If you are a listener old enough to have experienced the tradition of slows in nightclubs and booms, you know that It’s great is without doubt one of the most extraordinary titles of the genre. Yet not all of the 1969 dancers understood all the lyrics.
Quite honestly, It’s great is a surprise. The song is on the album Summer 68, a very political album on which we find songs that arouse very leftist clamors in the concerts of Léo Ferré – The Anarchists, Like a girl, Summer 68, Madam Misery … And it will be the slow of the summer, a big commercial success, although it was released on 45 laps, but on the B side.
Léo Ferré watches the youth who flock to his concerts, and the youth he sees in the streets, on television, in the families of his friends… A youth whose culture fascinates him and spurs him on. .
In this episode of These crooners who make parties, you hear excerpts from:
Léo Ferré, It’s great, 1969
The Moody Blues, Nights In White Satin, 1967
Léo Ferré, The Pop, 1971
The Op’4, It’s great, 1967
Terez Montcalm, It’s great, 2009
Marcel Kanche, It’s great, 2011
Cali, It’s great, 2018
Léo Ferré, It’s great, 1969
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Remember: during the summer of 2019, La Playlist de Françoise Hardy was a journey through the musical baggage of an author, composer and performer considered to be the arbiter of the elegance of pop in France.
In July and August 2017, we spent Un été en Souchon, during which Alain Souchon guided us on a tasty walk through a lifetime of love for song.