All summer in “Behind our voices, we meet eight major artists of French song who, at home and their instrument in hand, reveal to us the secrets of their creations. Friday, July 22, Bénabar reveals which songs of his colleagues he finds perfect, and why.
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So we were at Bénabar’s and he was sitting at his piano. We offered him an exercise in admiration – that is to say, we asked him if he knew – in the work of his colleagues – a perfect song.
In this episode of Behind our voices you hear excerpts from:
Benabar, The Rooster and the Pendulum, 2018
Claude Nougaro, The Rooster and the Pendulum, 1980
Maurice Vander Trio, The Rooster and the Pendulum, 1982
Bénabar sings to us She’s from elsewhere, 2021
Alain Souchon, The Beauty of Ava Gardner,1989
Pierre Bachelet, She’s from elsewhere,1980
Benabar, The Rooster and the Pendulum, 2018
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Remember: during the summer of 2019, La Playlist de Françoise Hardy was a crossing of the musical baggage of an author, composer and performer considered as the arbiter of the elegance of pop in France.
In July and August 2017, we spent A Summer in Souchon, during which Alain Souchon guided us on a tasty walk through a lifetime of love for song.