Claude Francois – spot the cover game
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?