Alright - Again! Favorite 1969 Tunes!

 

I must say... Lydia and Piero here 

have got a headway on the competition! 

Call it... the LP factor! 

 

You can easily see - and hear - why 

they would jump ahead of 

Jane & Serge - for instance! 

Christine Delaroche, however... 

well, we just don't like to take l'ascenseur...! 

(she doesn't either! LOL)

and the jury is still out on Nina Lizell 

(50 years later - yup!) 

Agnès Verocheck... now, she had class! 

But... 

Alexandra... is just boring.

 Sorry Alex! 

Luciana Wolf... awooooo! 

Carola S... we still cannot spell her last name! 

Sophie Daumier... 

now this gal was a ray of sunshine, 

a breath of fresh air... 

and all but forgotten a few years later. 

Sad... 

France Gall 

stood the test of time - until her time was up. 

Rest in peace, France... 

Angélique herself - but not yet... 

Not a blonde yet either; Michèle Mercier 

would sing as a brunette before 

succumbing to imitate 

Caroline Chérie... 

to mixed results.

Léonie... mon amie? 

Typical 60s starlet... 

And a redhead? 

Claude Lombard... 

paved the way for Arielle Dombasle? 

Luciana Wolf - encore! 

Wooooooo-woooooooooo! 

Josiane Rey... 

why doesn't, virtually, anybody remember these?!? 

Another one who sang - before she acted: 

Elsa Martinelli 

Pascale Audret 

actually... was witty! 

She seems to be responding to 

Gainsbourg's crap 

(which was made with the cooperation 

of a woman, on top of that - somehow!) 

Audret sticks it to him: 

she doesn't love him; 

she loves herself! 

 

Mathilde might be into that herself - 

being a self-proclaimed machine/android... 

Self-love makes sense for her. 

Sandie Shaw, for her part, 

met someone in 1969: 

a certain (famous?) 

Monsieur Dupont... 

(rumor has he has a twin...) 

Isabelle de Funès... 

any relation to Louis? 

Ivana... de Espana! 

Pass... 

Lydia - again Lydia! 

Note that she is from the USofA, 

most certainly: with the name MacDonald... 

Okay; could be the IRA... 

Chantal Kelly 

sings ''Fragola''... 

Better that than Dracula 

Jany L 

- she has disappeared mysteriously since, 

apparently (according to the YouTube 

uploader of this video, anyway!) 

Nina Lizell once again - 

bordel. 

Estella... Blain 

sings about a squirrel... 

Victoire Scott 

gave it her best to rival 

Françoise Hardy. 

Annie Girardot - l'actrice... 

She sang too... wow. 

Ivana kept dreaming everything was 

maravilhoso...

Cute. 

Karen - from Mexico. 

Invoking her inner Frida Kahlo there...? 

Fanny 

- not to be confused with Tammy...

Danièle Vidal - 

a girl like all the other girls. 

That might have been the problem. 

Estella must have followed her squirrel 

and she got lost in a field of flowers. 

Which were roses - with thorns.

Anne-Marie Coffinet 

got it worse though: 

she faced off with a vampire! 

With a name like that...

it was pre-destined. 

Or a bad marketing idea. 

Pénélope probably lost some sleep over it - 

she had bags under her eyes... 

And then she sang about those. 

Isabelle should have had her nose checked: 

she laments here about the odor emitting from... 

snow! Uncle Louis did warn her (or another niece) 

about going easy on the nose...

France Arnell 

-visibly a Marie Laforêt clone- 

defines what love is... for her! 

(A battlefield? Not yet... 

What you want it to be? 

Wait 'til the eighties...!) 

Anna Identici 

Wait... another Anna?!? 

Nicoletta wants... liberty!

Freedom? 

Like William Wallace? 

Britt Kersten 

And her 60s fashion pride! 

Angela Bi. 

Yes... her last name is Bi. 

Vicenza. 

... looks like she could be bi, too! 

Christine - te revoilà! Where were you...? 

Alas, despite her feminine allure and demeanor, 

her Jean Seberg haircut makes her look just as 

bi... or outright from the other side of the fence... 

as the previous two songstresses! 

And this is not her best song either...

... so let's fall back on France Gall

Szabo - sang about her favorite green hill...

before she went over it. 

Oh no - not Isabelle again!!! 

Piera - complaining that it was different, before...?

Guess what: it was different afterwards, too... 

Maria Brockeroff 

Yeah - too easy: we broke her off. 

Off the charts - off the record - out of our lives.

Patricia Paulin. 

Pas Pauline. 

And not a huge success either. 

Arlette Zola 

and her little bird (pictured!) 

Grand-daughter of Émile...? Pas vrai! 

Jany L again - inviting us to hell! 

Or a Chinese restaurant, actually - same deal! 

No thanks, Jany! 

Ahh - there she is: 

the one, the only... Marie Laforêt! 

Cristina Hansen 

- heck, she looks like Emma Peel there! 

Dani - Darling Dollar Dani, here! 

She sings it - wants you to bring it! 

I remember her for being Claudine's lover in the 70s 

far better than for any singing she might have done! 

Marie-Hélène Breillat - where are you? 

France returns - 

avec les 4 éléments! 

Elementary, my dear Gall... 

Cristina returns, too... 

Shouldn't have bothered. 

Mia - crying about the bambini...!

Estella strikes back: 

they may have called the wind Mariah, 

but she is riding the wind, so...

Leslie Hart - is far from the city! 

What a prophetic tune this is; 

in these times of contagion and social distancing, 

to have even thought of this, fifty years ago... 

WOW. Bravo, Leslie - bravissiomo! 

Marie-Blanche Vergne 

-visibly a Dalida clone- 

wants only one thing: to eat her waffles. 

(She went from sexy in '69 to chubby in the '70s 

presumably...!) 

Ann Sorel, tragically... was hurting. Bad. 

1969 wasn't all (sexy) fun and (sexy) games 

for everybody involved - you know! 

Nicole Rieu, 

inspired by The Fifth Dimension, 

kept hoping for the sun to shine again... 

(André's... MOM - is it?!?)

Estella Blain - again! 

This time it's an ode to... Dona Inès? 

Sandie Shaw... will be heard! 

She wants us to listen to her voice, anyway... 

Is it a roar? I cannot tell... 

Forgot to play the video! 

Mea Culpa...

Ahh... HA! There's a guy! 

Frédéric BLACK Botton...

Scourge of the open airwaves? 

Delphine Desyeux - 

she most certainly did prefigure the Eye of the Tiger here; 

just look at those eyes there! And she roars it too: 

"Je suis la tigresse" 

"I am the Tigress!" 

... to which France, unimpressed, seems to retort 

"Baci, Baci, Baci" 

...? 

While Estella becomes... downright delusional; 

she thinks we are dancing for her? 

Basta, Blain - Basta!

However, Marie says... "Viens"

And to think that Isabelle Aubret 

appears to be living... sans amour

Maria is back 

(it is the same Maria - rrright?) 

Julie Andrews inspired her; 

she sings of some melody now...? 

(The Sound of Music was titled "La Mélodie du Bonheur'' 

in those parts, you know...)

Marie-Blanche, for her part, is still hoping 

he'll return... Hmm, who? Freud? 

Gabriella Farinon 

- looking good there, like a winner; 

she doesn't have those problems! 

Not to be confused with Catherine Deneuve!

Not to be confused with Brasil's Gabriela 

either - she was still a good 5 years away... 

And muito morena - nothing blond about her...! 

But that is another story...!

Katty Line 

- thinks of him. 

Wees & The Airedales 

want to lend an ear... 

(if not other body parts as well - 

how else can they achieve orgasmo?!? 

Okay - let's not go there!)

Hey - good ol' Ennio now! 

Why not some instrumental piece... indeed!

From the movie ''Queimada'' 

Sévérine - 

asks her mama what's going on...

Marie-Blanche's other obsession, after the awful waffles: 

parasols... *Sigh* I swear, she was the poster child 

for OCD before OCD was even ''in''...! 

... another go at orgasmo, anyone? 

Lydia & Piero just couldn't stop... 

It's an LP thing... 

And again - and again - and again!

More Morricone, too! 

He was still a couple of years from his finest notes - 

which he hit for the execrable Bluebeard, of all people! 

Jean Ferrat (a John; not a gal) wrote this 

for Isabelle Aubret; before she resigned herself 

to live without love, she had come to the conclusion 

that loving was... ''un malheur''

We'll throw in Chantal Goya as well...

Christine Delaroche's tune from '67 

was still playing a lot, on the radio, also...

Maria... 

closed the curtains here. 

...with all these choices to pick from, 

one can understand that 

there is no decision, 

in the end! 

...unless...