Tous Les Garcons Et Les Filles

Between 1962 and 1966, Françoise 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 Françoise Hardy albums in their original French format, on deluxe LP and CD.

Hardy soon captivated the rest of the world–she was immortalized in 1964 in a poem by Bob Dylan, she associated with The Stones, and dined with Beatles Paul McCartney and George Harrison. She also soon gained more creative control over her music, and she now distances herself from these early recordings where this was not the case. “Even if I had been able to say something about the production,” she says now, “maybe I would have been listened to, but I didn’t know anything.”

In the album’s title track, Hardy sang about being a soul in torment, and this is the Hardy that emerged–a complicated, pensive outsider, part pop singer, part chanteuse, and utterly unique.

Tracklisting

1. Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles
2. Ça a Raté
3. La Fille Avec Toi
4. Oh Oh Chéri
5. Il Est Tout Pour Moi
6. J'ai Jeté Mon Coeur
7. Quelli Della Mia Età
8. L'età Dell'amore
9. Oh Oh Chéri
10. Le Temps De L'amour
11. On Se Plaît
12. Ton Meilleur Ami
13. Il Est Parti Un Jour
14. J'suis D'accord
15. C'est À L'amour Auquel Je Pense
16. Ci Sto
17. E' All'amore Che Penso
18. Il Tuo Migliore Amico
19. Una Ragazza Come Le Altre