Some Lovin' . Now gimme some Sylvie! [...]
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Alright, so it's no Dusty In Memphis, but that is not to say Sylvie A Nashville is without its charms-quite the contrary. Not unlike the Dusty In Memphis project, here we find yé-yé French chanteuse Sylvie Vartan away from the Saint-Germain and in wilds of Nashville during the mid-60s trying her hand at cutting some [...]
French it-boy Julien Doré made a new album, you may have seen the very funny clip that goes with single Kiss Me Forever. The album has several Gainsbourgian touches, you may recall his cover of SG's S S in Uruguay on his debut, and the clip for Les Limites (that referred to a video Gainsbourg made for Chez les yeye's ). The deluxe-version comes with a bonus-disc with English songs, made with his former band. I prefer the French tunes, like the (again) Gainsbourgian Golf Bonjovi, the song Glenn Close (JD likes [...]
Christmas 2010 did already pass, I know, Christmas A Go Go already shut its door for this year, but luckily there's always room for some Serge Gainsbourg paraphernalia here at FS. In 1965 a television show started at ORTF in France called Dim Dam Dom , which stood for Dimanche, Dames and D(h)ommes. The show ran for six years until 1970 and intended to be informative and humoristic with musical intermezzi. It was presented by girls like Françoise Hardy, Mireille Darc, Nathalie Delon, France Gall, Marie Laforêt and Sheila. In 1966 Dim Dam Dom [...]
Legendary ye-ye singer Sylvie Vartan returns with a very strong album , produced by Keren Ann & Doriand, who also wrote a couple of songs. Others who contributed are Benjamin Biolay (La Vanité, great song), David Hallyday (her son), La Grande Sophie and Etienne Daho. The production is very sixties, with plush keys, loads of strings and guitars drowning in echo. Duet-partners are Doriand, Julien Doré and Arthur H. Vartan isn't the world's best singer anymore - then again, she never was. This album is way better than the rehashes on Nouvele Vague. See the duet with Doré [...]
Peppermoon , the beloved trio from Paris returns with on October 18 with a great new album. Because of the 5th birthday of this blog, I can post some new tracks. Main man Pierre Faa tells all: Happy birthday Filles sourires ! Joyeux anniversaire... Thank you Guuz for these five years of passion, thanks for opening doors to artists like us. We owe a lot to Filles Sourires and the Filles Fragiles compilations . And we keep only good memories from the Filles Fragiles tour you set up. Five years [...]
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Wer glaubt, MTV sei für die Erfindung des Musikvideos verantwortlich, irrt gewaltig. Französische Regisseure leisteten bereits in den 60ern Pionierarbeit. Sylvie Vartan - Cette lettre-là [Im Feed kann dieses Video nicht angezeigt werden.Klicke zum Blogeintrag um das Video anzusehen.] Jacques Dutronc - Les gens sont fous, les temps sont flous [Im Feed kann dieses Video nicht angezeigt werden.Klicke zum [...]
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Wer glaubt, MTV sei für die Erfindung des Musikvideos verantwortlich, irrt gewaltig. Französische Regisseure leisteten bereits in den 60ern Pionierarbeit. Sylvie Vartan - Cette lettre-là [Im Feed kann dieses Video nicht angezeigt werden. Klicke zum Blogeintrag um das Video anzusehen.] Jacques Dutronc - Les gens sont fous, les temps sont flous [Im Feed kann dieses Video nicht angezeigt werden. Klicke zum Blogeintrag um das Video anzusehen.] Johnny Hallyday - Noir c'est noir [...]
Sylvie Vartan En Ecoutant La Pluie Margo Guryan Think of Rain James Carr These Ain't Raindrops Shout Out Louds Hard Rain Relentless caper for all those who step The legend of their youth into the noon Hart Crane [...]
Sylvie Vartan Ne T'en Vas Pa s Ria Bartok Je Ne Veux Pas Qu'il Me Quitte Nina Simone Ne Me Quitte Pas
Colour me surprised by the work of Sylvie Vartan , a yé-yé girl of no little talent. What I expected to be another French girl belting out typical sixties fare has revealed itself to be a smart, tough little comp of some of Sylive's best sixties moments -- though the highlights are her tracks from 1967, of which there are too few here. Missing too are the three tracks from 1968 produced by Jean-Claude Vannier , 'La Maritza', 'Un p'tit peu beaucoup' and 'Jolie poupée'. But despite this lack, Sylvie's bite and bellow pushes through and [...]
Sylvie Vartan sing Renown Japanese in 1965. Thanks of micahwave .
Or Joyeux Quatorze Juillet, to all of our French friends. For those of you unfamiliar with the celebration, today is French Independence Day. It is the 220th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille by the citizens of France, who had grown disillusioned with the rule of Louis XVI (though technically, it's the celebration of the celebration of the year after). It's the equivalent of our July 4th celebrations, and much like our holiday, the French often celebrate with parades & fireworks. And actually, there are a number of US cities that have notorious Bastille day celebrations, [...]
The Ye-Ye movement was emblematic of the French 60s. With singers such as France Gall, Francoise Hardy or Sylvie Vartan, they represented a musical style very French, beautiful, innocent and naive to a provocative manner. Gainsbourg (already) was behind a few of them and composed playfully lyrics for them. France Gall famously sang "Annie loves lollipops, aniseed lollipops, when the sweet liquid runs down Annie's throat, she is in paradise" with a voice lovely of candor… One of the lesser known artist of the Ye-Ye movement is Jacqueline Taieb. Born in Tunisia, she moved to France early and [...]
Recently, a couple of nice reissues/compilations came out, featuring music for films with Brigitte Bardot, Serge Gainsbourg's first album and 'the most swinging and most danceable 60's cuts' by Sylvie Vartan. Although her name is big on the cover, Bardot is nowhere to be heard on the three cd's with filmmusic. I bought Love is my profession/Un Parisienne. The female voice you hear on the tracks for the movie Une Parisienne (1957) is from Christiane Legrand. If you're into romantic, loungy orchestral fifties music, you're in for a treat. Take Mambo Bardot, played by Ray Ventura & [...]
SYLVIE VARTAN DEPRIME (COVER EURYTHMICS)
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Það eru sorglega margir sem halda að einkennislag Bo Halldórs, "Þó líði ár og öld", sé í raun eftir eða samið fyrir hann. Hið rétta er auðvitað að þetta lag heitir á frummálinu "Just walk away Renee" og kom fyrst út árið 1967 með hljómsveitinni The Left Banke. Þetta lag reyndist eini alvöru smellur smellur sveitarinnar fyrir utan lagið "Pretty ballerina" sem kom út á sömu plötu. Ekki hafa liðsmenn The Left Banke haft mikla trú á "Just walk away Renee" því laginu var skellt á b-hlið plötunnar. Sagan hefur hinsvegar sýnt að hér er á ferð einn ástsælasti poppsmellur [...]
This chap was at L'Amour Electronique in June. We marvelled at his super-duper, jumbo cord, rubber-legged dancefloor moves... Maybe he'd been watching Sylvie on his Scopitone before he came out that night... Sylvie Vartan - Est-ce Que Tu Le Sais? But we all know, Johnny taught her a few moves back when they met... Johnny Hallyday - Le Twist [...]
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