Combination of two albums: the French sung 12 track album Françoise Hardy, 1962, and the Italian sung 10 track album Françoise Hardy, 1963.
Both original albums are orchestrated and conducted by different personnel. They are different recordings and arrangements.
Françoise Hardy’s dreamy, languid, melancholy, angelic, elegant and seductive 1962 debut album featured the winsome ‘Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles’ (All the Boys and Girls), a hit single all across Europe that sold more than two million copies.
Françoise was just eighteen when she recorded this remarkable collection of (mostly) original songs. The public were captivated by her charm, responding in part to some of the same qualities they had found in the emerging bossa nova; a singular, understated voice, intensity, intelligence, the simplicity and sophistication of the songs.
Here, the original classic album is augmented by Italian versions of these and other songs recorded under the auspices of Ezio Leoni.
In 1963 Hardy was invited to represent Monaco at the Eurovision Song Contest where she performed her own composition, the lovely L’amour S’en va. She came sixth. (Nana Mouskouri and Monica Zetterlund were among the competition and they didn’t win either). She re-visited the UK singles chart in 1965 when her ‘Dans le Monde Entier’ (All Over the World) reached the Top Twenty.
Françoise has been described as “Liz from Billy Liar made real”, “Garbo meets Greco” and “The Epitome of the Modern Woman”. Bob Dylan dedicated a poem to her (At the Seine’s Edge).
“I was for a very long time passionately in love with her, as I’m sure she’s guessed. Every male in the world, and a number of females also were, and we all still are” David Bowie
“She was the ultimate pin-up of most hip, Chelsea, beat bedroom walls, and I know for a fact, many of the groups who were notorious and slowly becoming successful, such as the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones and Mick Jagger, the Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and many other groups were all desperately interested in having Françoise Hardy become their girlfriend in some way.” Malcolm McLaren
Françoise Hardy
1 Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles (All The Boys And Girls)
3:09
2 Ça A Raté
2:00
3 La Fille Avec Toi
2:38
4 Oh Oh Chéri
2:21
5 Le Temps De L'Amour
2:26
6 Il Est Tout Pour Moi
1:57
7 On Se Plaît
2:08
8 Ton Meilleur Ami
2:09
9 J'Ai Jeté Mon Cœur
2:32
10 Il Est Parti Un Jour
1:46
11 J'Suis D'Accord
2:03
12 C'Est A L'Amour Auquel Je Pense
3:14
Françoise Hardy Canta Per Voi In Italiano
13 L'Eta Dell'Amore (Le Temps De L'Amour)
2:44
14 Il Tuo Migliore Amico (Ton Meilleur Ami)
2:12
15 E All'Amore Che Penso (C'Est A L'Amour Auquel Je Pense)
2:33
16 Una Ragazza Come Le Altre (Comme Tant D'Autres)
2:28
17 Quelli Della Mia Eta (Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles)
3:12
18 L'Amore Va (L'Amour S'En Va)
2:39
19 Ci Sto (J'Suis D'Accord)
2:03
20 Per Tanto Tempo (Bien Longtemps)
2:00
21 Oh Oh Cheri
2:27
22 Io Vorrei (Capirti) (Saurai-Je)
2:04
