On Friday, I finished a mix CD I'd been working on for a while. It's a compilation of 60s Pop & French Pop, and it's SO much fun to listen to!!
Here's the cover:
Here's the track listing:
1) Creation - Making Time
2) Francois Hardy - Tous Les Garcons er Les Filles
3) The Dixie Cups - Iko Iko
4) The Flirtations - Nothing But A Heartache
5) Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie & Clyde
6) Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - Some Velvet Morning
7) Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror
8) France Gall - Laisse Tomber Les Filles
9) 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me
10) Sagittarius - My World Fell Down
11) Esquivel - Flower Girl From Bordeaux
12) Nico - These Days
13) Nancy Sinatra - Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
14) Claudine Longet - L'amour Est Bleu (Love Is Blue)
15) P.P. Arnold - The First Cut Is The Deepest
16) Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long
17) Brigitte Bardot - Un Jour Comme un Autre
18) Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
19) Twiggy - Over and Over
20) Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina (My Girl)
21) The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year
"Some Velvet Morning" is just a crazy song! I think I need to find some more Lee Hazelwood-- he has an incredible voice. Sagittarius sounds like all sorts of other bands... one second The Mamas & The Papas, then The Beach Boys, then maybe even The Association! And Os Mutantes is actually a Brazillian band, and that song is just crazy fun. The favourite version of "The First Cut is the Deepest" is, of course, the original by Cat Stevens... but this lady P.P. Arnold just sings the crap out of that song!! It's wonderful!!
I finished the CD just in time to give a copy to my friend who had been having a bad day... She actually knew a lot of the French stuff already!
