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Francoise Hardy

Tous Les Garcons Et Les Filles - 2023 Reissue

    Presented here is Francoise Hardy's debut studio album released in France in December 1962 by Disques Vogue.

    Originally issued with no title, except for her name on the cover, the album became colloquially known by the title of its most successful song, Tous les garcons et les filles.

    This sensational album compiles the twelve original French versions from her first three EPs. Hardy would also record ten versions of the songs in Italian, English and German. Four of the Italian versions are included here as bonus tracks.

    This iconic LP combines rockabilly, folk, jazz and blues, and has been noted for its simplicity, featuring a minimalist jazz percussion, bass, acoustic and electric guitar sound palette.

    TRACK LISTING

    Tous Les Garcons Et Les Filles
    Ca A Rate
    La Fille Avec Toi
    Oh Oh Cheri
    Il Est Tout Pour Moi
    J'ai Jete Mon Coeur
    Quelli Della Mia Eta
    L'eta Dell'amore
    Oh Oh Cheri
    Le Temps De L'amour
    On Se Plait
    Ton Meilleur Ami
    Il Est Parti Un Jour
    J'suis D'accord
    C'est A L'amour Auquel Je Pense
    Ci Sto
    E All'amore Che Penso 
    Il Tuo Migliore Amico
    Una Ragazza Come Le Altre

    Francoise Hardy

    Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour

      * Exclusive interview with Françoise Hardy
      * Liner Notes by Kieron Tyler
      * First time available in the US
      * 180-gram vinyl housed in a deluxe Stoughton jacket

      Between 1963 and 1966, Françoise Hardy released one French-language album per year. Each, strictly speaking, was eponymously titled, and each was collected from a series of contemporary four-track, seven-inch, picture-sleeve EPs - pop music’s main format in France, known as le super 45. In them, we see the maturing of one of the decade’s most singular talents - a pop singer with the heart of a chanteuse, a singer-songwriter in an age before such a thing was known, and a style icon who valued privacy and modesty. Remastered from the original tapes, we present the first five Françoise Hardy albums in their original French format, on deluxe LP and CD.

      Like her 1962 debut, the cover of the following year’s 'Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour' had Hardy staring enigmatically at the listener. On the album itself, the sound had changed in line with Hardy’s solidifying vision and voice; where 'Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles' was produced by a series of collaborators who struggled to understand her style, 'Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour' gave fans the most significant insight so far into the identity of Françoise Hardy.

      In 1963, at a time when Serge Gainsbourg was tentatively dipping a toe into pop and the term yé-yé was only just being coined, Hardy was a rare thing: a singer-songwriter with heaps of her own material but not a folk singer in any sense. Hers was pop music that took the weight of chanson on its shoulders. Here, "Comme Tant D’Autres” says, “I know well that life is short, and I’ve been around” - hardly “She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.”

      For the tracks on 'Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour', Hardy was produced by arranger Marcel Hendrix. As well as her own compositions, “L’Amour D’Un Garçon” saw Hardy adapt Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s "The Love Of A Boy.” In a contemporary interview, she said she would not perform songs where there was no sense of the words touching her intimately. “A song - it is your own story, or it is nothing,” she said.

      It was another year before Hardy’s records were issued in Britain and another year before she started to brush up against the likes of Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and The Stones, but life was changing for the 19-year-old.

      Her unique sound would take her far, despite admitting now that she “had no ambition. At the beginning, my ambition was to record something. I thought anything outside France was an impossible dream, but I did what I could to make it come true. It was like a current that carried me.”


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