We are in the middle of pollen season, and France is sneezing and suffocating. Is the French song there too, allergic?
“Angry Golden Devils”, this Waltz of the pollens that Lionel Damei sings in 2005, says exactly where we are – for example, these days, we spoke to you about it this week on France Info: the dry air invaded by pollens and therefore many colds, affections of eyes and asthma attacks.
I’m sorry for the allergic – the song tends to laugh about it. This famous hay fever, as popular language says, is above all an excellent alibi for not offering bouquets of flowers, or for doing without certain supposedly shared pleasures, at Michel Fugain’s or at Eddy Mitchell’s.
In the second episode of These songs that make the news, airing this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Lionel Damei, The Waltz of Pollen, 2005
Michel Fugain & the Big Bazaar, Love song, 1975
Eddie Mitchell, I have all the plans, 1993
Francois Beranger, The Queen’s Jig, 1977
Tony Truant, The Queen’s Jig, 2008
Bourville, The bees, 1965
Pierre Barouh, Pollen, 1977
Jean-Pierre Ferland, The sun brings to the sun, 2000
Hubert-Felix Thiéfaine, Room 2023 (and dust), 2019
Leo Ferre, Of all the colors, 1982
Bear, Pollen, 2007
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