"Let's Do It The French Way" Favorite french disco

[djsonic]

Hey Kids!
I'd like to start by saying i think all u guys are GREAT!
love reading your posts.]
now whats your favorite french disco song?

1.Bad Girl (Mala Femmena) by Manhattan express
a tom moulton mix 12"single 1975.
Sounds very romantic and french.
2. Kongas Anikanao 1974
3. i will survive french version, cant recall the artist.regene?
anyway it on the prism label..wonderfull song!
what do you think is good? :D

[Bernie]

Kikrokos - "Jungle DJ"
Martin Circus - "Disco Circus"
Voyage - All cuts
Quartz - "Beyond the Clouds"

bla, bla, bla :-)

[djsonic]

but what tunes were done in french?
i like the french ones alot.

[JussiK]

Some of the titles of the following are in English but all are sung in French:
Jane Manson: Fais-Moi Danser
Line Renaud: copacabana (at the copa)
Claude Francois. Alexandrie Alexandra etc.
Alain Band: Holdup
Serge gainsbourg: Sea sex and Sun
Jane Birkin: Lolita Go Home
Regine: reine de la Nuit
Bernheim: Back to Paris version francaise
Sacha Distel: For Ever and Ever
Dave: Vanina
Max Berlins: Elle et Moi
Patrick Juvet: Ou Sont les Femmes?

[KoolChris]

New Paradise: "The French Way" (with french lyrics by this french group)

Serge Gainsbourg: "69 Année Erotique" & "Requiem pour un Con", although not typically disco, are GREAT tracks, in a style disco-lovers can definitely relate to.

[KoolChris]

Originally Posted by djsonic

I will survive french version, cant recall the artist.regene?
anyway it on the prism label..wonderfull song! :D

Yes, the better-known was by Regine, but various other french singers did their own versions as well.

[Say What?]

Grace Jones 'La Vie En Rose'

[the disco kid]

[QUOTE=JussiK;46161
Patrick Juvet: Ou Sont les Femmes?[/QUOTE]

oooh i LOVE this song!

written and co-produced by Jean-Michelle Jarre, the english version that came out years later on the I LOVE AMERiCA LP doesn't hold a candle to the original FRENCH version.

[Disco Funk]

.Bad Girl (Mala Femmena) by Manhattan express
a tom moulton mix 12"single 1975.
Sounds very romantic and french.
2. Kongas Anikanao 1974

I think Bad Girl is supposed to be spanish. Kongas was a french based group, but the track Anikanao was probably supposed to be African dance funk. Just clarifying those picks of yours.

For myself, I like the Patrick Juvet stuff. If you check out compilations made in Canada, some of them include french songs. My fave is 'Corps a Corps' by Chatelaine. Andre Gagnon, a quebecois, also did some disco instrumentals, like Surprise and Wow. Martin Stevens and Patrick Norman were two other Quebec-based singers who did some tracks in French. Patrick Norman's 'Lets Try Once Again' features the Black Light Orchestra and the female background vocalists sing in french.

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[Disco Funk]

I thought there was another thread about songs in French that was more recent.

Anyway, I just wanted to add the group 'Toulouse', which was based in Quebec, but had the rhythm arrangements recorded in studios like Muscle Shoals. They were three women, kind of a French Canadian Silver Convention. But I find their vocals were much more soulful and less screamy than their German counterparts.

They did at least one album with english lyrics, that used the same backing tracks for a french language LP they recorded earlier, that included this track (this is the french version):



(sorry, I couldn't find a disco music example). They also did a version of Rien A Perdre, but it's not clear if their version came before or after the St Tropez version.

Disco Funk