WFMU's Record & CD Fair returns October 23, 24 and 25, 2009, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street. This year Bedazzled.tv and Scopitones.com will present our 5th annual WFMU Record Fair A/V presentation: "The Bedazzled Video Hour (and...
Scopitones.com is blowing out stock on sets of all of their 10 original French Scopitone Volumes. All 10 Volumes for $10 apiece + shipping. If you want any particular titles, but not all 10 just email scopitones@gmail.com and tell them...
Many have sung about St Tropez, from Petula Clark to Henri Salvador. Vanessa Chassaigne is adding her two cents, in the form of a great retro tune. You almost want to put on an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini when you hear it. I posted about V. before when she was performing as Louka ( here ), but she dropped that moniker. On her Myspace are more songs, and she's performing quite a...
Sky wrote an addendum to this post: Before Sacha Distel went to Planet Cheese, he was a highly versatile jazz guitar man. His teacher had been Henri Salvador who used to play with Django Reinhardt, Boris Vian, and Sacha’s uncle Ray Ventura. During the Fifties, Sacha became a household name in the Tabou in the Rue Dauphine and other clubs of the St. Germain de Près jazz scene, and from...
Today's Queen's Day in Holland, and if you're in Amsterdam I urge you to go here . If you cannot make it, you have another chance tomorrow. Two songs for this special day, by Coralie and Françoise + Henri. Coralie Clement - La reine des pommes Françoise Hardy & Henri Salvador - Le fou de la reine
I’d heard the name Keren Ann before but hadn’t stopped to listen. Now that I have I can’t seem to get enough of her. She composed the second song, Jardin d’hiver especially for Henri Salvador, which of course became a big hit. My only complaint is that I didn’t discover her sooner.
Tiny Young & Henri Salvador "Un Seul Garcon Sur La Terre" Scopitone.mov "Un Seul Garcon Sur La Terre" Scopitone.mov.m4v Available on Yé-Yé Girl Scopitones Volume 2 What's A Scopitone? Watch Scopitones Scopitones On DVD
With thanks to Dear Reader Shelley, here's a 1969 French cover version of the Muppets' famed song: "Mais non, mais non", as written and sung by Henri Salvador . Read the comments on this post...
“Nobody had every done anything like this before” –Bebe Barron (1925 – 2008) on Anais Nin January 22 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979) February 13 - Henri Salvador, French singer (b. 1917) February 18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1922) February 18 - Teo Macero, American record producer February 21 - Joe Gibbs, Jamaican [...]
Ennio de Concini is dead Ennio De Concini (1923 - 2008) was a prolific Italian screenwriter and film director, winning the Academy Award in 1962 for his screenplay for Divorce, Italian Style. He achieved cult notoriety with Europa di notte (1959) and Bava’s Black Sunday (1960). La Maschera del demonio / Black Sunday [...]