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09 Sep 2009, 3:47 am

Barbara : "L'absinthe"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo0Xv6kTmxI&feature=related[/youtube]



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09 Sep 2009, 4:41 am

Roch Voisine : "Hélène"
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09 Sep 2009, 11:15 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUuEyNpSGSk[/youtube]

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09 Sep 2009, 11:22 am

Censored in France after a few concerts.

Lots of people, young and old, took the song seriously at first degree - and not as the exhutoire it was.



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09 Sep 2009, 12:55 pm

This is one of my favourite songs ...
It's some kind of a joke and Les Inconnus play as if they were an emo band in the eighties,
it is at the same time still a nice song, very funny (visually and the lyrics and the way they sing)
and verbally so magnificently complex that it becomes like poetry

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCwPQzst-Sk[/youtube]

another one I like very much, and I've always wondered whether the singer Etienne Daho hasn't got Aspergers

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09 Sep 2009, 1:09 pm

Une chanson de Serge Gainsbourg interprétée par Etienne Daho et Dani, ensemble : "Comme un boomerang"
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10 Sep 2009, 10:29 am

Un Américain à Paris : Joe Dassin, "A toi"
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10 Sep 2009, 8:30 pm

Daniel Guichard : "Le gitan"
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11 Sep 2009, 3:11 am

Juliette et Guillaume Depardieu : "Une lettre oubliée"
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11 Sep 2009, 6:06 am

Pierre Bachelet: "Les Corons"
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Ma famille travaille dans les mines de charbon du Belgique et Pas-de-Calais, avant ils ont émigré vers les États-Unis. Leur nom a été Lefèbvre.



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11 Sep 2009, 7:37 am

Oh hello Zonder, did they change their name when arrived?

A quick one and that will be all for today :)
Michel Polnareff : "Dans la rue"
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VHS tape I think, sorry for the quality :?



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11 Sep 2009, 8:04 am

zena4 wrote:
Oh hello Zonder, did they change their name when arrived?


Oui, zena, americanized by dropping the "b" and reversing the last two letters. One of my nicknames in school was "The French Thermometer".

Great thread, BTW! :D



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11 Sep 2009, 8:12 am

One can't think of everything. I believe lots of people don't think of everything when changing their name, whatever it may be, arriving in a new country :)



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11 Sep 2009, 8:25 am

Not only that, people in the USA can't spell or pronounce much of anything French - c'est la vie . . .



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11 Sep 2009, 8:30 am

... mon chéri :)

Where I live, people have pretty hard times to pronounce my family name as well - which is nevertheless well known and easy to pronounce elsewhere.
... And I have bat times as well to hear it pronounced as they do :?



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11 Sep 2009, 8:41 am

Je empathie. Le nom de mon père était "Ormand" et son jumeau identique "Orville". Elles ont l'air plutôt étrange prononcé avec un accent américain. Parce que leur grand-mère était de la Sarre, le nom de leur père était "Karl Wilhelm Lefever". Confusion.