The French Song Thread

Charles Trenet - La Mer

.http://youtu.be/5d7kYfqoTwc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2kkr0e_dTQ

Port of Amsterdam - Jacques Brel

Gare au Gorille. - Georges Brassens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYWyQn50Mto

C'est extra - Léo Ferré
Le Sud - Nino Ferrer
Alexandrie - Claud Francois
La Bonne Etoile - M
J'ai encore revé d'elle - Il Etait Une Fois
Mlle Chang - France Gall

Thomas Bangalter

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcb1ZN7Jo_4

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKSPOUEuqAE

Edith Piaf - No Regrets

Edith Piaf

Thanks for joining in my thread, guys

Pierre Bachelet -Emmanuelle

.http://youtu.be/golKBU7vEJg

Le Paradis Blanc - Michel Berger , there is a great version by Amandine Bourgois on "Acoustic"
Diego - Michel Berger, written for Johnny
La Javanaise - Serge Gainsbourg

Le Paradis Blanc - Michel Berger , there is a great version by Amandine Bourgois on "Acoustic"
Diego - Michel Berger, written for Johnny
La Javanaise - Serge Gainsbourg

Shocking omission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA

Was just about to post that Foinavon. Lovely song

Petula Clark - Boum

.http://youtu.be/TpksF6tNxmo

Caused a bit of a stir at the time Makybe Diva, Agree, it's a lovely song.

I have to go to bed now, I have to be up for work in the morning.

Thanks for your contributions to the thread.

Maybe when the other chit-chatters return from their dogging evening they will post some songs too

Night night

Bonsoir MD.

My contribution is Brigitte Bardot and 'Moi Je Joue':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js3t51n3EQc

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqeKDs_5cQk

Mélanie de Biasio - Les hommes endormis

Dalida -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF6Gvs5iaS8

get with it!!

https://youtu.be/WfD8Dnh2xho

Don't mind at all Aka, that's a lovely song.

Aww, Brigitte Bardot

I'll never get to bed now with all these lovely songs to listen too.

Thank you, sofiakenny. Not what I had in mind but all contributions welcome

I feel I can go to bed now, having listened to that.

Night all.

LE MANEGE ENCHANTE (the magic roundabout)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ho3LezxM-g&spfreload=1

The Stranglers - La Folie
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9cSa6EjVRA

Jacques Brel - Mon Enfance

Une omission choquant -

Une Belle Histoire - Michel Fugain

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2UhQAhLc2Y


Aussi:

Pink Martini - Sympathetique

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLaY4aksfRo



Gillian Hills - Tut Tut Tut Tut

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv9YUCa6Bzw

"Joe le Taxi" Vanessa Paradis

Sank 'eavens For Leetle Girls....some lecherous Chevalier guy.

"All Over The World" the beautiful Francoise Hardy (now 70+ for God's sake)!

"Dominique".... by Je Ne Sais Pas.

"Alouette" French Canadian....aussi de Je Ne Sais Pas

"La Mer"....Charles Trenet

“Non, je ne regrette rien” Edith Piaf

Appologies if mentioned before but I only just came on...

Frog Chorus - Macca

"La Marseillaise".....how could we forget?

To add to Aunty Post's theme

Le chant des partisans. This always sends a frisson down my spine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRhg-Ioik8c

This one especially for Makybe Diva.

"J'attendrai" by Jean Sablon. An old classic with beautiful lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApMGZVyEtAY

Puisque vous partez en voyages - Jean Sablon
La Montagne - Jean Ferrat
La Musique est bonne - J J Goldman
Jardin d'hiver - Henri Salvador

I will wait for you,from the classic film LesParapluies DE Cherbourg-Michel Legrand.This would bring a tear to a glass eye.enjoy.
FRED.

Burton-Brewers   
11 Jun 15 10:08 
Frog Chorus - Macca

Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v98HEQvtpgo

Me Gustas Tu - Manu Chao
Zen - Rockia Traore
Je pense a toi- Amadou et Mariam

If you feel the need to strum along, the chords for most of the titles mentioned on this thread can be found on Tonton Remy.

Alouette - A charming nursery rhyme describing the French approach to dealing with a lark which wakes you up in the morning.

Lark
Nice lark
Lark
I will pluck you.

I will pluck your head
I will pluck your head etc.

Stereolab - Cybele's Reverie
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https://youtu.be/ClhrUkVDv6w

Some nice songs there. Thanks for posting

The Magic Roundabout is so sweet

As for Alouette. Who knew?!

I sang that loads as a child.

Plucking a birds head...I had no idea

Is this a without 'Frere Jacques' or 'Sur Le Pont D'Avignon' thread?

Or 'A nous comptons'

Aww, Spelling, I loved those songs too

I don't think I know that one

I will listen to it tomorrow. Have to go to bed now.

Petite meller ~ baby love

http://youtu.be/XDBJVgIVPcs

Apres Toi - Vicky leandros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd8vbRaHBuw

Le Marseilles - Mireille Mathieu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIxOl1EraXA

Une Nuit A Paris - 10cc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0puHKg_CjQ

Run - Air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kspnwhAFpcA

Digital Love - Daft Punk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnsnZvR4X68

Magnetic Fields Part 1 - Jean Michel Jarre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX5oI5YYIZM

That baby love track might just appear on your number one singles thread, Anubis7

Madame Reve - Alain Bashung

Yes,it has potential.

Au Clair de la Lune.

first song I learned to play on the violin

Just opened this thread to see if the first french song I bought was here (it was Francoise Hardy - Tous Les Garcons Et Les Filles)

Inch Allah - Salvatore Adamo , a hit nearly everywhere since 1967 . Cut back these days due to peace loving Momos.

Lee

Joe Dassin
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http://youtu.be/4kZ0EZg5JRU

Mariage de Notre Fille - Chaises de Pelouse


ils sont partout!!

La horse by that serge bloke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0p2RHASNtk

Was in France on a cricket tour last september, I was fascinating all and sundry by drunkenly, and repeatedly, reminding the two frenchies on our team how sh1te their music is.  Everyone kept banging on about this serge bloke, "never heard of him" I humourously replied.  Well I got home and played a bit and he ain't all bad.

Claude François - Comme d'habitude
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMoY5rNBjwk

Paul Anka pinched the tune for My Way.

Bienvenue dans la Jungle - Guns et Roses

Charles Aznavour - La Boheme

Edith Piaf - Milord

Jacques Brel - Fils de

Charles Aznavour - La Boheme

Edith Piaf - Milord

Jacques Brel - Fils de

Makybe Diva starts this thread with to me the best song writer of them all.
Francois Hardy wrote so many beautiful songs no point in listing them all.
Beautiful in the sixties,elegant in the seventies and eighties,graceful since then,this woman is an example of how to age.

Two other songs for you both written by the artist and famous for an English cover.


Ame Caline
Michel Polnareff

A great song with a wonderful instrumental version by the Raymond Lefevre orchestra called Soul Coaxing.


Amoureuse
Veronique Sanson.

Another beautiful song with a belated cover by Kiki Dee.

Thanks for all the songs guys. I have listened to them all

I had no idea that Frank Sinatra's My Way was a cover, with different lyrics too

You learn something new everyday on chit-chat

David Bowie was asked to write the English lyrics for Comme D'Habitude,(later My Way), but they were discarded . Hard to believe but that was a year or so before Space Oddity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PDmZnG8KsM   voyage voyage

Jolly well bumped by you there Diva...following an eight month sabbatical.

A most wholesome and pleasing thread......

Jacques Brel - Mon Enfance

             - Ne Me Quitte Pas

Voyage Voyage

Aunty

Ne Me Quitte Pas

F.R.David - Words
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http://youtu.be/yOikc8sa_0o

the singing nuns

The beautifully wistful Le Temps des Cerises by Yves Montand.

Very nice, Vubiant

Terry, I'd forgotten about the singing nun

I will find a link, be right back...

Dominique
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http://youtu.be/EO7cD6qmydo

I wasn't aware there was a disco version!

I like it.
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http://youtu.be/9uJLAhZU95E

Oh no. I didn't know about her tragic end
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http://haveringhavers.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/sad-strange-tale-of-singing-nun.html

My wife loves this Diva. Lovely music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg0IFP6ORkY

Thanks Aka, that's lovely

Never heard of L'Angelus.

This is nice too... Lac Bijou
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http://youtu.be/M-Kp42g-Doo

They are a most unusual band. Very much like The Corrs.

Brown Eyed Girl
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http://youtu.be/4mXlXinGyzQ

I've heard practically everything they've ever done many times over thanks to the wife.

They've performed with a host of Cajun acts over the years.
Not in this clip but I love this music. Eddie Le Jeune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSJRo4xuE-k

Jun 10, 2015 -- 10:29PM, sofiakenny wrote:

get with it!!https://youtu.be/WfD8Dnh2xho

Didnae ken you were a rocker, Sofi.

Good call, btw...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxLaVF2U27c

^ been yeeeeeeeeeeears since I heard it!

Immigrants luvin it

Listen a fair bit to French radio at work and here are some good ones I've come across

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVtzQHaLmUM   Patrick Coutier - J'aime regarder les filles sur la plage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY9PY4r83p8 Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie And Clyde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yleB8fUXudw  Louane  - Jour 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrgcRvBJYBE

Noir Désir - Le Vent Nous Portera

Some good links there. I listen to them all

Dan's video is bit grim . Very good tho'.

http://youtu.be/cQwdrBvuCy4

I like that, Breedingmad.

I'm very nearly not talking to you, after the Annie Power thread you posted earlier

The post was aimed at brassneck not meant to offend...

https://youtu.be/vMbfFv3yv5s

Michael Calfan - could be a number one?

Il Voyage - Françoise Hardy
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https://youtu.be/H1Y41sE0rf0

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