All summer, we talk about a great love song every day. Today, the meeting on 45 rpm of the most famous couple of popular music in France.
You don’t have to like denim jackets and seashell necklaces on a tan chest to remember I have a problem. The cover of the 45 rpm belongs to an age of styling which we can have nostalgia for, but it is also a historic success of Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan.
Let’s say it straight away: the song is extremely charming when it comes out, because it tells the story of a couple and is sung by a couple – a real one. Johnny and Sylvie met at the end of 1961, married in 1965, and they are the most prominent couple in French show business.
But, oddly, they never recorded together. They sing the same song in the movie where are you from johnny in 1963, but it did not come out on record, and seeing them sing together on television is exceptional.
In this episode of These songs that make the summeryou hear excerpts from:
Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, I have a problem, 1973
Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, A cocktail for two, 1965
Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, I think he’s driving me crazy 1967
Nanette Workman and Johnny Hallyday, learning to live together, 1972
Stone and Charden, Made in Normandy, 1973
Sheila and Ringo, Gondolas in Venice, 1973
Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, I have a problem, 1973
Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, Veilleicht bist du für mich noch nicht die grosse Liebe, 1974
Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, He troubled me, 1975
Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, I have a problem, 1973
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