|
Post by petrolino on Jan 5, 2020 5:17:24 GMT
Songwriters like Serge Gainsbourg, Claude Francois, Michel Berger and Elton John wanted to work with musician France Gall and did. They typically said of meeting her in person (I'm paraphrasing here), she could be quiet and unassuming, but then she'd walk into the studio fully prepared, sometimes with a cigarette in one hand, and guitar in the other. She might sing her part, or play her part, maybe suggest harmonies. She could record the harmonies herself to demonstrate, but they were sometimes so good, they became her own overdubs.
Or, she'd just sit at the piano and play.
|
|
|
Post by Fox in the Snow on Jan 5, 2020 7:31:10 GMT
Big fan, Baby Pop is among my all-time top 10 albums.
My favorite song of hers:
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Jan 5, 2020 18:14:13 GMT
Big fan, Baby Pop is among my all-time top 10 albums. Her father Robert Gall wrote some of the lyrics for that album. He'd worked with a lot of prominent French artists. Very musical family. He used to scat attack France when her back was turned with a few shoobie doobie doos, like the pairs in Creedence Clearwater Revival did at rehearsals.
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Jun 24, 2020 23:35:49 GMT
🇫🇷 La Famille Gall 🇫🇷
'Le Soleil Au Coeur'
“She leaves behind songs that everyone in France knows, and set an example of a life devoted to others.”
- President Emmanuel Macron
"She was a great French artist and a great woman."
- Elton John
"France Gall was one of several French '60s icons to inspire the European look adopted by Faye Dunway in 'Bonnie & Clyde', a movie that changed the direction of cinema."
- Conrad Dietz
'Il Jouait Du Piano Debout'
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall : She Did It Her Way (elle l'a fait à sa façon ...)
"Françoise Hardy, France Gall, Sylvie Vartan, Jacques Dutronc and Michel Polnareff became household names with an infectious musical mélange that was part 1960s beat-guitar twang, part Gallic take on the early rock’n’roll lite of British teen rockers such as Cliff Richard and Helen Shapiro. Their sound was nicknamed ‘yé-yé’, probably in a nod to The Beatles, whom the acts adored and whose American-inspired ‘yeah, yeah, yeah’ refrain in their 1964 smash She Loves You was, amazingly, still considered slightly shocking at that point. Françoise Hardy was, arguably, in a league of her own. In 1962, when she was just 18, her self-penned hit Tous les Garçons et les Filles sold two million copies and when other hits followed such as Mon Ami la Rose, her face became a regular fixture on the covers of Paris Match and other fashionable magazines of the day. But she was more than a teen phenomenon: her fans included The Beatles, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, and Mick Jagger, who declared her his ‘ideal woman’, while Bob Dylan dedicated a poem to her on the sleeve of his 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan. Hardy stood apart from her contemporaries both musically and visually. The songs of her fellow yé-yé artists had a jaunty joie de vivre and singalong exuberance, most notably the Serge Gainsbourg-penned hits for France Gall such as the Eurovision-winning Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son and Laisse Tomber les Filles, and Gainsbourg’s own duets with Brigitte Bardot including Docteur Jekyll et Monsieur Hyde. By contrast, even Hardy’s more upbeat numbers had a plaintive quality that matched her more poised image. In Tous les Garçons et les Filles, she sang of a young girl who walks alone while watching young couples pass by, hand-in-hand, gazing into each other’s eyes. Many of her ensuing lyrics were equally sad, not least her heartbreaking 1973 classic Message Personnel, in which she tells a lover of her fear of expressing her true feelings. The fact that she wrote her own lyrics seemed to cement her role as the patron saint of the dispossessed and heartbroken. Hardy’s image also set her apart. While Sheila, Sylvie Vartan and France Gall sported neatly coiffed bobs, flipped curls and pleats, and were often photographed jumping or running, Hardy’s record sleeves showed her looking composed and pensive. With her insouciant fringe, glacier cheekbones and soulful eyes, guitar strapped to her back, she looked as if she had wandered out of beatnik-filled Greenwich Village, albeit with a hearty soupçon of Parisian chic."
- Eddi Fiegel
'France Gall inspired her jilted boyfriend Claude François to write a mournful ballad about lost love called Comme D’Habitude (As Usual, in English). The Canadian songwriter Paul Anka heard the song during a trip to Paris in 1967 and was so taken by it that he bought the rights, rewrote the lyrics for Frank Sinatra and gave it a new title: My Way. Ol’ Blue Eyes failed to get to No 1 with the song – after peaking at No 5 in the UK charts – but My Way went on to stay in the UK Top 40 for two and a half years, a record that has never been equalled. It has since gone down in history as such a classic that it has been covered by more than 100 artists from Elvis Presley to Sid Vicious and is said to be requested for funerals more than any other track. No wonder French President Emmanuel Macron marked Gall’s passing with a heartfelt tweet and his culture minister described her as “a timeless icon of French song”.'
- Dominic Midgley
The Art Of Collaboration
"Despite her success, France Gall’s life was marked by tragedy. She had another major international hit in 1987 with the album Babacar – including the song Ella, elle l’a, her tribute to Ella Fitzgerald – with music and lyrics by her husband and musical partner Michel Berger, who died in 1992 aged 44. She retired from recording and performing in 1997, following the death from cystic fibrosis of their eldest child, Pauline. She devoted herself largely to humanitarian work until a comeback performance in a 2015 stage show based on her and her husband’s songs."
- Maev Kennedy
France Gall & Sacha Distel
Serge Gainsbourg & France Gall
Julien Clerc & France Gall
Johnny Hallyday, Georgette Lemaire, France Gall, Annie Philippe & President 'Radio' Rosko
Michel Berger, France Gall & Catherine Deneuve
Fabienne Thibeault & France Gall
Elton John & France Gall
France Gall & Charles Aznavour
"All my life, I've been looking for happiness ..."
- France Gall
'Sole Mare Cielo Amore'
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Jul 8, 2020 21:14:54 GMT
La Fille Psychédélique Yé-Yé Devient Une Légende Du Chanteur Schlager
'Hippie Hippie'
'In 1968, Serge Gainsbourg protégé France Gall participated in the televised song contest Deutscher Schlager-Wettbewerb (“The German Schlager Competition”) where hundreds of composers and lyricists from all over Europe were called upon to write a brand new hit song. A total of 495 titles were submitted, and only twelve songs were selected for the finals which were broadcast live on channel ZDF. Although she was French-born and famously known as a yé-yé singer, Gall did enjoy a successful career in Germany in the late ‘60s. With a little help from Werner Müller and Giorgio Moroder, she published 42 songs in German language between 1966 and 1972. On July 4th, 1968, 21-year-old France Gall took the stage at the Berliner Philharmonie concert hall and performed a song titled “Der Computer Nr.3” live with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra leaving 300 people and a panel of judges dramatically baffled over what in the world she was singing about: “Computer #3 searches the right boy for me. The computer knows the perfect woman for every man and happiness is drawn instantly from its files.” The song then suddenly takes an unexpected turn when it switches over to a vocoder German computer voice which pre-dates the formation of Kraftwerk “22 Jahre, schwarze Haare, von Beruf Vertreter, Kennzeichen: Geld wie Heu” (Age: 22 years, black hair, professional representative, features: money galore) The song (credited to the biggest hit-making duo in Germany at the time: music producer Christian Bruhn and lyricist Georg Buschor) then takes yet another completely unexpected turn as it dips into a Beatles cover for a brief moment before diving right back into the subject matter at hand. “Lange war ich einsam, heut’ bin ich verliebt, und nur darum ist das so, weil es die Technik und die Wissenschaft und Elektronengehirne gibbet.” Translated into English, France Gall is singing perfectly to the “Eight Days A Week” melody “Ohh I need your love babe, yes you know it’s true, that’s only because the technology and science and electrons are there.” Cut to the audience to see hundreds of upper-class post-war Germans staring blankly, emotionless, and reactionless at the very first song ever written about computer dating. While personal computers and the internet were still years away, computer dating was an actual trend in the late ‘60s being targeted to lonely hearts all over the world by way of magazine advertorials. Participants would submit their vital stats, a punchcard-plotted questionnaire, and a personal check in the amount of $3-5 in an old-fashioned stamp-licked envelope. Then they waited patiently (usually several weeks or months) while an IBM mainframe the size of an entire room crunched the numbers on their personalities, intelligence, and preferences (no photos were involved). The results of Deutscher Schlager-Wettbewerb’s televised presentation were gravely chaotic as scattered judges, polling institutes, and radio jurors submitted their scores in a matter that was impossible for any spectator to follow. The number one song was eventually awarded to Swedish pop singer and actress Siw Malmkvist. “Der Computer Nr.3” took third place in the contest and charted decently when released as a single on Decca Records. '
- Dangerous Minds
"In France, it is customary to kiss when we exchange two kisses (especially in Paris) and in some regions it is four, but never only one."
- Claudus 1943
France Gall in the Claude 1943 Archive
'Computer Nr3'
From 'Jazz A Go-Go' (United States of America) to 'Yume Ni Mita Ojisama' (Japan), 'La Pioggia' (Italy) to 'Samba Mambo' (Brazil), 'Les Accidents D'Amour' (Jamaica) to 'Calypso' (Trinidad & Tobago), France Gall embraced traditional styles of music from around the globe, incorporating elements of them into her own distinctive French style. When her friend and musical collaborator Daniel Balavoine died in a helicoptor crash in 1986 while travelling in Africa, she worked with composer Michel Berger to underpin a contemplative section of their musical tribute 'Evidemment' with a synthesised, woodwind tribal rhythm filtered through muted echo pads; Maurane (born in the 1960s), Lara Fabian (born in the 1970s) and Emma Daumas (born in the 1980s) are among the many international singers to have covered this track which continues to resonate across the generations.
France Gall travelled, toured and performed in Japan where she was cited for her honourable conduct, behaviour and deportment
France Gall relaxing back home in Paris
A keen tennis player, France Gall assisted the French Tennis Federation and was asked by President Philippe Chatrier to select numbers in the draw for the 1973 French Open, a tournament dominated by the great Romanian Ilie Nastase
'Ich Liebe Dich So Wie Du Bist'
"After playing France Gall in Joann Sfar's first feature, Gainsbourg, heroic life, Sara Forestier replies to Jacques Gamblin (Les Enfants du marais, Le Premier Jour du rest de ta vie) in the successful Le Nom des gens. In the guise of the extrovert Bahia, who sleeps with men with political opinions different from her to convert them to her cause, the actress confirms her talent and is crowned with the César for Best Actress in 2011 for this original role and unusual."
- Camille Griner
Sara Forestier as France Gall in 'Gainsbourg : A Heroic Life' (2010)
'Kommst Du Zu Mir?'
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Jul 8, 2020 23:52:16 GMT
# Schlager Girls : Uschi Glas & France Gall
'Mein Wochenende' - Uschi Glas & Peter Thomas
France Gall Im Jahr 1968 : Gefördert Von Bravo Magazine
'Toi Que Je Veux'
Uschi Glas Im Jahr 1968 : Die Schlager-Sängerin, Die Zum Pin-up-Girl Des Bravo-Magazins Wurde
'Cover Girl'
'Das Kann Schon Mal Passieren'
Kalender Mädchen : France Gall Im Jahr 1970
'Rue De L'Abricot'
|
|
|
Post by Feologild Oakes on Jul 9, 2020 0:35:44 GMT
One of my favorite singers I have 16 of her albums
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Jul 12, 2020 22:22:28 GMT
🎲 Yé-Yé Pop Revolution 🎲
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has brought vintage music to many of us, for which I'm thankful (as I'm sure many are, though not all, obviously). His action thriller 'Death Proof' (2007) features a cover of the song 'Laisse Tomber Les Filles' by April March. Lots of musical artists have covered this song and it's been subjected to a myriad of remixes that strip away the essence of Serge Gainsbourg's musicality and France Gall's vocal expression.
"Cinema is my religion and France is the Vatican."
- Quentin Tarantino
'Laisse Tomber Les Filles'
--
🎲 Ye Ye ("Ye Ye ...") 🎲
"France Gall was an icon in every sense of the word. She ascended the fame ladder when she was a mere teenager, following her 1965 win of the Eurovision Contest, singing the song “Poupée de cire, poupée de son.” And throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, she had hit records, along with tour-de-force singing partners like Elton John for duets. The pair recorded “Donner Pour Donner” in 1980. She was, what the French call, a “Yé-yé” singer. Yé-yé was a style of pop music that has origins in France, Belgium, and other western European countries in the 1960s. Singers like Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Hardy popularized the style. The name Yé-yé comes from the English “Yeah! Yeah!” type of beats and lyrics that emerged from British pop singers like the Beatles. Gall was one of the early Yé-yé singers, and came out with her first hit album when she was only 16 years old."
- Anne McCarthy, Bonjour Paris
"I don’t know what I would be if the Lumiere brothers’ mother and father had never met. I’d probably be selling royales with cheese at McDonalds.”
- Quentin Tarantino at the Lumiere Awards
'Nous Ne Sommes Pas Des Anges' - France Gall
'C'est Un Secret' - Francine Sarall
'Une Echarpe, Une Rose' / 'C'Est Bien Bernard' - Chantal Goya
'Le Coeur Au Bout Des Doigts' - Jacqueline Taieb
'La Nuit Est Sur La Ville' - Francoise Hardy
'Une Pluie De Feu' - Francine
'Ne Fais Pas La Tete' \ 'Dis Lui Que Je Pense A Lui' - Katty Line
'Il Revient Mon Copain' - Laura Ulmer
'C'Est La Mode' - Annie Philippe
'Las Flechas Del Amor' - Karina
'Fallait Pas Ecraser La Queue Du Chat' - Clothilde
'Bien Bien Bien' - Orlane Paquin
'La Musique Et La Danse' - Christie Laume
'Viva Maria' - Margareta Paslaru
'Allo Monsieur La Haut' - France Gall
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Aug 1, 2020 21:31:12 GMT
📀 France Gall : Space Explorer 💿
'La Chanteuse Qui A Tout Donne'
⭐ 'Starmania : The Musical' (1978)
Music by Michel Berger Lyrics by Luc Plamondon
Cast
Daniel Balavoine Claude Dubois Diane Dufresne Eric Esteve France Gall René Joly Grégory Ken Fabienne Thibault Nanette Workman
Radio interview with France Gall recorded in Quebec, Canada in 1977
'Francophone musical, originally released in France and Québec as a double album, Starmania: ou la passion de Johnny Rockfort selon les évangiles télévisé ["Starmania: or the passion of Johnny Rockfort according to the televised gospels"], in which form critics found its concept, shorn of interstitial explanation, hard to comprehend. It subsequently premiered in France a year later as a musical, Starmania, thereby revealing the sf plot that linked the songs: an allegory of the Media Landscape, in which a Near Future business tycoon, Zéro Janvier (Dubois) runs for political office, thereby pitting himself against the revolutionary Johnny Rockfort (Balavoine), who is in fact a pawn of the aristocrat Sadia (Workman), who disguises herself as a commoner in order to manipulate the masses. While the setting is a deeply symbolic City, in which the rich dwell in a golden tower above an underclass that meets in a literal "underground cafe", the action revolves around affairs of the heart and crimes of passion. Johnny falls in love with Cristal (Gall), the television presenter who becomes his mouthpiece in the media, causing the jealous Sadia to reveal to Zéro that Johnny's Black Star terrorist group is planning a bombing campaign. A tragic ending awaits, along with a heavy-handed message about the dangers of both terrorism and totalitarianism, and two other doomed couplings among the cast, including the love of Zéro for the fading starlet Stella Spotlight (Dufresne), and that of the Robot waitress Marie-Jeanne (Thibault) for the David Bowie-inspired record producer Ziggy (Ken). Herself something of a call-back to the original robot girl, Maria from Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926), Marie-Jeanne became the musical's literal break-out character, embarking in the finale in a quest for betterment on the surface world, but also singing one of the musical's independently successful songs, "Complainte de la serveuse automate" ["Lament of a Robot Waitress"]. An English translation of the musical, with lyrics by Tim Rice, was performed as Tycoon (1992), running in some venues as an alternate version of the French original; a cast album was released as Starmania: version anglais. Several of the songs from Rice's version became novelty hits in the French-speaking world, including "The World is Stone" [trans of "Le Monde est Stone"] for Cyndi Lauper and "Tonight We Dance, Extravagance!" for Céline Dion, which deftly removed the original's reference to its totalitarian nightclub setting, "Ce soir on danse à Naziland". Dion would have one of her biggest hits in France with a cover version of "Un garcon pas comme les autres", a ballad in which Marie-Jeanne obliquely comments on Ziggy's homosexuality. Revived on multiple occasions in its native Québec, but also in Paris and in several Francophone performances in Russia, Starmania is obscure in the English-speaking world, but is arguably the best-known sf rock opera in the French-speaking world. It merits comparison with We Will Rock You (see Ben Elton; Queen) or Rush's 2012.'
- The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction (SFE)
'Monopolis'
🚀 Space Age Fashionistas
Clothing designed by Andre Courreges, 1968
Clothing designed by Pierre Cardin, 1967
'Comment T'En Apercevoir'
💊 Rogue cyborg Cindi Mayweather (Janelle Monae's alter-ego), of the swollen Metropolis, is a regular attendee at Paris Fashion Week ... 💊
'Musique'
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Jan 15, 2021 21:29:46 GMT
🇫🇷 France Gall : 'Sister Of Senegal' 🇸🇳
France Gall speaks with photographer and environmentalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand in Dakar, Senegal in 2010
In Tribute To France Gall : A Statement From Senegal
'France Gall, the most Senegalese Frenchwoman died, titrated, Sunday January 7, day of death of the singer, the information site Dakaractu, recalling the “love of the artist for this small country on the West African coast. Since the 1980s, and throughout her career, France Gall has had a special relationship with Africa in general, and with Senegal in particular. In 1985, the singer joined the association Chanteurs sans frontières, created to help the victims of the famine that then raged in Ethiopia. As part of this association, led in particular by Rony Brauman, then president of Doctors Without Borders, France Gall is participating in the album SOS Ethiopia, which will be sold in over a million copies. The same year, she launched, with her husband, Michel Berger, Daniel Balavoine, Lionel Rotcage and Richard Berry, the humanitarian operation "Action Schools." Thousands of committees across France are created in schools to raise funds to finance micro-projects in education and water supply.
Fallen under the charm of Senegal, France Gall and Michel Berger buy a house on the Island of Ngor, off the peninsula of Cape Verde, near Dakar, the capital. In the fishing village opposite the island, they built a nursery school in the 1990s. It still exists today. Monday, January 8, the day after the singer’s death, “the students paid tribute to her in song,” reports Samba Diop, fisherman and village guide. It was in this country, she recalled, in 2012, facing Yann Arthus-Bertrand, on the Planet + channel , that she also becomes aware of the problems that the world, Africa among others, may face. It was also there that she met Babacar, who in 1987 became the hero of one of the most emblematic songs of his career. At the time, France Gall was in Senegal for "Action Schools." One evening, as she crosses a village, she sees, "in the dark," a little baby sleeping. She said to the mother, "How beautiful your baby is!" She replied: "If you want, I give it to you." "When I got back to Paris, I told Michel about it, six months later, he released this song for me, "Babacar," she said, a few years ago, on RTL. When she returns to shoot the clip of the song, she finds Babacar, and decides to give her mother "the means to find a job.“ A beautiful story that ends well.
After the death of her daughter, Pauline, in 1997, France Gall decides to share her life between France and Senegal. It is in this country, she said to Yann Arthus-Bertrand, that she will find "peace and true serenity." Although his presence was discreet, France Gall had forged close ties with the Lebous, a fishing community on the Dakar peninsula. In the village of Ngor, many of them remember the one who wandered barefoot on the beach, near the fishing canoes.
Samba Diop remembers: "When she was young, she sometimes went to sea with us. She came to see us as soon as she was in Senegal. At the announcement of her breast cancer, she came to meditate near our sacred baobab to heal herself. It had become a pilgrimage that she made with friends, like Gerard Depardieu. We were all very close to her and everyone here is saddened by her passing. We are talking with the village elders to find out how to honor his memory."
"She was a sister to us."
An announcement of her death, many artists also wanted to pay tribute to her, notably the famous Senegalese songwriter Youssou N'Dour: "She is a sister for us in Senegal. Because she is a person who has shown and demonstrated her love for the country and her attachment to the city of Dakar and to the island of Ngor."
A few years ago, France Gall explained, documentary, about Africa, how blatant “the beauty of beings there is.” And to conclude: "Flamboyant Africa, it is the image of this continent that I want to give."
- Matteo Maillard, 'In Tribute To France Gall', Dakar Correspondence (via Le Monde)
Charlotte Ruphi interviews France Gall (first aired in Switzerland on February 16, 1969)
'The Earth From The Air' : Aerial Photography In East Africa, East Asia & Latin America
"I quit France. I quit my first wife, and went to live with my second wife and her two children in Kenya, with a family of lions. The lions taught me how to take photographs though, really. They taught me patience and beauty. To make my living I was flying tourists in a hot-air balloon. And the two things came together, flying and photography."
- Yann-Arthus Bertrand, The Guardian
France Gall, Michel Berger & Elton John at a craps table in a miniature home casino
'Ella Elle L'A [Extended Supermix]'
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Feb 20, 2021 0:16:53 GMT
Under The Magmafying Lens : France Gall & Jannick Top
Between 1980 and 1993, France Gall recorded extensively with bassist Jannick Top of Magma. This was in the years when she mostly recorded compositions by Michel Berger. The group Magma were her contemporaries and fans of Gall's work. Top also played keyboards on Gall's album 'Babacar' (1987).
Magma
Magma perform in Antibes, France on October 19, 1976
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Feb 27, 2021 0:27:50 GMT
'Temps Libre' : Electric Circuit Breaker
'Celui Que J'aime'
'Chanson Indienne'
'La Quatrieme Chose'
'Aime La'
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Jul 24, 2021 20:59:28 GMT
🎷 Jazz-A-Go-Go : Aventures Dans Le Rhthme Et Le Temps 🎺
Music publisher Denis Bourgeois asked Serge Gainsbourg to write some songs for teenager France Gall in 1964. Bourgeois also brought in jazz musician and musical arranger Alain Gorageur to support the young multi-instrumentalist. Gorageur was a gifted composer in his own right. Gall's self-titled debut album, 'France Gall' (1964), included Gainsbourg originals like 'N'Ecoute Pas Les Idoles', as well as her rendition of 'Les Rubans Et La Fleur', a song written by her father Robert Gall with composer Andre Popp. This is significant as Popp's groundbeaking album, 'Delirium in Hi-Fi' (1957, by Elsa Popping And Her Pixieland Band), was one of the first musical texts that laid the groundwork for psychedelic pop.
'France Gall embodied the emancipation of French girls in the post-war era.'
- Le Figaro
France Gall in Paris in 1965
'Les Rubans Et La Fleur'
France Gall split from Serge Gainsbourg in 1967 as she sought to pave her own way in the music business. This was seen as a bold move at the time, and one that showed she had a wise head on young shoulders. Their last work together turned out to be one of the key albums of the psychedelic era, '1968' (1968). This recording brought Gall's run of albums released by Philips Records to an end. Philips was a Dutch music label created in 1950 (as Phonografische Industrie N.V.) that specialised in releasing classical music (Philips Records was a subsidiary of Philips Electronics). After a brief falling out, Gall and Gainsbourg worked together again in 1972.
"1968 is an expected post-Sgt. Peppers hip swing into candy psychedelia, featuring flutes, strings, sitars, and more rhythmic shiftiness. The previous odd touches of banjo and plucked guitar and of course that echoy voice remain. Among a bushel of quirk, Gainsbourg’s “Teenie Weenie Boppie” is especially ginchy, balanced by Gall pulling out a more tough staccato vocal interpretation; and “Avant La Bagarre” shows she still pops with the most day-glo of ‘em."
- Eric Davidson, Rock & Roll Globe
France Gall illustrated for a comic book
'La Rose Des Vents'
Keen to not be typecast within the music industry, France Gall started recording music in other parts of the world, and spent a good deal of time working in Germany. In 1969, she signed a recording deal with an exciting new folk and jazz label, La Compagnie. She recorded the duelling singles 'L'Orage' (French), 'La Lluvia' (Spanish) and 'La Pioggia' (Italian) in her first year there and these singles were then redistributed by different companies in different territories. During this transitional phase in her career, Gall's roots in jazz became ever more apparent.
"I always pick up a France Gall 45 if I see one."
- Alex Ito, The Guardian
France Gall in Hamburg in 1967
'Avant La Bagarre'
La Compagnie was a publishing company and distribution label co-founded by folk musician Hugues Aufray. Singer Jose Bartel was the company's musical director and among their initial signings were Robert Gall and Andre Popp. Back home in France, and with the support of her family, Gall regained her footing in the industry as one of the era's premiere recording artists, though sales of her more experimental records could be underwhelming. La Compagnie went bankrupt within just three years of its creation, with Aufray laying blame at the feet of record producer Norbert Saada, but not before they'd released a ton of great records.
"I would never dare say that I'm an artist."
- France Gall
France Gall models for painter Francois Gall in 1967
'I Never Looked So Good' - Andre Popp (from the album 'Tzeinerlin', released on La Compagnie in 1969)
France Gall's Music Labels : 1969
* CGD [Compagnia Generale Del Disco] (Italy) * Disques Vogue (France)
* La Compagnie (France)
* Movieplay (Portugal / Spain)
* Tizoc (Mexico)
France Gall in Paris in 1969
'Donne Moi Ma Chance, Je Ne Boirai Plus (Give Peace A Chance)' - La Compagnie [Vocals ~ Aldo Frank, Boris Bergman, Claude Palardy, France Gall, Gilbert Nencioli, Gilles Dreu, Gilles Paquet, José Bartel, Micheline Brunel, Norbert Saada, Philippe Monet, Pierre Chatenier, Roger Roche, Yves Dessca]
'La Compagnie' (1969) is a compilation album from France Gall that was released exclusively to Canada. Gall had been actively promoting the French-Canadian psychedelic scene which had its roots in Quebec. Groups like Les Gamines, Les Intrigantes, Les Mitoufle and Les Scarabees were fixtures in Quebec, while singers like Sylvie-Anne ('Mademoiselle Dynamite'), Myriam Martin ('Mademoiselle Blue Beat') and Ginette Lemieux ('Mademoiselle Caroline') also played the local scene.
"For me, artists are the world's pain receptors. That is why they have such a hard time living."
- France Gall
France Gall in Noirmoutier in 1969
'Java' - Andre Popp
Country music was extremely popular in Quebec, just as it was in rural France. Gall recorded 'La Torpedo Bleue' in 1969 for La Compagnie, a song underpinned by a honky-tonk banjo and a jazz-tinged, modified hoe-down shufflebeat. When Gall performed the song for a local television station in Quebec, she wore a Montreal Expos cap. By the late 1960s, French-Canadians in Quebec, who identified as "Québécois", were pushing forward the "Quiet Revolution" in a quest for autonomy, causing political tensions to run high in Montreal (as they were in Paris and many other major cities around the close of the decade).
"I think we go when it's time to go, that the departures are scheduled."
- France Gall
Rika Zarai, France Gall, Antoine & Sheila become enthroned by the brotherhood of the Order of the Olive Tree in 1969
'Musique Mecanique' - Andre Popp
'Pestilences extinguished, the world becomes smaller, for a long time the lands will be inhabited peacefully. People will travel safely through the sky (over) land and seas: then wars will start up again.'
- Nostradamus ('Les Propheties')
'L'Amour Est Bleu' - Andre Popp
|
|
|
Post by DrKrippen on Jul 25, 2021 19:52:54 GMT
Love her. Great songwriter, great beauty. Love this thread.
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Aug 1, 2021 0:01:22 GMT
🍷 La Ballade De Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan 🍷
I mentioned that singer-songwriter Hugues Aufray was behind the independent music label La Compagnie which France Gall signed to in 1969. Aufray was like a godfather to Gall as he knew her family and had watched her grow up before his eyes. He was seen as the premiere French interpreter of the songs of Bob Dylan whom he'd played with on stage (you can see these old '60s warhorses back on stage together on youtube, performing in Grenoble in 1984).
Renaud & Serge Gainsbourg
'Camarade Bourgeois' - Renaud
France Gall sang in French, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, Japanese, German, English ... one of her friends was musician and songwriter Renaud Sechan who dedicated much of his work to his familial roots, singing traditional songs in the regional Picard language. Renaud frequently ventured into the music of other regions, recording songs incorporating dialects stretching from Marseilles ('La Belle De Mai') to Lille ('Le Tango Du Cachalot'). On albums from 'Renaud Cante El' Nord' (1993) which drew from the linguistics of northern France, to the Celtic celebration 'Molly Malone – Balade Irlandaise' (2009) which invoked the lyrical spirit of his beloved Ireland, his passion for regional dialects and the history of language proved to be insatiable. He even explored Corsican polyphonics on 'Corsic'Armes'.
Coluche & France Gall
Renaud recorded 'Miss Maggie', in which he fantasised about urinating on revered British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in English. One of his biggest hits, 'It Is Not Because You Are', was sung in Franglais. He was part of the theatre troupe at Cafe De La Gare, where songwriter Julien Clerc could often be found. He and France Gall were friends with Coluche and they both worked with Serge Gainsbourg.
"If Johnny Hallyday was for many French this figure of protective big brother, France Gall was certainly their eternal little sister, whose radiant fragility has accompanied generations."
- President Emmanuel Macron
Julien Clerc & France Gall
Renaud - 'Adieu Minette'
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Aug 1, 2021 1:01:08 GMT
Françoise Hardy remembers France Gall on Euroradio ...
"I was really a fan of France Gall, I have all her records!"
- Francoise Hardy, Europe 1
Francoise Hardy & France Gall in 1969
'Qu'Ils Sont Hereux' (written by Eddy Marnay & Andre Popp) - Francoise Hardy
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Aug 20, 2022 23:40:47 GMT
# Eurovision Friendship : Gigliola Cinquetti & France Gall
"Italy is hosting Eurovision for the first time in 31 years after the glam pop band Måneskin won the 2021 edition with a showstopping performance of Zitti e buoni. The band from Rome have enjoyed phenomenal success since, including supporting the Rolling Stones at a concert in the US in November. Måneskin’s victory, along with the fact that Italy is this year’s host, has helped revive the contest in a country that has withdrawn from the event on numerous occasions over the last 66 years, citing lack of interest. In 1974, Rai, the state broadcaster, censored the competition over fears that the title of Italy’s song, Si, sung by Gigliola Cinquetti, who was Italy’s first Eurovision winner in 1964, might have given a nod to the public to vote yes in support of a forthcoming referendum on divorce. Italy last withdrew from the competition in 1997, returning in 2011. Now the country is the most successful among the “big five” automatic qualifiers, along with France, Germany, Spain and the UK, after finishing in the top 10 in eight of the last 10 contests. Mahmood, who came second in 2019, is again competing this year, singing Brividi, a classic Italian ballad, in duet with Blanco. “It’s hard to compare this contest with the last one, although we’re very happy to be representing Italy on home soil,” said Mahmood. “We’re really ready for it, and hope to give it our best so that our music gets better known abroad.” Tonina Torrielli got her big break singing competitively in the Sanremo music festival, which began a few years earlier and was the inspiration behind the Eurovision song contest. Still wildly popular in Italy today, whoever wins Sanremo goes on to sing for the country at Eurovision."
- Angela Giuffrida, The Guardian (article published Saturday 14th May, 2022)
Gigliola Cinquetti (born 20 December 1947, Verona, Veneto, Italy)
"Hardcore Eurovision-sceptics will doubt it, but there was a time when the continent's annual music-fest did actually produce good music. The golden age of Eurovision - like the golden age of football, television sitcoms and most other things which really matter - was the 1970s. The strength of 70s Eurovision was shown by the quality of the songs that didn't win. Italy's Gigliola Cinquetti would have romped home in any other decade with her beautiful ballad Si, but had the bad luck in 1974 to come up against a Swedish outfit called Abba. The 1975 contest was another classic, won by the Dutch group Teach-In, with Ding a Dong, arguably the best winning song of all time."
- Neil Clark, The Guardian (article published Friday 19th May, 2006)
France Gall, Gigliola Cinquetti, Massimo Ranieri, Caterina Caselli, Riccardo Del Turco & Gabriella Farinon at the Sanremo Music Festival in Italy in 1969
'Les Gens Bien Eleves'
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Dec 15, 2022 1:37:57 GMT
🎾 France Gall ¬ Sport & Recreation ⚽
I mentioned previously how France Gall worked with the French Tennis Federation and was a keen tennis player herself. She sometimes played doubles with Michel Berger. Fact is, throughout her life, Gall was a vocal supporter of children from all social strata finding opportunity in sport, both in France and Senegal. She also met kids who played sports abroad.
France Gall on cosmic vibes, musical interplay and LSD ... --- Interview Palais Des Sports (registered 1982-01-07)
There's a famous photograph you can see online of France Gall in a flat cap playing in goal for the French national football team. She understood the beautiful game to be an essential part of French history, though winning never comes easy.
"Allez Les Bleus!"
|
|