Claude Francois – spot the cover game
December 15th, 2008 6 comments link to (permalink) posted by david
I’m in Paris for a month, because my wife is plotting a move here. Which is a poor excuse to include these two clips of ’so bad its good, actually possibly just good’ French singer, Claude Francois, who supposedly died while changing a light bulb in the bath.
Both these songs have well known English versions: Sinatra’s My Way and the Four Seasons’ Oh What a Night.
The video for Cette Annee La is possibly the nadir of French style. The glamorous dancing girls appear to be wearing builders’ vests and Jockey Y-Fronts.
The quiz question is: which of Francois’ versions is a cover and which is the original?
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6 responses so far »
fogcutter : Dec 15, 2008 at 4:14 pm
“Comme d’habitude” is the original that became “My Way….
admin : Dec 15, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Congratulations!
Dan Westlake : Dec 15, 2008 at 9:04 pm
what do you mean the ‘Nadir’ that is f*cking fantastic!
Westlake
Adam Tod Leverton : Dec 16, 2008 at 3:09 am
Nadir it may be, it’s pretty cool. Chirpy.
admin : Dec 16, 2008 at 10:08 am
Oops – I meant ‘Cette Annee La’ is the nadir (corrected it). Clearly ‘Comme D’habitude’ is in a different category.
Sveinbjorn : Feb 18, 2009 at 10:28 pm
the cette anne la embed is dead.
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