“As long as my hair curls and my belly doesn’t crease”. It is one of the greatest successes of the singer and actress Parisys, a blonde with curly hair, who turned many heads in the 1930s.
And it could be a prophylactic anthem since a study, published in the medical press last week, reveals that women who use hair straightening chemicals more than four times a year have a double risk of developing uterine cancer than others.
And when Parisys sings “As long as my hair curls and my belly doesn’t crease”France knows a fashion – or at least a valuation – of curly hair, as evidenced by this great absolute classic by Maurice Chevalier.
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Parisys, As long as my hair curls1931
Maurice Chevalier, Valentine1925
Pills and Tabet, Why did you dye yourself Philaminte1933
Jill Caplan, My short hair2004
Alain Souchon, We bring back our hair2019
Heat, Your hair2012
Booba, I remember2006
Tunisian, If we told each other everything2013
Eric Cossack, Jan Pol Rabal Koto1992
Parisys, As long as my hair curls1931
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