I love France, and I've been there a few times - including once on one of those coach tours (because I was a bit scared to go abroad on my own). Everyone was loads older than me but it was lots of fun!
1 Ca Plane Pour Moi. Bet you didn't know Richard Thompson had recorded this. Well, he has.
2 Madame Soustaine - Richard and Linda Thompson. Et toi!
3 Encore du Vin, by the Cock and Bull Band. An instrumental, so (apart from the title) how do you know it's French? Why, because of the Frenchman playing the French bagpipes.
4 Milord, by Edith Piaf. I thought this was my favourite Piaf, until I was reminded of...
5 Les Trois Cloches, by Edith Piaf with Les Compagnons de la Chanson. When I was a kid my parents had an album of 78s which they played on the gramophone. This was my favourite.
6 Les Trois Beaux Oiseaux de Paradis, by Linda Thompson. To remind you that Linda can speak French too.
7 Le Galant Indiscret, by Malicorne. C'est Gabriel's missus Marie qui chant.
8 Baton Rouge/True Millennium Flood, by Kevin Russell. OK, should've put this in last week for Towns, but hey, Baton Rouge, that's French, right? Plus, I was at this exact concert. (But that's not me you can hear talking, cos I don't talk while the great Kev 'Shinyribs' Russell is singing.)
9 Complainte Pour Ste-Catherine, by Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Because we have Canadians among us.
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