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Contact avec Françoise Hardy
Italic Title:no
Type:ep
Artist:Françoise Hardy
Cover:F. Hardy, 1th EP Vogue 1962.JPG
Caption:The debut on 45 rpm (1st French edition)
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
Cover:F.Hardy, 1th SP, France, side B, 1962.JPG
Caption:B-side under paper sleeve[2]
Type:single
Artist:Françoise Hardy
Album:Françoise Hardy
A-Side:J'suis d'accord
Released:1962
Genre:French pop
Length:5:05
Label:Disques Vogue

"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 the 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.

Charts

Chart (1962–64)! scope="col"
Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[6] 11
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)1
France (IFOP)[7] 1
Italy (Musica e dischi)[8] 2
Netherlands (Single Top 100)4
UK Singles (OCC)[9] 36
West Germany (Media Control)20

Cover versions

The song has been covered by many artists in many languages, including:

Movie soundtracks

"Tous les garçons et les filles"

"Find Me a Boy"

-All These Sleepless Nights-

Notes and References

  1. 45 rpm presented on French television (RTF) on June 5th, 1962, few days before its setting on sale in the record stores http://www.ina.fr/video/I06051237/francoise-hardy-au-petit-conservatoire-video.html
  2. 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.
  3. Françoise Hardy, Le Désespoir des singes… et autres bagatelles, éd. Robert Laffont, Paris, 2008, p. 49.
  4. Vogue 20th Anniversary Special. Billboard. 48. 0006-2510. 7 October 1967. Google Books. Germano. Ruscitto. 28 February 2023.
  5. Christophe Le Pabic, Benoît Pascal, Led Zeppelin and related : hexagonal experiences,, 1997, notice BnF No. 370660648
  6. Web site: Françoise Hardy – Tous les garçons et les filles . hitparade.ch.
  7. http://www.infodisc.fr/Number1_60.php Archives on "InfoDisc" site
  8. Web site: Top Annuali Singoli 1963 . Hit Parade Italia.
  9. Web site: TOUS LES GARCONS ET LES FILLES by FRANCOISE HARDY . Official Charts Company.
  10. Partial source: French: site officiel de Françoise Hardy|nocat=true
  11. CD, The Misadventures of Saint Etienne, released only in Japan, 1999, it served as the soundtrack

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