Here is a famous song performed with a delicious accent by the great French singer Jacqueline François.
Jacqueline François (born Jacqueline Guillemautot) was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, in 1922 (she passed away in 2009). She began singing at the end of WWII. She has her first hit in 1948 with C'est le printemps ("Here is spring") and wins the Grand Prix du Disque 1948. That same year she records a song that will become her greatest hit and a world success, Mademoiselle de Paris. She has been performing in French and English for more than four decades and she toured all over the world (she appeared in the Ed Sullivan Show in 1957), being one of the most successful and classy French singers.
Enjoy Jacqueline François' style and voice!
Tenderly
And here is another song by the great Jacqueline, Les lavandières du Portugal (1967).
And La vie mondaine, the French version of The lady is a tramp.
4 comments:
Congratulations for this nice clip well documented; hope it will permit the young generation to discover one of the most talented french singer.
I understand you are - like myself - a great Jacqueline François fan and maybe collector too. If you want you can contact me at michelmacaire@hotmail.com
Hoping to hear from you soon
Best regards
Michel
Simply wonderful!!!
Wonderful! made me cry
Despite the distracting dancers, this is a great video. For a while, elsewhere, there was a print that could be enlarged--to great advantage. This one can't, alas, but it's HERE. I saw her live in the Villa d'Este in Paris in 1955. She was sublime. Always.
Tom
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