While an international report counts 41% of frogs and toads threatened with extinction, let’s return to the myths of which our popular culture bears traces.
“And the child who passes away from us fades and pale chases us with paving stones”…If you are or have been a scout, you recognize what Alain Souchon sang in 2011: The Toadsa song from the end of the 19th century which, for generations, has only been sung during wakes, in almost all movements, and which bears traces of the bad reputation of toads in our popular culture.
In the second episode of These songs that make the news broadcast this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Alain Souchon, The Toads, 2011
Franco-German choir of Paris, The Toads, 1989
Charles Trenet, My philosophy, 1955
Second channel, Animals of the world, September 24, 1972
Francis Lemarque, Frog, 1956
Marc Jolivet, The Little Frog, 1993
Second channel, Animals of the world, September 24, 1972
Georges Brassens, Don Juan, 1976
Michel Vivoux, The Batrachians, 2018
Anne Leonard, Frog, 1982
Béatrice Arnac, The Frog of Narbonne, 1966
Alain Souchon, The Toads, 2011
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