Music to lighten the mood - please add your own choices

Very interesting typo :grinning:

I’ll be very happy if he plays a number from his ā€˜River’ album though I don’t know if it’s likely. I’ve wanted to go to the festival since I first heard about it three or four years ago. I have visited Marciac and it’s hard to imagine the transformation that must take place. Sleepy little place.

Don’t know what you’re talking about :joy:

Oh now you’ve done it , that is my most favourite song for the last 25 years, or close to it, not just because the music and the voice is wonderful but once I saw that video with it’s so dark mystery I was captured all over again.

Back in the early part of the century I was driving all over France and beyond in my lorry and many times at night, even way down south I could pick up the BBC World Service on the radio. I had heard this song several times on French radio but never knew the title or the group, mainly because the announcers never named it afterwards. Then, one quiet night I was rolling along and listening to a DJ on WS called Charlie Gillott, and rejoiced because he was a proper DJ, he gave out the names after the music, (what’s the point of not doing that, you don’t want to know before you know you like it?), and I rejoiced because at last I would know the name. Just as the music stopped and Charlie started to speak, I went under a bridge. Nothing :rage:

Finally, years later I was in the builders’ merchants and it was on the radio, but I was called to go to get my trailer loaded so I said to the girl behind the counter, who did not know it, ā€˜whatever you do, get the name of it and the group, I will be back.’ :rofl: So she did, and she told me, at last. :joy:

Then at home I found it on YT. Not the end of the story though, I then learned of the singer and his imprisonment in Lithuania for the murder of his girlfriend, the trial, sentencing and eventual repatriation to serve it in France. And his early release. I can hardly think of any other piece of music that has such significance for me. Thank you. :grinning:

Connections all is connections. The girfriend who died was called Marie Trintignant, and the name struck a chord with me. Long before I lost interest in Formula One racing, I was dedicated to the Grand Prix in the inter war years and just after, and remembered the name of a French driver in the '50s, Maurice Trintignant. I looked it up, he was her grandfather and sadly, as he lived until 2005, he would have known of her demise 2 years earlier.

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Music is best when there are connection.

I also like Sophie Hunger’s version, she is a Swiss singer who sings in multiple languages.

In the same vein is Swept Away, Cult With No Name.

And Careful What You Wish For | Cult With No Name

Yes, a much less upbeat treatment, I enjoyed it while reading the words (I rarely appreciate lyrics in any language), I do prefer Noir Desire though and in fact associate the mysterious video with it so much that at one point I thought that was when I first heard it, but it can’t be, I heard long before I saw. :grinning:

Much more up beat French music, Les NƩgresses vertes. Seen them a few times.

Came across Nouvelle Vague so long ago I forgot about them! Glad I found them again. Must be that sexy little voice!

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Sitting at my computer, this popped into my mind. Brazilian music in the 70s was glorious. I saw Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes on stage in Sao Paulo. And Elis… wonderful singer, so sad.
This is the best of music. No gimmicks, no dancers, just two people loving what they do. :slight_smile:

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Magic.

Was lucky enough to see JoĆ£o Gilberto’s last Carnegie Hall concert back in 2008. This little, aging, whispering man on the stage captivating 2800 people in that iconic venue. I have goosebumps thinking about it.

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Saw them live in concert a few years ago in The Hague…very nice too

Who remembers Connie Francis? She’s 87 now, but her song Pretty Little Baby on the B side of a 1962 single, is trending on TikTok & Spotify - 10 billion views! She recorded it in 7 different languages but it remained somewhat obscure, and she doesn’t remember recording it, but has now opened a TikTok account. A comeback?

Ommaty Orange Blossom.

I do, she was a favourite of mine, but I don’t remember that one. :roll_eyes:

I don’t either, but remember this one.

Here she is today.

Well I remember about 4 of those tracks but the one played I do remember. But did she sing ā€˜told a tale on you mate’ at the end of Lipstick on your Collar? :rofl:

Nope.

ā€˜Cause lipstick on your collar,
Told a tale on you, boy,
Told a tale on you, man,
Told a tale on you, yeah.

Thank you for the translation, I remember mishearing it at the time. :grinning:

Was she ā€œHow Much is that Doggy in the Window?ā€

No, I don’t think so, wasn’t that an English person?