France Gall help needed! (RIP January 2018)

merci!

France Gall is awesome.

Her music always makes me happy.

funny because as a french who was kid in the 70s/80s, I find her mostly horrible.
and even for the 60s part, she must be my least favorite french singer !

She is a terrible singer. I think Anglophones like her for her kitschy charm, but I was brought up in an Anglo-French household so her songs were always being referenced or sung by some family member. When I told people my name was Charles, they'd often start singing "Sacre Charlemagne" for some reason. "Bonsoir John John" was a lullaby in our house, I only recently discovered the song was actually France's tribute to JFK which adds an extra poignancy to it for me.

She's not a great singer at all, but that's part of the charm.

I love the bit in the Gainsbourg biopic where she sings "Baby Pop" acappella and it's suitably shrill and out of tune. They picked some great actors for that film.

I think ILX anglos need to be exposed to latter day France Gall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY6m5VSdohk

i know Babacar very well actually - used to run around singing it with my cousins (maybe playing hide and seek?)

This thread popping up inspired me to put the album I recommended Marco Damiani at the top of the thread on Spotify, and I've just noticed it's got the exact same track twice - track 10 and 12 are both Les Papillons Noirs by Michele Arnaud.

France Gall is so awful she made me hate Michel Berger for a long time which is a shame because the guy had some very good tunes.
message personnel of course :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PK5c6ntpm8
but also :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3UYB9sMQDo

Ha! Michel Berger made me hate him for many years for insisting on writing songs for FG and basically turning her into dross overnight.

ahah. but I think she was already !
but their songs together are definitely horrible...
they're like a poor man's gainsbourg/birkin.

Bonjour! I just wrote a short piece about Gall and my relationship to her music on the new blog Johnny Fever set up last week: http://heystacks.tumblr.com/post/40663195123/france-gall-bonsoir-john-john

RIP

Loved here songs.

Ella, hélas

:-( what a crappy start to 2018 - RIP France

This looks like a good memorial playlist - https://open.spotify.com/user/freaksvillemusic/playlist/1M6sysmAgQ7V5D0XOb0E26

^bookended by the two songs requested in the first post itt!

RIP, Bébé Requin

Chante, danse Baby pop, comme si demain, au petit matin, tu devais mourir.
Repose en paix 😢

Pretty great portrait (in french) from 15 years ago

thanks for that libération link!

also this !!! lol

«Un jour, on a demandé à Gainsbourg s’il avait quelqu’un de moins de 30 ans à statufier et il a dit quelque chose qui m’a bouleversée : ce serait France Gall. Ce serait une immense statue en sucre d’orge et tous les enfants viendraient lui lécher les doigts», s’émouvait France Gall dans un entretien de 1968.

http://next.liberation.fr/culture/2018/01/07/1947-2018-histoires-de-france-gall_1620825

People itt saying she was a bad singer are probably right, but it worked somehow for me. I always thought she did the best version of 'Monopolis' :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJpcyut0tho

her voice is awesome, i don't understand what those ppl are talking about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un1q8oF_Hlg