This winter break, we explore love – all forms of love. On this day when we celebrate the birth of a child in a stable, we talk about loving your home – as long as you have a home.
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This house has disappeared. And you know the beginning of this song released by Nino Ferrer in 1972: “The house by the fountain / Covered with Virginia creeper / And cobwebs / Smelt of jam and disorder / And darkness / Autumn / Childhood / Eternity”.
Eternity ended one day and this house was destroyed which, at the time, could also be moving because, everywhere in France, houses near the fountain were razed, and fountains too, to build modern buildings. concrete, steel and glass. We almost forgot that the song had been regretting the houses in which we had grown up for a long time.
In this episode of These party songsyou hear
Nino Ferrer, The House near the fountain, 1972
Charles Trenet and Johnny Hess, Mom, don’t sell the house, 1935
Francoise Hardy, The house where I grew up, 1966
Ti Emile, Joseph my dear faithful, 1971
Bénabar, Four walls and a roof, 2006
Claude Nougaro, His home, 1971
Grand Corps Malade, The Apartment, 2007
Anne Sylvestre, Lonlère, 1967
Nino Ferrer, The House near the fountain, 1972
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