Blog: Filles Sourires

Guestpost! Sky on Nicoletta: France's biggest-selling hit of 1971 was the dull folk-pop earworm Mamy Blue , sung by Nicole Grisoni alias Nicoletta. Despite the huge success, the beguiling brunette had already recorded a row of considerably more impressive tunes, among them the solemn Il est mort de soleil which made Ray Charles call her his „soul sister", and her sublime technicolor version of Jacques Brel's wistful Quand on n'a que l'amour – a mighty, but never exalted voice, and one of the finest grand-screen arrangements in the history of French song. Quite [...]

• François De Roubaix - Le Canal Gelé
• Nicoletta - Jeff ('69)
• Nicoletta - Quand on n'a que l'amour