La chanson du jour - French songs 101

Nicole Croisille: Aujourd'hui c'est toi (1966)

From the film Un homme, une femme. YT

Pierre Barouh: Plus fort que nous (Un homme et une femme) - 1965

Like for the previous song Pierre Barouh and Francis Lai wrote the lyrics and the music of Plus fort que nous. Pierre Barouh sings with Nicole Croisille.

Nicole Croisille: Téléphone moi (1976)

 Nicole Croisille sings Téléphone moi.

Pour commencer: Un homme et une femme, Samba Saravah (1966)

Un homme et une femme de Pierre Barouh (lyrics) and Francis Lai (Music) and Samba Saravah. Samba Saravah's music  and lyrics are by Baden Powell  and Vinicius de Moraes with the French version by Pierre Barouh included in the movie of Claude Lelouch that won the palmes d'or in Cannes in 1966 and the oscar for best foreign film in 1967.

Un homme et une femme's song is famous for the badabadaba part... Here is the post of a blogger addicted to the song.

The text of Pierre Barouh about Samba is very close to what I think about songs in general: he says he loves chansons and we do. For many people "songs" are somehow like pulp literature, enjoyed privately but not really celebrated as cultural icons except by the fact they can be extremely profitable. What I want to do is share with you (and an american audience?) a selection of French songs I especially like.