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My 3 1/2 month old grandson's favourite song is "Soleil", recorded by Françoise Hardy in 1970. He likes other songs, but when that one plays he's instantly quiet and enraptured.
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My 3 1/2 month old grandson's favourite song is "Soleil", recorded by Françoise Hardy in 1970. He likes other songs, but when that one plays he's instantly quiet and enraptured.
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My 3 1/2 month old grandson's favourite song is "Soleil", recorded by Françoise Hardy in 1970. He likes other songs, but when that one plays he's instantly quiet and enraptured.
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My 3 1/2 month old grandson's favourite song is "Soleil", recorded by Françoise Hardy in 1970. He likes other songs, but when that one plays he's instantly quiet and enraptured.
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My 3 1/2 month old grandson's favourite song is "Soleil", recorded by Françoise Hardy in 1970. He likes other songs, but when that one plays he's instantly quiet and enraptured.
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French Yé-yé night at THE BERLIN cocktail bar Troy, NY next Saturday.
For all you mod-stompers, dancers & dreamers.
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#francoisehardy #francegall #spinnoir #yeye #french #vinyl -
https://www.europesays.com/fr/536533/ Jean-Max Rivière, parolier de Brigitte Bardot, Juliette Gréco ou France Gall, est mort #Actualité #BrigitteBardot #CharenteMaritime #Dalida #Décès #Divertissement #Entertainment #FR #France #FranceGall #FrançoiseHardy #JulietteGréco #MichelDelpech #Nécrologie #NouvelleAquitaine #people #PoitouCharentes #Société #SylvieVartan
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Self-Titled Summer | Françoise Hardy (1971, France)
Our next spotlight on a Fedi-recommended self-titled album is on number 119 on The List, submitted by arratoon. By the time this album came out, Hardy was firmly ensconced as a key figure in France’s yé-yé phenomenon and as an international star, with nearly half of her 14 albums in other languages. Though Hardy had already begun to move away from the whole yé-yé sound and image, this s/t departs further, with most of the bossa nova-tinged music composed by the Brazilian guitarist known as Tuca. Both women were going through it at the time, and their collaboration created something beautiful and honest out of their pain.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/12/self-titled-summer-francoise-hardy-1971-france/Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: https://album.link/ca/i/1490263490
And as a bonus, here's a YouTube link with Tuca's MPB/psychedelic solo album from 1974, Drácula I Love You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMaidh-ltJUHappy listening!
#FrançoiseHardy #Tuca #FrenchPop #BossaNova #BrazilianMusic #1970s #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums
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Self-Titled Summer | Françoise Hardy (1971, France)
Our next spotlight on a Fedi-recommended self-titled album is on number 119 on The List, submitted by arratoon. By the time this album came out, Hardy was firmly ensconced as a key figure in France’s yé-yé phenomenon and as an international star, with nearly half of her 14 albums in other languages. Though Hardy had already begun to move away from the whole yé-yé sound and image, this s/t departs further, with most of the bossa nova-tinged music composed by the Brazilian guitarist known as Tuca. Both women were going through it at the time, and their collaboration created something beautiful and honest out of their pain.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/12/self-titled-summer-francoise-hardy-1971-france/Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: https://album.link/ca/i/1490263490
And as a bonus, here's a YouTube link with Tuca's MPB/psychedelic solo album from 1974, Drácula I Love You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMaidh-ltJUHappy listening!
#FrançoiseHardy #Tuca #FrenchPop #BossaNova #BrazilianMusic #1970s #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums
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Self-Titled Summer | Françoise Hardy (1971, France)
Our next spotlight on a Fedi-recommended self-titled album is on number 119 on The List, submitted by arratoon. By the time this album came out, Hardy was firmly ensconced as a key figure in France’s yé-yé phenomenon and as an international star, with nearly half of her 14 albums in other languages. Though Hardy had already begun to move away from the whole yé-yé sound and image, this s/t departs further, with most of the bossa nova-tinged music composed by the Brazilian guitarist known as Tuca. Both women were going through it at the time, and their collaboration created something beautiful and honest out of their pain.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/12/self-titled-summer-francoise-hardy-1971-france/Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: https://album.link/ca/i/1490263490
And as a bonus, here's a YouTube link with Tuca's MPB/psychedelic solo album from 1974, Drácula I Love You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMaidh-ltJUHappy listening!
#FrançoiseHardy #Tuca #FrenchPop #BossaNova #BrazilianMusic #1970s #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums
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Self-Titled Summer | Françoise Hardy (1971, France)
Our next spotlight on a Fedi-recommended self-titled album is on number 119 on The List, submitted by arratoon. By the time this album came out, Hardy was firmly ensconced as a key figure in France’s yé-yé phenomenon and as an international star, with nearly half of her 14 albums in other languages. Though Hardy had already begun to move away from the whole yé-yé sound and image, this s/t departs further, with most of the bossa nova-tinged music composed by the Brazilian guitarist known as Tuca. Both women were going through it at the time, and their collaboration created something beautiful and honest out of their pain.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/12/self-titled-summer-francoise-hardy-1971-france/Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: https://album.link/ca/i/1490263490
And as a bonus, here's a YouTube link with Tuca's MPB/psychedelic solo album from 1974, Drácula I Love You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMaidh-ltJUHappy listening!
#FrançoiseHardy #Tuca #FrenchPop #BossaNova #BrazilianMusic #1970s #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums
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Self-Titled Summer | Françoise Hardy (1971, France)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 119 on The List, submitted by arratoon. Here’s a quick rundown:
- Point of origin(s): Françoise Hardy (b. 1944) began writing her own songs and playing guitar as a teenager and, in 1961, after a few auditions and both singing and music theory lessons, she was signed to Disques Vogue. After her song “Tous les garçons et les filles” from her first EP (1962) became a hit, Hardy quickly became a popular – if not the – star in France’s new yé-yé phenomenon (the term itself, if I understand correctly, originating from a transliteration of Hardy’s English “yeah! yeah!” lyric in her song “La fille avec toi”, which she had performed on TV). Her debut LP album (s/t but also known by the title of that first hit) was released in 1962 (i.e., when Hardy was only 18), and it sold 2.5 million copies within a few months. Hardy quickly became an international star as well, and released an album in Italian (1963), two in German (’65, ’70), and three albums in English (’66, ’68, ’69) in between her first few French albums. The album we look at here is Hardy’s 11th studio album, left untitled like most of the previous ones (it can also be found under the title La question, after its most popular track). Though Hardy had already begun to move away from the whole yé-yé sound and image, this s/t departs further from her previous work, primarily due to its more sparse and mature sound and difference in how it was developed. Most of the music was composed by a Brazilian musician named Valeniza Zagni da Silva aka Tuca, and then rehearsed with Hardy for a full month before the recording process began. The two women connected deeply both artistically and personally, each at the time dealing with issues in their love life (Hardy’s issues specifically stemming from her relationship with future husband Jacques Dutronc). The pair would essentially use the recording sessions for this album to deal with their emotional situations, collaborating with each other to create something beautiful and honest out of their pain.
- Tasting notes: Not (post-?)yé-yé, French pop mixed with Brazilian saudade/bossa nova, 33 minutes of having your socks charmed off, emotional acoustic guitar therapy, a beautifully supportive relationship between two women
- Standout track: “Viens”, “Chanson d’O”, “Le martien”, “Si mi caballero”
- RIP: Hardy would go on to continue an incredible career as a singer-songwriter, which would include 17 more studio albums (the final being the 2018 Personne d’autre), a couple of which went in some unexpected directions such as the fantastic alt rock Le danger (1996) (my personal favourite). She was also a writer (fiction and non-fiction, including an autobiography in 2008) and an astrologer. Hardy left us just over a year ago, at the age of 80. Tuca would co-make another bossa nova album also in 1971 (Dez Anos Depois by Brazilian Nara Leão) and then one solo album in 1974 (Drácula I Love You), but would sadly die much too young in 1978.
- Websites: Wikipedia
Happy listening!
#1970s #bossaNova #BrazilianMusic #FrançoiseHardy #FrenchPop #music #musicDiscovery #selftitled #Tuca
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Self-Titled Summer | Françoise Hardy (1971, France)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 119 on The List, submitted by arratoon. Here’s a quick rundown:
- Point of origin(s): Françoise Hardy (b. 1944) began writing her own songs and playing guitar as a teenager and, in 1961, after a few auditions and both singing and music theory lessons, she was signed to Disques Vogue. After her song “Tous les garçons et les filles” from her first EP (1962) became a hit, Hardy quickly became a popular – if not the – star in France’s new yé-yé phenomenon (the term itself, if I understand correctly, originating from a transliteration of Hardy’s English “yeah! yeah!” lyric in her song “La fille avec toi”, which she had performed on TV). Her debut LP album (s/t but also known by the title of that first hit) was released in 1962 (i.e., when Hardy was only 18), and it sold 2.5 million copies within a few months. Hardy quickly became an international star as well, and released an album in Italian (1963), two in German (’65, ’70), and three albums in English (’66, ’68, ’69) in between her first few French albums. The album we look at here is Hardy’s 11th studio album, left untitled like most of the previous ones (it can also be found under the title La question, after its most popular track). Though Hardy had already begun to move away from the whole yé-yé sound and image, this s/t departs further from her previous work, primarily due to its more sparse and mature sound and difference in how it was developed. Most of the music was composed by a Brazilian musician named Valeniza Zagni da Silva aka Tuca, and then rehearsed with Hardy for a full month before the recording process began. The two women connected deeply both artistically and personally, each at the time dealing with issues in their love life (Hardy’s issues specifically stemming from her relationship with future husband Jacques Dutronc). The pair would essentially use the recording sessions for this album to deal with their emotional situations, collaborating with each other to create something beautiful and honest out of their pain.
- Tasting notes: Not (post-?)yé-yé, French pop mixed with Brazilian saudade/bossa nova, 33 minutes of having your socks charmed off, emotional acoustic guitar therapy, a beautifully supportive relationship between two women
- Standout track: “Viens”, “Chanson d’O”, “Le martien”, “Si mi caballero”
- RIP: Hardy would go on to continue an incredible career as a singer-songwriter, which would include 17 more studio albums (the final being the 2018 Personne d’autre), a couple of which went in some unexpected directions such as the fantastic alt rock Le danger (1996) (my personal favourite). She was also a writer (fiction and non-fiction, including an autobiography in 2008) and an astrologer. Hardy left us just over a year ago, at the age of 80. Tuca would co-make another bossa nova album also in 1971 (Dez Anos Depois by Brazilian Nara Leão) and then one solo album in 1974 (Drácula I Love You), but would sadly die much too young in 1978.
- Websites: Wikipedia
Happy listening!
#1970s #bossaNova #BrazilianMusic #FrançoiseHardy #FrenchPop #music #musicDiscovery #selftitled #Tuca
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Self-Titled Summer | Françoise Hardy (1971, France)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 119 on The List, submitted by arratoon. Here’s a quick rundown:
- Point of origin(s): Françoise Hardy (b. 1944) began writing her own songs and playing guitar as a teenager and, in 1961, after a few auditions and both singing and music theory lessons, she was signed to Disques Vogue. After her song “Tous les garçons et les filles” from her first EP (1962) became a hit, Hardy quickly became a popular – if not the – star in France’s new yé-yé phenomenon (the term itself, if I understand correctly, originating from a transliteration of Hardy’s English “yeah! yeah!” lyric in her song “La fille avec toi”, which she had performed on TV). Her debut LP album (s/t but also known by the title of that first hit) was released in 1962 (i.e., when Hardy was only 18), and it sold 2.5 million copies within a few months. Hardy quickly became an international star as well, and released an album in Italian (1963), two in German (’65, ’70), and three albums in English (’66, ’68, ’69) in between her first few French albums. The album we look at here is Hardy’s 11th studio album, left untitled like most of the previous ones (it can also be found under the title La question, after its most popular track). Though Hardy had already begun to move away from the whole yé-yé sound and image, this s/t departs further from her previous work, primarily due to its more sparse and mature sound and difference in how it was developed. Most of the music was composed by a Brazilian musician named Valeniza Zagni da Silva aka Tuca, and then rehearsed with Hardy for a full month before the recording process began. The two women connected deeply both artistically and personally, each at the time dealing with issues in their love life (Hardy’s issues specifically stemming from her relationship with future husband Jacques Dutronc). The pair would essentially use the recording sessions for this album to deal with their emotional situations, collaborating with each other to create something beautiful and honest out of their pain.
- Tasting notes: Not (post-?)yé-yé, French pop mixed with Brazilian saudade/bossa nova, 33 minutes of having your socks charmed off, emotional acoustic guitar therapy, a beautifully supportive relationship between two women
- Standout track: “Viens”, “Chanson d’O”, “Le martien”, “Si mi caballero”
- RIP: Hardy would go on to continue an incredible career as a singer-songwriter, which would include 17 more studio albums (the final being the 2018 Personne d’autre), a couple of which went in some unexpected directions such as the fantastic alt rock Le danger (1996) (my personal favourite). She was also a writer (fiction and non-fiction, including an autobiography in 2008) and an astrologer. Hardy left us just over a year ago, at the age of 80. Tuca would co-make another bossa nova album also in 1971 (Dez Anos Depois by Brazilian Nara Leão) and then one solo album in 1974 (Drácula I Love You), but would sadly die much too young in 1978.
- Websites: Wikipedia
Happy listening!
#1970s #bossaNova #BrazilianMusic #FrançoiseHardy #FrenchPop #music #musicDiscovery #selftitled #Tuca
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Self-Titled Summer | Françoise Hardy (1971, France)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 119 on The List, submitted by arratoon. Here’s a quick rundown:
- Point of origin(s): Françoise Hardy (b. 1944) began writing her own songs and playing guitar as a teenager and, in 1961, after a few auditions and both singing and music theory lessons, she was signed to Disques Vogue. After her song “Tous les garçons et les filles” from her first EP (1962) became a hit, Hardy quickly became a popular – if not the – star in France’s new yé-yé phenomenon (the term itself, if I understand correctly, originating from a transliteration of Hardy’s English “yeah! yeah!” lyric in her song “La fille avec toi”, which she had performed on TV). Her debut LP album (s/t but also known by the title of that first hit) was released in 1962 (i.e., when Hardy was only 18), and it sold 2.5 million copies within a few months. Hardy quickly became an international star as well, and released an album in Italian (1963), two in German (’65, ’70), and three albums in English (’66, ’68, ’69) in between her first few French albums. The album we look at here is Hardy’s 11th studio album, left untitled like most of the previous ones (it can also be found under the title La question, after its most popular track). Though Hardy had already begun to move away from the whole yé-yé sound and image, this s/t departs further from her previous work, primarily due to its more sparse and mature sound and difference in how it was developed. Most of the music was composed by a Brazilian musician named Valeniza Zagni da Silva aka Tuca, and then rehearsed with Hardy for a full month before the recording process began. The two women connected deeply both artistically and personally, each at the time dealing with issues in their love life (Hardy’s issues specifically stemming from her relationship with future husband Jacques Dutronc). The pair would essentially use the recording sessions for this album to deal with their emotional situations, collaborating with each other to create something beautiful and honest out of their pain.
- Tasting notes: Not (post-?)yé-yé, French pop mixed with Brazilian saudade/bossa nova, 33 minutes of having your socks charmed off, emotional acoustic guitar therapy, a beautifully supportive relationship between two women
- Standout track: “Viens”, “Chanson d’O”, “Le martien”, “Si mi caballero”
- RIP: Hardy would go on to continue an incredible career as a singer-songwriter, which would include 17 more studio albums (the final being the 2018 Personne d’autre), a couple of which went in some unexpected directions such as the fantastic alt rock Le danger (1996) (my personal favourite). She was also a writer (fiction and non-fiction, including an autobiography in 2008) and an astrologer. Hardy left us just over a year ago, at the age of 80. Tuca would co-make another bossa nova album also in 1971 (Dez Anos Depois by Brazilian Nara Leão) and then one solo album in 1974 (Drácula I Love You), but would sadly die much too young in 1978.
- Websites: Wikipedia
Happy listening!
#1970s #bossaNova #BrazilianMusic #FrançoiseHardy #FrenchPop #music #musicDiscovery #selftitled #Tuca
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Clip réalisé par @panonerpan pour illustrer le morceau « Comment lui dire adieu » de @brumeparole et @marin__marie . Il figure sur la compilation « Hardie, 17 chansons autour de Françoise » sorti sur le label @lasouterraine le 11 juin 2025.
Ce clip, au décor simple et verdoyant, s’inspire du lien subtil que Françoise Hardy entretient avec la Nature. Dans son œuvre, le paysage devient souvent le miroir de ses émotions intérieures.
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New profile picture for my Mastodon account (22/04/2025)!
This is Françoise Hardy, photographed by Angelo Frontoni, 1965.
#NewProfilePic #newprofilepicture #newprofilephoto #francoisehardy #françoisehardy #angelofrontoni #1960s #60s #french #française #retro #vintage #beautiful #sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #followme #françoise #francoise
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SpaceAce Sunday | Jacques Dutronc – Jacques Dutronc (1966, France)
The next album our dearly missed friend submitted to the project is number 1047 on The List.
As mentioned in our spotlight last week on Mission of Burma, I recently started a new listening project of going through entire discographies (well, studio albums) of artists, particularly those other Mastodonians have recommended. After Mission of Burma I went through Roxy Music’s discography, and then, as I was craving a different vibe from either of those two bands and wanted to listen to someone I wasn’t familiar with at all, I decided to start in on Françoise Hardy’s studio albums. All 32 of them. Wowzers. After listening to about 10 albums (and falling in love with Hardy), I started reading the Wikipedia entries on Hardy and each album, and realized that she had been married to Jacques Dutronc, whose self-titled 1966 album just happened to be our next SpaceAce pick. Funny how things go.
So, Jacques Dutronc, husband of Françoise Hardy. I would so have loved if SpaceAce had written this spotlight, I’d have loved to hear what he had to say about this dynamic duo. Like, the two met the year after this album, Dutronc’s first of many, came out, and Hardy was already 8 or 9 albums in. Can you imagine the amount of music flowing through that house?
Anyway, we’ll revisit Hardy in another spotlight as we have her self-titled 1971 album on The List. For now, I hope you’ll give this album a spin because it is fucking fantastic. Like Hardy, Dutronc was an important figure in the yé-yé movement, with this album being in the beat/garage rock genres (I think?), with maybe a touch of mod (think Bob Dylan meets the Beatles, but, you know, in French), plus whatever wonderful nonsense is going on in the second-last track “La compapade”. So nice, I listened to it twice.
Thanks, dear SpaceAce, for leading us towards such a great rabbit hole. I may even figure out what exactly yé-yé is soon.
- Songlink: Jacques Dutronc – Jacques Dutronc
- Note on the album title: Similar to Hardy’s albums, the majority of Dutronc’s albums were released being self-titled, and then came to be known under the title of one of the singles or most popular songs on the album. This one might be titled Et moi, et moi, et moi (as the Songlink has it), Les play boys, or Les Cactus, depending on where you get your albums from.
- Discogs: Jacques Dutronc – Jacques Dutronc
#1001OtherAlbums #1960s #FrançoiseHardy #France #FrenchRock #garageRock #JacquesDutronc #ListenToThis #music #musicDiscovery #Musodon #SpaceAceSunday #YéYé
- Songlink: Jacques Dutronc – Jacques Dutronc
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Beck Basks in Bittersweet Majesty With the LA Phil at Symphonic Hollywood Bowl Show: Concert Review
#Variety #ConcertReviews #News #Reviews #Beck #FrancoiseHardy #HollywoodBowl #LaPhil -
Honteux: Brigitte Macron huée à son arrivée aux obsèques de Françoise Hardy au Père-Lachaise. Faut-il que le couple présidentiel soit contesté par une partie des Français pour se faire conspuer à un enterrement...
#Politique #Macron #Brigitte #Enterrement #Mort #Deces #FrancoiseHardy #Chanson #Culture #Variete
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Een mooie, zonnige ochtend om een #Playlist met liedjes van #FrancoiseHardy op te zetten.
† Françoise Hardy (januari 1944 – juni 2024)
📷 CC BY-SA 3.0 nl Joost Evers / Anefo - Nationaal Archief
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🕯️ RIP Françoise Hardy (1944–2024) 🕯️
#FrançoiseHardy #rip #frenchsinger #chanteuse #vocalist #singer #musichistorycorner #francoisehardy
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"Vous avez raison". Gainsbourg éberlué par la finesse de Françoise Hardy qui lui avait fait son thème astral. La chanteuse de "Tous les garçons et les filles" nous a quitté ce 11 juin à 80 ans. Pour la petite histoire, elle était férue d'astrologie et avait même fait le thème de Macron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYuopoLBHU0
#Politique #FrançoiseHardy #Deces #Macron #Gainsbourg #Musique #Yeye #Astrologie
