La chanson du jour - French songs 101

Florent Pagny: Savoir Aimer (1997)

Florent Pagny is a star and this song a hit. I had never heard it. He remained totally under my radar: I am too old. Authors: Lionel Florence (lyrics) and Pascal Obispo (music).

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Ray Ventura et ses collégiens: Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise (1935)

 Ray Ventura et ses collégiens performs this famous song. I found the picture on this blog (it has many others).
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Michel Polnareff: La poupée qui fait non (1966)

 Michel Polnareff and La poupée qui fait non in this later recording on YouTube. I regret that I chose this song instead of many others that I like much more like like the melodious Love me, please love me published on the same record along with Ame caline and Sous quelle étoile suis-je né... My mistake, sorry. But I did pick them for you.

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Jean-Jacques Debout: Les boutons dorés (1959)

Jean-Jacques Debout had not yet met Chantal Goya when he performed Les boutons dorés (lyrics by Vidalin and Music by Datin) that launched his career as a singer. A nice melody. Vidalin and Datin often worked as a team (they also wrote Nous les amoureux we presented one week ago).
I could not find his version on YouTube so this is a version by Thomas Voiment. Surprise: a very different and earlier version by Barbara in 1957. And another one slightly different (I think). Barbara is such a great singer. It looks like there is not much about Jean-Jacques Debout although he was the one whose interpretation was the most popular.

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Chantal Goya: Bécassine, c'est ma cousine (1979)

 Chantal Goya created the hit Bécassine, c'est ma cousine (written -as usual- by her husband Jean-Jacques Debout) in 1979. I am not sure any of our daughters remembers this song but it was a triumph. Chantal Goya was immensely popular because of those songs for children that the parents also hummed. I see there was a version in English, Bécassine is my cousine.

I did not know she had been an actress before being a singer (for instance in Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Féminin in 1966).

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