Tous les Garçons et les Filles

by Francoise Hardy

Overview

From the Bardot-like cover shot of a windswept and gorgeous Francoise Hardy to the oddly chipper title, this 1965 U.S. debut (originally released on the proto-world music label Four Corners) is clearly pitched at the adventurous edge of the U.S. pop market, pitching Hardy as the Gallic Petula Clark. (Clark was, unbeknownst to the U.S. market at the time, making terrific French-language pop records herself at the time.) Complicating this, of course, is the fact that Hardy's music, for all its catchiness, is stripped down to its barest essentials -- acoustic and electric guitar, bass, minimalist drums, very little else -- and Hardy herself sings her (mostly self-penned) lyrics in an attractive but chilly drop-dead monotone that's far removed from the perkiness of almost every other female singer (minus Nico and Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las) of the '60s. Even the perkier tunes, like the enormous French hit single "Tous les Garcons et les Filles," have a measured, restrained quality. The Yeh-Yeh Girl From Paris is an outstanding record, but it's the '60s pop equivalent of Shaker furniture: free of ornamentation and exquisitely simple. ~ Stewart Mason

Product Details

Release Date:	09/22/2023
Label:	French Connection
UPC:	8436569195819

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Francoise Hardy   Primary Artist,Vocals

Technical Credits

Roger Samyn   Composer
Matt Sullivan   Executive Producer,Producer
Lucien Morisse   Composer
John Baldwin   Remastering
Jean-Marie Perier   Photography
Jil Et Jan   Composer
Lydia Hyslop   Producer,Proof Reading,Project Assistant
Patrick McCarthy   Project Manager
Kieron Tyler   Liner Notes
Jacques Dutronc   Composer
Francoise Hardy   Composer
Josh Wright   Executive Producer
Andre Salvet   Composer
Bobby Lee Trammell   Composer
David Yow   Restoration
Andre Michel Salvet   Composer
Henry H. Owings   Design
Salvet   Composer
Dutronc   Composer