When I praised the guys @ Le Pop, I forgot to mention the wonderful Munich-based messieurs of Panatomic. They've released two Atomic Café-compilations stacked with Ye-Ye and other French pop, and number three is on it's way! If you live in de GAS-countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) you can order the album (cd or vinyl) from their site, otherwise I can recommend Amazon.de. Look at the tracklist of number 3! Mouthwatering. The first two editions had great coverversions (like Je Ne Fais Pas D'Histoires by Sophie, a translation of Tom Jones' It's Not Unusual), oddities (by synthi-wizard J-J Perrey) en big hits like France Gall's Teenie Weenie Boppie. The Atomic Café-club in Munich certainly looks good.
Not too sure about the car on the cover though, for number two they chose a picture of a Citroën SM, now thát's a car I'd really like to own one day. Johan Cruyff drove one too, in the seventies.
From French Cuts 2: a pouting Sylvie Vartan with Ne T'En Vas Pas. Also a coverversion. Do you know the original?
Awesome car. Vintage just looks better than the modern atrocities we have now.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenAin't it the truth
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BeantwoordenVerwijderenThe original is a Herbie Mann instrumental written by his sidemen Tucker and Dorough around 1960. Mel Tormé has recorded a vocal version too in the early sixties, I got it on a 7 inch as the b-side of Right Now (another Herbie Mann original).
BeantwoordenVerwijderenWow! Respect!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThe "unknown car" is also a Citroën, called the "Ami 6". Weird design, but it's now a classic. Great blog!
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