Infinite joy found in 60s French pop videos
Music // Steve // 29th January 2006
Feeling a bit down in grey old January? Cheer yourself up with Sixties French pop videos over at YouTube (via ilike).
Even the hardest of techno-loving hearts could not fail to be melted by Sixties teenage babypop star France Gall's hip-swinging "Laisse Tomber Les Filles". I love the stomping "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" which won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965.
There's also some rare film of Gitane-aholic Serge Gainsbourg not glued to a fag in the pervy-looking "Dents de lait, dents de loup" and "Les Sucettes", and then he's back with the cigs and Brigitte Bardot (toting a tommy gun) in the classic "Bonnie and Clyde". There's plenty of good stories on the indefatiguable Gainsbourg at the Guardian website.
Oh and don't watch "Tous les Gar‚àö?üons et Les Filles" if you've just eaten - Ms. Hardy is lipsyncing on one of those fairground boats and it's all a bit vertiginous.
Comments
More France Gall joy here.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CC4F7B2B706C69C4
“Quand on est ensemble” is the one that will probably have me carted off to prison - how old she there?
stevepaperjam : 11/02/2006 16:00:29