We talk every day about a great love song. Today, Saturday, is slow day, with a worldwide hit from the 60s, “Je t’aime moi non plus” – but the words aren’t the most important thing.
I love you too. Familiar song to all, and for fifty-four years, since it was a crushing tube of the summer of 1969. And, since then, an immense classic of the dance floors – in nightclubs, balls, private parties.
And so, hearing I love you too behind my voice, you say to yourself: but what is he saying, it’s not I love you too by Gainsbourg. You are right. This 45 rpm is called Love At First Sight and it’s signed by Sounds Nice, the group name given to themselves by keyboardist Tim Mycroft and arranger Paul Buckmaster, who called on a few studio musicians to record this cover of I don’t love you either.
In this episode of These songs that make the summeryou hear excerpts from:
Nice Sounds, Love at First Sight, 1969
Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Colombier, Ball scene 1 (BOF Les Coeurs Verts), 1966
Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg, I don’t love you either 1967
Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, I don’t love you either 1969
Serge Gainsbourg, Jean-Pierre Sabar, I don’t love you either (Fine I don’t love you either), 1975
Bourvil and Jacqueline Maillan, That, 1970
Nice Sounds, Love at First Sight, 1969
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