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Bel

Thank you Belana for your very kind help and assistance.

Kat

Going back to Serge Gainsbourg, I managed to access some websites dedicated to him...

One of them got the lyrics for his songs...

Should be interesting [and challenging] trying to translate some extracts from them...

I'm still ing after having read the lyrics for "Les sucettes a l'anis" [not really, but I didn't remember all of it from when I heard it last time... So it was a rediscovery like...]...



loup

I don't know whether I know that song, I'm really bad with titles
The only one I definately know is Je t'aime-moi non plus, which we used to dance to when we were twelve years old, none of us knowing a single french word then, but that wasn't really necessary

The noises made by Jane Birkin in the background were self-explanatory enough...

I will try to post some extracts from some of the songs tomorrow...

Could be an interesting way of studying French...

Hehe... This project might soon become rather popular with the lurkers...

Well, culture doesn't have to be boring, does it?!...

Talk soon...

A bientot...

loup

Ah Loup - just the person I am looking for. Can you help me and confirm that I am not absolutely mad and that many years ago there was a song about "La Jeune Fille du Pressing" . I can't find it anywhere and I'm so sure it existed I can even sing bits of it. I've searched the web as well as I could, starting with google.fr, but aren't getting anywhere.

Please.

S'il te plaît.

Hi TC...

That does ring a bell somehow... Do you remember who was singing it?!

I will try to search for it anyway... I seem to be lucky with my web searches at the moment...

loup

If I could remember I would probably have found it. And these 60s/70s French singers all sounded the same to me. (sorry)

I am a particular fan of Yves Duteuil - an absolute wizard with words, his songs were full of puns that even I could understand and his articulation is impeccable, his voice totally sexy.

I tried the site where I found Gainsbourg's songs but there was nothing close to "La Jeune Fille Du Pressing"

The only title with "la jeune fille" was "La Jeune Fille Du metro"...

Doesn't mean that the song doesn't exist though as the songs on their site are only those that their authors haven't objected to the publication of their lyrics for personal and educative use etc...

[Quite good news in a way if we post the full lyrics of some of the songs on here as it would not be in breach of any copyright and would be for educative purpose anyway...]

But it's possible to find a song by typing an extract of the lyrics in their search engine...

I'm going to add the link to the site on the HelpDesk page later on...

It's http://www.paroles.net/ and it's free to use [well most of it]...

Have fun surfing it... I know I had...

A bientot...

loup

Hi Belana, Trillian's Child and Loup

I wonder if you know the names of the songs being sung in French tv car adverts.

Thanks

Kat

If it's the same as in the German one - a really catchy tune, sounds like "Should I stay or should I go?"

Have asked around the office and the one I'm thinking of is for the Smart "Roadster". Am working on remembering it.

There is a Citroen ad (for the Berlingot) - or is it a Renault one - with Chris Montez' "The more I see you" - one of the few good songs to come out of the 60s.

Merci beaucoup Trillian's Child for your very kind help and assitance. One was with a couple who where chasing each other (the man had spikey hair) via a car which ended with the man with the spikey hair driving the car away leaving his girlfriend stranded in the fountain.

There is a song sung both in Hercules Poirot (The Links) where a woman sung a French song in a hotel called Le Gold and it is the same song sung in Maigret but by a man with a guitar where Maigret was with his wife in a cafe (outdoor) which is very haunting and very beautiful.

Kat

The hotel was not called le Gold but le Golf.

Kat I like feeding my computer with cheese.

I don't think we have that on German TV but I'll keep a look out.

The song I was thinking of is now playing continually on German radio and is used in the Smart Roadster adverts (don't know if that's what they're called elsewhere)

Search for the lyrics to Ingrid : "Tu m'as promis et je t'ai cru"

(translation: You promised me and I believed you)

The words are very very sad, I sat there reading them at work and the tears started pouring down my cheeks.

Funny they should use that for the ad - it doesn't fit at all.

Had a quick look just now...

I see what you mean... Not exactly a cheerful song...

I can't say I remember it though... But it's because there is no music on that particular site... I will try to run a search on Ingrid... Might find a site on her with her songs being able to be listened to...

Worth a try anyway...

Talk soon... A bientot...

loup

If searching for the tune you'll probably have to go to Kazaa, but you really need a good firewall and virus protection before you do

I will [try there _and_ do what you said]...

But, first, I'm going to have some sleep...

Pas de repos pour moi pendant les Paques...
[No rest for me during Easter]

I worked last night and I'm working again tonight...

A bientot...

loup

Joyeux Paques pourtant
Have a nice easter nevertheless

The Ingrid song is not an old one - sorry if I created that impression. It is very new. Do listen if you can find it - the tune is very catchy.