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Here's an all-France Gall mix, featuring some of my favourite songs of hers from 1963 to 1972. I say some of because, well, I love pretty much all her stuff from that era - it took some restraint to only choose 38 songs! You'll find some of her absolute classics here, as well as some lesser-known songs that are equally wonderful. After making the mix, I realised I drew a lot from my favourite album of hers, the 1967 psych-pop classic, 1968. I also seem to have included every song where she does her adorable version of scatting, which is really just the best thing ever. As well as her French songs, I've included a few of her German tracks, the Japanese version of 'Un prince charmant' and the Italian version of 'La Quatrième Chose'.

I've already gone into what I love about France Gall's music, so I'm not going to get descriptive here, but just let the music speak for itself. My hope is these selections would make someone new to her music fall in love with it as much as I did. And perhaps there are a few things here that are not so readily familiar to established French pop fans. 

I can't add a tracklist to Mixcloud, unfortunately, because having over a certain number of songs by the same artist results in the mix being blocked in the USA. Should you wish to find out which song is playing when, I've added the start times of each track below (click 'Start Times' to display them). I'm not sure if it may still get blocked, so in case of that – or if you don't use Mixcloud – I've also added a link to play the mix directly from my site (click 'Alternate link' under the player). 

Tracklist (Start times)

  1. Les rubans et la fleur (1964) 0:00
  2. Cet air-là (1966) 02:44
  3. Le Cœur qui jazze (1965) 5:14
  4. Baby Pop (1966) 7:56
  5. Ne dis pas aux copains (1964) 11:16
  6. Laisse tomber les filles (1964) 13:48
  7. Zozoï (1970) 15:55
  8. Y'a du soleil à vendre (1968) 18:44
  9. Faut-il que je t'aime (1966) 20:48
  10. Nefertiti (1967) 22:54
  11. Jazz à gogo (1964) 25:13
  12. Polichinelle (1967) 27:35
  13. Yume ni mita ojisama (1966) 30:00
  14. 5 minutes d'amour (1972) 32:26
  15. Der Computer Nr. 3 (1968) 35:11
  16. J'entends cette musique (1963) 37:53
  17. Attends ou va-t'en (1965) 40:24
  18. Si j'étais garçon (1964) 42:51
  19. Pense à moi (1963) 44:50
  20. Le Temps de la rentrée (1965) 47:23
  21. La Rose des vents (1966) 48:53
  22. Allo Monsieur là-haut (1968) 51:12
  23. Avant la bagarre (1967) 54:03
  24. Chanson pour que tu m'aimes un peu (1967) 56:40
  25. Die schönste Musik, die es gibt (1967) 58:57
  26. Le quatro domande (1972) 1:01:23
  27. Chanson indienne (1967) 1:04:38
  28. Hippie Hippie (1968) 1:07:10
  29. Deux oiseaux (1965) 1:09:49
  30. Made in France (1967) 1:12:06
  31. Au clair de la lune (1964) 1:14:51
  32. Miguel (1972) 1:16:32
  33. N'écoute pas les idoles (1964) 1:18:35
  34. Les Quatres Éléments (1969) 1:22:19
  35. Bébé requin (1967) 1:25:46
  36. Don't Make War Captain, Make Love (1968) 1:28:26
  37. Le Temps du tempo (1968) 1:30:48
  38. Soyons sages (1964) 1:33:22

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Comments (0)

  • C’est La Mode  
    Enjoyed this mix very much! Thank you!
  • Christine  
    You're welcome! Thanks for your comment :)

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