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Régine opens a club in Heaven

May 04, 2022 - 11:28 AM Régine, singer and French "queen of the night", has passed away on May 1st. She was 92. According to the AFP news agency, Régine opened her first nightclub in Paris’s Latin Quarter in the 1950s and owned up to 22 of them in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Rio de Janeiro... She...

2 best friends get some fresh air in Paris

March 30, 2022 - 12:36 AM We are in 1959, 67 boulevard Lannes, Edith Piaf's last address in Paris (16th arrondissement). Time for a quick walk in the Bois de Boulogne, with Marguerite Monnot, one of Piaf's best friends (and song writer too: "Milord", "Hymne à l'amour"...). Marguerite died 2 years later. Her death deva...

Catherine Sauvage sings very fast

March 19, 2022 - 05:15 PM Catherine Sauvage was Léo Ferré's favourite singer, especially for this song "Paris Canaille", released in 1953 and quite hard to sing... She died on this day (March 19th) in 1998. More on her career on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Sauvage ...

Suzy Delair comes back for one song

March 15, 2022 - 02:42 PM On this day (15th March), our favourite Suzy left us :-(. It was in 2020, she was 102 years old. Delair was an actress, dancer, singer, comedian and star of vaudeville. The video is from a 1966's French TV show. Find out more about her career in this article from the Hollywood Reporter's websi...

Les Compagnons de la Chanson find their voice

March 10, 2022 - 12:40 PM On this day (10th March), in 1924, Fred Mella was born in France. He was the solist of the most famous French vocal group: Les Compagnons de la Chanson. Here he is with the band and... Edith Piaf, singing their greatest hit "Les Trois Cloches", on TV, in May 1956. The guest appearing at the begining...

BB walks on the beach

March 08, 2022 - 01:55 AM This is the video of the song La Madrague, released in 1968, and filmed at Brigitte Bardot's house near St Tropez....

One man refuses to go to war

March 04, 2022 - 04:31 PM "Le Déserteur" (The Deserter) is a famous anti-war song written by the French poet and musician Boris Vian. It was first performed on the day of the decisive French defeat in the First Indochina War on May 7, 1954.Marcel Mouloudji (on the video) sang it on that day in concert, and recorded it...

Meanwhile...

Régine opens a club in Heaven

2 best friends get some fresh air in Paris

Catherine Sauvage sings very fast

Suzy Delair comes back for one song

Les Compagnons de la Chanson find their voice

BB walks on the beach

One man refuses to go to war

Serge makes love (song) to Jane

Charles Trenet goes beyond the sea

Marilyn and Yves get incurably romantic

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