| Contact avec Françoise Hardy | |
|---|---|
 The debut on 45 rpm (1st French edition) | |
| EP by | |
| Released | June 1962 [1] |
| Recorded | Studio Vogue, Villetaneuse, France |
| Genre | Chanson, Yé-yé |
| Length | 9:12 |
| Label | Disques Vogue |
| Producer | Jacques Wolfsohn |
| "Tous les garçons et les filles" | |
|---|---|
 B-side under paper sleeve
[2] | |
| Single by Françoise Hardy | |
| from the album Françoise Hardy | |
| A-side | "J'suis d'accord" |
| Released | 1962 |
| Genre | French pop |
| Length | 5:05 |
| Label | Disques Vogue |
| Songwriter(s) | Françoise Hardy, Roger Samyn |
| Music video | |
| "Tous les garçons et les filles" (French TV, 1964) on YouTube | |
"Tous les garçons et les filles" (English: "All the Boys and Girls") is a song by French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy, with Roger Samyn credited as co-writer on Hardy's original 1962 yé-yé-era recording. The song recounts the feelings of a young person who has never known love and her envy of the couples that surround her. Hardy's single, released internationally, was a massive hit in France, where it spent 15 non-consecutive weeks at number one (four separate runs) between late October 1962 and mid-April 1963.
Background
Hardy performed the song in a telecast on the evening of Sunday 28 October 1962 in a musical interlude during the results of the 1962 referendum to allow direct election of the president of the French Republic. [3] The record quickly became a success, selling 500,000 copies by the end of the year. In Italy Italian version sold 255,000 while French version sold 140,000 copies. [4]
Françoise Hardy also recorded the song in English ("Find Me a Boy", 1964), Italian ("Quelli della mia età", 1962; collected in Françoise Hardy canta per voi in italiano, 1963), and German ("Peter und Lou", 1963; collected in In Deutschland, 1965.)
Jimmy Page participated in the recording session as a session musician. [5]
The song is quoted several times by the main characters in J.L. Carr's 1988 novel What Hetty Did.
EP track list
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Oh oh chéri" (original title "Uh Oh") | Bobby Lee Trammell, ad. by Jil and Jan. [6] | Bobby Lee Trammell | 2:20 |
| 2. | "Il est parti un jour" | Françoise Hardy | Françoise Hardy – Roger Samyn | 1:47 |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "J’suis d’accord" | Françoise Hardy | Françoise Hardy – Roger Samyn | 2:00 |
| 2. | "Tous les garçons et les filles" | Françoise Hardy | Françoise Hardy – Roger Samyn | 3:05 |
SP track listing
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "J’suis d’accord" | Françoise Hardy | Françoise Hardy – Roger Samyn | 2:00 |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Tous les garçons et les filles" | Françoise Hardy | Françoise Hardy – Roger Samyn | 3:05 |
Cover versions
The song has been covered by many artists in many languages, including:
- Lill-Babs (in Swedish, "Vart Jag Än Går", 1963)
- Sophie Blaede (1962)
- Ginette Reno (1962)
- Catherine Spaak (1962)
- Aimable (on the accordion, 1963)
- Steve Perry (in English, "Find Me a Girl", 1963)
- Eny Mara (in Portuguese, "A Idade Do Amor", 1964)
- Maurice Chevalier (as "Mes Chers Zazas", with new lyrics by Edmond Meunier, 1965)
- Dulce Salles Cunha Braga (1965)
- Mia Frye (in English, "All the Girls and Boys", 1984)
- Eurythmics (bonus track on the album Be Yourself Tonight and, in some countries, B-side of the single "It's Alright - (Baby's Coming Back)"); sung in French by Annie Lennox
- The Paquitas (accompanists of Xuxa) (in Portuguese, "Alguem para amar", 1991)
- Janusz Laskowski (in Polish, "Och jak bardzo cię kocham", album Nigdy nie byłem w Casablance, 1994)
- Laurent Voulzy and Carla Bruni singing with the Enfoirés (album Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra comique, 1995)
- Marie Myriam (1996)
- Gigliola Cinquetti ("Quelli della mia età", 1999)
- Saint Etienne ("Find Me a Boy", album The Misadventures of Saint Etienne, music for the film Les Folies de Margaret (The Misadventures of Margaret), released in Japan in 1999)
- The Dresden Dolls
- Thanh Lan in French and Vietnamese
- Zona Zul (album Beira, 2006) [7]
- Cœur de pirate [8]
- Elastic No-No Band (2007 live recording, released in 2012 compilation Not Like Most Folkies, Part 2: Early Covers)
- Raymond & Maria - released in single Ingen vill veta var du köpt din tröja
- Pomme (Live for Sourdoreille [9] in 2019)
Movie soundtracks
"Tous les garçons et les filles"
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Metroland,
United Kingdom, 1997
- CD, Metroland, Warner Bros. Records, 1998 (UK).
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The Dreamers (Innocents: The Dreamers), France, Italy, United Kingdom, 2003
- CD, The Dreamers, Universal Records (9812084), 2003 (UK)
- The Statement (Crime contre l’humanité), Canada, France, United Kingdom, 2003
- Se devo essere sincera, Italy, 2004
- Attenberg, Greece, 2011
"Find Me a Boy"
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The Misadventures of Margaret, United Kingdom, 1998
- Performed by Françoise Hardy and performed by Saint Etienne [10]
-All These Sleepless Nights-
References
- ^ 45 rpm presented on French television (RTF) on June 5th, 1962, few days before its setting on sale in the record stores [1]
- ^ In the Sixties the singles were not marketed in France. These discs were exclusively intended to the owners of bar and Café having a jukebox and for promotion near the media.
- ^ Françoise Hardy, Le Désespoir des singes… et autres bagatelles, éd. Robert Laffont, Paris, 2008, p. 49.
- ^ Ruscitto, Germano (7 October 1967). "Vogue 20th Anniversary Special". Billboard. p. 48. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 28 February 2023 – via Google Books.
- ^ Christophe Le Pabic, Benoît Pascal, Led Zeppelin and related : hexagonal experiences, p. 60-61, 1997 ISBN 2-9512068-0-1, notice BnF No. 370660648
- ^ Pseudonyms of Gilbert Guenet and Jean Setti, cousins of Jacques Wolfsohn; they wrote some successful songs for Johnny Hallyday.
- ^ Partial source: site officiel de Françoise Hardy Archived 2007-05-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Video on YouTube
- ^ Video on YouTube
- ^ CD, The Misadventures of Saint Etienne, released only in Japan, 1999, it served as the soundtrack
