"A sad song of dreams unfulfilled and a wounded heart: 'It was a lovely summer to remember, tomorrow we will part'". So notes François Cactus of Stereo Total about Vicky Leandros' emo-classic Entre Les Lignes. One of the 16 songs on the recently released compilation Parlez-vous Pop? (on Bureau B records). This comp brings together French songs from the sixties and seventies, sung by non-French singers. Who recorded them for fun, or out of genuine love for the language of love. It features mostly Brit and German artists (Dusty Springfield, Sandi Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, Freddy Quinn, Marlene Dietrich, Roy Black), but Vicky Leandros was ofcourse fromt the Greek Island of Corfu - she won the Eurovision Songcontest in 1972 with the tearjerker Après-toi. In 1967 she became fourth in the Contest with L'Amour Est Bleu, a classic that was covered lots of times, f.i. by Claudine Longet. Parlez-Vous Pop features some great oddities, like a space-age popsong by Catharina Valente, and a cover of The Bananaboat Song, a song about a slave on a plantation who wants to go home to his African village, sung in French by German crooner Freddy Quinn.
Vicky Leandros - Entre Les Lignes
Vicky Leandros - Après toi (not on Parlez-vous Pop?)
Vicky Leandros - L'Amour est Bleu (not on Parlez-vous Pop?)
Mary Roos - L'Autoroute
Freddy Quinn - Day-O
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