Speak Le French?

[Videoskooter]

I don't know about you but Zere are some Disco songs wiZ French girls moaning Zings in Le French that just make me go French!

Do you know oZZer examples?

Aïcha baby help me out! You're French, you must know! Come on you Discolady :icon_exclaim:

OMG, when Zis girl starts moaning....Vidéoooooooh :icon_eek:

Or just French by any girl! (BTW, Patrick Juvet is NOT a girl!)

[Salsoul1975]

Je sais quelques chansons.....

PERFECT LOVE AFFAIR (Constellation Orchestra, 1978) Even though the singers aren't French per se, a female singer moans, "Ooh, mon amour...mon amour!" during the bridge to the final part of the song.

JE T'AIME (MOI NON PLUS) (Donna Summer, 1978) Mademoiselle Donna did her best Jane Birkin on this one, although her singing was almost entirely incomprehensible. Maybe she had a hard time mouthing out "Tu vais, tu vais et tu viens---entre mes reins" (for those who aren't in the know, it basically means she's getting it doggie-style).

Cette chanson n'est pas le "disco", mais.....

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT (GONNA BE ALRIGHT) (Rod Stewart, 1976) Britt Ekland is singing at the end, supposedly French, but what the hell is she saying? (See "Je T'aime" above)

[the disco kid]

the first St. Tropez LP "Je t'aime" (I love Donna, but to me, this is the ultimate disco version of this song) lots of sexy moaning and girl on girl, girl on boy action going on in those grooves through out the LP.

and "Remember" by Gino Soccio has some sexy french vocals as well, ala "We fade To Grey" by Visage

[Videoskooter]

Thx guys, keep 'em cumming!

"My love, come, take me" (That's mainly what Britt is stating there)

[KoolChris]

Lyrics in french... I remember how Americans thought it was so classy to place a french phrase... And how it pissed me off so much. I moved to Paris, France from Los Angeles in 1981, and learned both cultures. Americans thought the French were all dukes & barons, and lived in castles. Each time I'd go back home, people would ask me about this incredibly classy and litterate people (the frogs) I was now living among. I couldn't express how much they were far from the truth. I reluctantly left a country my family is rooted in, where people are so unconscious of their value, and wash every day, for a country where people wash once a week (statistics & nasal verification), and are so arrogant and obnoxious, they deserve to be slapped. Whatever... I still enjoy this foster city (Paris), because the girls are so easy to pick up it's almost frightening... Obviously, compared to my home city, things are easier, by comparison with the Puritans & Catholics back home; but still, nothing compares to the BEAUTIFUL California girls....

But, back to the subject, didn't Tasha Thomas & Billy Idol have tracks with french lyrics?....

[Dansez!]

Lyrics in french... I remember how Americans thought it was so classy to place a french phrase... And how it pissed me off so much. I moved to Paris, France from Los Angeles in 1981, and learned both cultures. Americans thought the French were all dukes & barons, and lived in castles. Each time I'd go back home, people would ask me about this incredibly classy and litterate people (the frogs) I was now living among. I couldn't express how much they were far from the truth. I reluctantly left a country my family is rooted in, where people are so unconscious of their value, and wash every day, for a country where people wash once a week (statistics & nasal verification), and are so arrogant and obnoxious, they deserve to be slapped. Whatever... I still enjoy this foster city (Paris), because the girls are so easy to pick up it's almost frightening... Obviously, compared to my home city, things are easier, by comparison with the Puritans & Catholics back home; but still, nothing compares to the BEAUTIFUL California girls....

But, back to the subject, didn't Tasha Thomas & Billy Idol have tracks with french lyrics?....

Interesting that you use the words "arrogant and obnoxious" to describe French citizens (along with the other "classy" names you use).

This post is offensive, rude and a blatant insult. I'm surprised it was even allowed.

[Videoskooter]

Interesting that you use the words "arrogant and obnoxious" to describe French citizens (along with the other "classy" names you use). This post is offensive, rude and a blatant insult. I'm surprised it was even allowed.

Chris, indeed, it was a little.... The French (and we have great French members here so...) have their good sides and bad sides just like other nations and all of us. I usually get along fine with 'em so let's stop that discussion here and now.

But...to go back on topic, do you know the tracks of Tasha Thomas and Billy Idol?

Thx in advance.

[KoolChris]

Interesting that you use the words "arrogant and obnoxious" to describe French citizens (along with the other "classy" names you use). This post is offensive, rude and a blatant insult. I'm surprised it was even allowed.

OK, I just re-read my post, and can understand that you could take it the wrong way. ...And that it could have been more circumstanciated. It was not a statement on the whole of French society. Much less a universal and God-given truth. Just my point of view, as an American immigrant kid in Paris, in the '80s. Things have quite changed, thankfully. But if you'd dealt with taxi drivers or Café waiters at the time here, as a foreigner, especially with a thick American accent, you'd definitely know what I mean, and probably deem the term "rude" as appropriate as well...

The post was more a diatribe on how I saw fellow Americans as naïve regarding their perception of the French. French= high class, even now. French expressions were being quoted in the media; on TV, sets were named "plateau"s, and the list goes on.. Meanwhile, in France, a massive campaign was triggered by the government to repel the Anglo-American influence on French culture: radio stations were forced to dedicate at least 50% airplay to french music (or have their license revoked, i.e. shut down), terms that already were commonly used in the french language were officially banned or transformed in the dictionaries ("container" became "conteneur", "walkman" - "baladeur", etc.. etc..), and the use of English (expressions, slogans, or text) in the written media was banned, unless it was accompanied by a translation in french... It was incredible to hear or read how derogative the comments of some politicians and "intellectuals" on Anglo-Saxon culture were, without anyone raising a brow.

Both perceptions were unjustified. The Americans' perception of the French was exaggerately positive, while the French (not all, but many) indulged in what was called "Anti-Americanisme primaire", the rejection of anything and everything American. This was less true among the youngsters, more among middle-aged people, basically those who'd lived through and right after WWII, and the humiliation many felt of having foreign troops to thank for freeing them.
To back my statement of French society percieved as a duke-and-baroness society, see how Americans were shocked to see riots in the projects around Paris and other cities in France in 2005, because many still had that fantasy of French people living in the Renaissance era.

Anyway, my post was what I assumed an innocent statement of what I felt, being in the middle of both sides at once, and feeling the injustice of both perceptions. I had very strong feelings about this when younger, less now. Not only because I've changed, but also because things have changed here. Dansez, I'm sorry if my post seemed "offensive, rude, and a blatant insult". I admit it was quite blunt. But let's just say what you felt was a sample of what I've felt many times as an American in Paris...

Anyway, I could go on and on, but this forum is not the place, and this is is definitely not the present topic. I'll just end by saying there's many traits in American society and culture I'm not too fond of, and that I don't have such a beef against the French as it might have seemed, or I wouldn't still be living (and enjoying myself) in France...As some say, "love 'em or leave 'em"; so I guess the good sides supersede the bad sides, or I'd be gone by now!...

(Happy face everybody!!!)

Now, to at last get back to the topic here, I looked up the tracks I was referring to in my previous (unfortunate) post:

Billy Idol: "Eyes without a face" (les yeux sans visage chorus...)
Cristina: "La poupée qui fait non" (obviously)
Tasha Thomas: "Midnight Rendezvous" intro, with hilarious lyrics ("je vous aime très beaucoup" "quand est-ce que je peux le faire avec vous", which sound like someone used one of those online translators to find such a litteral translation!!

[Videoskooter]

Chris, thank you for your reply and your explication. And great to see that you understand that your original post about the French people in general was offensive. Maybe here in Belgium, the Flemish and the Walloons can learn something from you: talking about a problem can solve many disputes and problems

I think we can close this little "faux pas" (incident) now and continue with the thread.

And thank you for the additional "Semi-French" tracks. I never noticed that there was some French in Billy Idol's song!!!

[Nano]

And if you listen closely to The Clash' "Should I stay or should I go" you'll hear some Spanish!!! :icon_eek:

With French, you have also "Lady Marmalade" if that can be considered disco.

[discolady75]

Listen to my last 50mn mix "Le French Disco" : Discoqueer Dieu Merci c'est Vendredi ! Le French Disco Mix

100% French singing 77-79 songs as cheesy as wonderful
vive la France vive la République !

[discolady75]

Disco with French
- Hurricane Fifi "do you want me mon cheri" or "mademoiselle s'il vous plait"
- Kellee Patterson sings "donnez moi l'amour' ! in one of her songs
- Dexter Wansell's female singer talks about Maxim's in "my favourite disco"
- Grace Jones "Strange ( i ve seen that face before) "La porte a claqué ! Joel est parti..."
- Constellation Orc "mon chéri mon trésor" moment is famous and beautiful.
- Quebecian Chatelaine "corps à corps" perfectly mixes french as english
- Any Karen Cheryl ( i love american men.. )

about the French critics...
well, i can agree with koolcris.

it s true that French mentality keep stuck to its colonialist view. if you are a foreigner, make the effort. Kindless and politeness are not the standard, even in an hypocrit way. they dont say what they think too. but Arrogance is everywhere as "elitism". Some likes to create hidden codes to include some and exclude others.

But... you cant miss.. the French food, wines, art, architecture, cultures mix..., and disco !!
Paris is so romantic, shame on me i dont do so much ballads with my partner. Riding your bicycle on Le Marais, Place des Vosges, along the river Seine... well it s a privilege i sometime forget.

Stupid people are everywhere.. the best is to be someone nice, and you ll attract only nice ones, and i do think it works.

[Videoskooter]

Merci mon amour for le update!

This is another good all French Disco CD:

Let's Go Disco Vol. 4 Various Artists (CD) DiscoMusic.com

BTW; I like ze French mix of yours very beaucoup! Brings back a LOT of memories :-)

[SandraDee]

Merci mon amour for le update!

This is another good all French Disco CD:

Let's Go Disco Vol. 4 Various Artists (CD) DiscoMusic.com

BTW; I like ze French mix of yours very beaucoup! Brings back a LOT of memories :-)

Is there really a French artist called Dave?:icon_eek::icon_mrgreen:

[Videoskooter]

Come on guyZ/girlZ! Nobody thought of Zis 1:

Nite School: "Do You Speak French (Parlez-vous Français?)

Nite School Do You Speak French? (12") DiscoMusic.com

Is there really a French artist called Dave?:icon_eek::icon_mrgreen:

Yep, but he's from Dutch origin:

[darrens]

Oops - just added a post linking to the Nite School 12 inch single I added to the vinyl vault some time ago, not noticing that this thread had two pages!

[kdavid13]

Others that would qualify :

CHIC's "Est-ce que c'est Chic"
POUSSEZ uttering the phrase "Where'd you learn to funk like that ? C'est bon" on "Come on and do it"
PATSY GALLANT going bilingual on the 1978 disco stomper "Oh Michel" [also available in french as "Michel"].

DONNA SUMMER singing "Dieu vous appelle" on her 1983 album track "People People".

[JussiK]

Ever since God Created A Woman in 1956 in the form of Brigitte Bardot, pouting nymphettes have been an integral and marketable part of French culture. We must get every disco record featuring a young lady who looks like 16 but acts like 22 (or how was it that Serge so well put it in his classic, definitive ode to barely legal French naughtiness, "Sea Sex And Sun") and hear her protest, purr and lick her sweet little fingers. In French of course, "non" means "yes". One of the best of the lot actually comes from Italy - check out showgirl Rosa Fumetto. She was huge on their tv, disrobed with abandon at the Crazy Horse cabaret in Paris, starred in low rent holiday comedies like "Italian Boys" as well as in arthouse faves like "Moon in the Gutter" by Beinex, and recorded a brilliant disco 12" called Crazy Chat. This is the real thing, and the fact that Rosa is Italian only adds to the faux-everything feel elementary to the best eurodisco. She sounds like she entered the recording booth crawling on her knees and approached the mike like a she-cat in heat, clawing the carpeting, hissing, throwing her hair around and ready to pounce on anything in trousers. Maybe she did forget to shave her armpits? Never mind, Rosa is really hot and so is the vinyl.

[Marcio**]

My favorite song in English and French is ''Sunday Girl'' by Blondie :icon_razz:.
It isn't disco :icon_redface:.
It's new wave :icon_eek:.

[Nano]

and Blondie did some rapping in French in "Rapture"

[canadiantire]

Wow!


I haven't realized that there were so many French Disco performers.

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On my side, I dug way way down my pile and found this one:

Identify this!

I don't think it has been posted yet.

Are there any connoisseurs in here that could give it a title?

My clue is: 1977

Hurry up before the girl voice's fade away (she sounds so weak)...


- Marcus

[kdavid13]

Wow!


I haven't realized that there were so many French Disco performers.

_______________________________________________

On my side, I dug way way down my pile and found this one:

Identify this!

I don't think it has been posted yet.

Are there any connoisseurs in here that could give it a title?

My clue is: 1977

Hurry up before the girl voice's fade away (she sounds so weak)...


- Marcus

Well it is ANNE-MARIE's LOVE IS AMOUR IN FRRRRRRRRENCH ; A classic Quebecois disco hit if ever there was one !!

[canadiantire]

Well it is ANNE-MARIE's LOVE IS AMOUR IN FRRRRRRRRENCH ; A classic Quebecois disco hit if ever there was one !!

Bingo!

Let's say you had an advantage over the rest of the world but still, this was a tough one.

KDavid13, you know your stuff!


- Marcus

[KoolChris]

Listen to my last 50mn mix "Le French Disco" : Discoqueer Dieu Merci c'est Vendredi ! Le French Disco Mix

100% French singing 77-79 songs as cheesy as wonderful
vive la France vive la République !

Some nice tracks indeed! Can someone ID some tracks for me?
-the 2nd track in the mix? (right
before Martin Circus: "J'en perds mes baskets"...)

-the track between Dalida: "L'Americana" & Alain Chamfort: "Manureva". It sounds like the title could be "Basket Star".

-the track right after Alain Chamfort: "Manureva"?

Thanks in advance

[canadiantire]

One more time!

Made in early 80's, this Frenglish song is made by a French speaking team (but anyone can unmask the "imposteur" just by their strong accent).

A bit of pronunciation exercises would have been a must before recording this song.

Link Here

Let's see if anyone can guess the title/group...

BTW, NO it is not a local song.


- Marcus