Here you all go.
So I need to go to bed. This is a true fact. But in the course of my weekly research for City of Light and Shadow, I stumbled upon this website with a bunch of pop musicians playing on French TV. That Bonnie Tyler was one...Here is Roxy Music:
This, is the French TV thread...10 songs before I go to bed. This Aretha's version of Eleanor Rigby. I love this version so much it should be illegal.
I think Serge Gainsbourg is a bit of a creeper...but I have long been obsessed with this duet he did with Brigitte Bardot..."Bonnie and Clyde" 1968.
Also, @doublecrits and @Wandering_DM I'm playing French music and thinking of you two!
So Tiny Yong was a French Vietnamese YeYe singer in the 60s and I think she kills this chanson. Also, I'm always interested in Asian diasporic singers since they get so little visibility:
Now, most appropriate to my French Resistance game...here is the amazing Josephine Baker. American dancer, singer, French Resistance member, and holder of the Crois de Guerre. Here she is singer her signature tune in 1968.
And here is Jacques Brel singing "Jef" in 1964...I will tell you all what. Jacque Brel commits to the song.
This is fun! Here's a video by Johnny Hallyday, the French Elvis. This one is from 1960. "Ne Joue pas"
Now I'm going to give you Les Poppys. They were founded in 1946...they were France's first child stars. They sold more albums than the Beatles in Germany. They sang anti Viet Nam War songs...and since I know them, you must, too.
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