This week, with the release of a new song, Johnny Hallyday was once again in the news of popular music, as he has been regularly for several generations.
Johnny Hallyday was already there, and he was even Betty Clair’s favorite who sang Scopitone Party, about those famous juke boxes equipped with a television screen, which broadcast the ancestors of music videos in cafes and snack bars . It was in 1964 and Johnny was at the forefront of this news, as he was this week in the song news, with an unreleased track available on the internet (Thursday at 1:40 p.m. sharp).
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend you hear excerpts from:
Betty Clair, Scopitone Party, 1964
Johnny Hallyday, A shout, 2023
Vetty, Johnny (if you come to Saint-Etienne), 1968
Pet, Johnny, Françoise and Sylvie, 1964
Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Weekly song, 1965
Michel Delpech, Johnny in Vegas, 2009
Enrico Macias, And Johnny sings about love, 1995
Serge Lama, The Idol, 2016
Cali, There is a question, 2003
Long Chris and the Daltons, In the court of King Johnny, 1967
Michel Mallory, Johnny don’t let your music kill you, 1975
Johnny Hallyday, A shout, 2023
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