Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour

Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour

* Exclusive interview with FranÃ§oise Hardy * Liner Notes by Kieron Tyler * First time available in the US * 180-gram vinyl housed in a deluxe Stoughton jacket Between 1962 and 1966, FranÃ§oise Hardy released one French-language album per year. Each, strictly speaking, was eponymously titled, and each was collected from a series of contemporary four-track, seven-inch, picture-sleeve EPs pop music s main format in France, known as le super 45. In them, we see the maturing of one of the decade s most singular talents a pop singer with the heart of a chanteuse, a singer-songwriter in an age before such a thing was known, and a style icon who valued privacy and modesty. Remastered from the original tapes, we present the first five FranÃ§oise Hardy albums in their original French format, on deluxe LP and CD. Like her 1962 debut, the cover of the following year s Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour had Hardy staring enigmatically at the listener. On the album itself, the sound had changed in line with Hardy s solidifying vision and voice; where Tous Les GarÃ§ons Et Les Filles was produced by a series of collaborators who struggled to understand her style, Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour gave fans the most significant insight so far into the identity of FranÃ§oise Hardy. In 1963, at a time when Serge Gainsbourg was tentatively dipping a toe into pop and the term yÃ©-yÃ© was only just being coined, Hardy was a rare thing: a singer-songwriter with heaps of her own material but not a folk singer in any sense. Hers was pop music that took the weight of chanson on its shoulders. Here, "Comme Tant D Autres says, I know well that life is short, and I ve been around hardly She loves you, yeah yeah yeah. For the tracks on Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour, Hardy was produced by arranger Marcel Hendrix. As well as her own compositions, "L'Amour D'Un GarÃ§on" saw Hardy adapt Burt Bacharach and Hal David s "The Love Of A Boy. In a contemporary interview, she said she would not perform songs where there was no sense of the words touching her intimately. A song it is your own story, or it is nothing, she said. It was another year before Hardy s records were issued in Britain and another year before she started to brush up against the likes of Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and The Stones, but life was changing for the 19-year-old. Her unique sound would take her far, despite admitting now that she had no ambition. At the beginning, my ambition was to record something. I thought anything outside France was an impossible dream, but I did what I could to make it come true. It was like a current that carried me.
Country USA
Brand AGAINST THE GRAIN.
Manufacturer Future Days Recordin
Binding Vinyl
ItemPartNumber FDRLP 615
Model FDRLP 615
ReleaseDate 2016-01-29
UnitCount 1
UPCs 826853061513
EANs 0826853061513

Country	USA
Brand	AGAINST THE GRAIN.
Manufacturer	Future Days Recordin
Binding	Vinyl
ItemPartNumber	FDRLP 615
Model	FDRLP 615
ReleaseDate	2016-01-29
UnitCount	1
UPCs	826853061513
EANs	0826853061513

Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour

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