Tous les garçons et les filles

"Tous les garçons et les filles" (English: "All the Boys and Girls") is a song by the popular French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy, with Roger Samyn credited as co-writer on Hardy's original 1962 yé-yé-era recording. The song recounts the feelings of a young person who has never known love and her envy of the couples that surround her. Hardy's single, released internationally, was a massive hit in France, where it spent 15 non-consecutive weeks at number one (four separate runs) between late October 1962 and mid-April 1963.

For the album of the same name, see Tous les garçons et les filles (album).
Contact avec Françoise Hardy
The debut on 45 rpm (1st French edition)
EP by
Françoise Hardy
ReleasedJune 1962[1]
RecordedStudio Vogue, Villetaneuse, France
GenreChanson
Length9:12
LabelDisques Vogue
ProducerJacques Wolfsohn
"Tous les garçons et les filles"
B-side under paper sleeve[2]
Single by Françoise Hardy
from the album Françoise Hardy
A-side"J'suis d'accord"
Released1962
GenreFrench pop
Length5:05
LabelDisques Vogue
Songwriter(s)Françoise Hardy, Roger Samyn
Music video
"Tous les garçons et les filles" (French TV, 1964) on YouTube

Background

Hardy performed the song in a telecast on the evening of Sunday 28 October 1962 in a musical interlude during the results of the 1962 referendum to allow direct election of the president of the French Republic.[3] The record quickly became a success, selling 500,000 copies by the end of the year, and eventually selling more than 700,000 copies in France.[4] Additionally, it is quoted several times by the main characters in J.L. Carr's 1988 novel What Hetty Did.

Françoise Hardy also recorded the song in English ("Find Me a Boy", 1964), Italian ("Quelli della mia età", 1962; collected in Françoise Hardy canta per voi in italiano, 1963), and German ("Peter und Lou", 1963; collected in In Deutschland, 1965.)

Jimmy Page participated in the recording session as a session musician.[5]

EP track list
Side A
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Oh oh chéri" (original title "Uh Oh")Bobby Lee Trammell, ad. by Jil and Jan.[6]Bobby Lee Trammell2:20
2."Il est parti un jour"Françoise HardyFrançoise Hardy – Roger Samyn1:47
Side B
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."J’suis d’accord"Françoise HardyFrançoise Hardy – Roger Samyn2:00
2."Tous les garçons et les filles"Françoise HardyFrançoise Hardy – Roger Samyn3:05

SP track listing
Side A
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."J’suis d’accord"Françoise HardyFrançoise Hardy – Roger Samyn2:00
Side B
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Tous les garçons et les filles"Françoise HardyFrançoise Hardy – Roger Samyn3:05

Cover versions

The song has been covered by many artists in many languages, including:

  • Lill-Babs (in Swedish, "Vart Jag Än Går", 1963)
  • Sophie Blaede (1962)
  • Ginette Reno (1962)
  • Catherine Spaak (1962)
  • Aimable (on the accordion, 1963)
  • Steve Perry (in English, "Find Me a Girl", 1963)
  • Eny Mara (in Portuguese, "A Idade Do Amor", 1964)
  • Dulce Salles Cunha Braga (1965)
  • Mia Frye (in English, "All the Girls and Boys", 1984)
  • Eurythmics (bonus track on the album Be Yourself Tonight and, in some countries, B-side of the single "It's Alright - (Baby's Coming Back)"); sung in French by Annie Lennox
  • The Paquitas (accompanists of Xuxa) (in Portuguese, "Alguem para amar", 1991)
  • Janusz Laskowski (in Polish, "Och jak bardzo cię kocham", album Nigdy nie byłem w Casablance, 1994)
  • Laurent Voulzy and Carla Bruni singing with the Enfoirés (album Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra comique, 1995)
  • Marie Myriam (1996)
  • Gigliola Cinquetti ("Quelli della mia età", 1999)
  • Saint Etienne ("Find Me a Boy", album The Misadventures of Saint Etienne, music for the film Les Folies de Margaret (The Misadventures of Margaret), released in Japan in 1999)
  • The Dresden Dolls
  • Thanh Lan in French and Vietnamese
  • Zona Zul (album Beira, 2006)[7]
  • Cœur de pirate[8]
  • Elastic No-No Band (2007 live recording, released in 2012 compilation Not Like Most Folkies, Part 2: Early Covers)
  • Raymond & Maria - released in single Ingen vill veta var du köpt din tröja
  • Pomme (Live for Sourdoreille[9] in 2019)

Movie soundtracks

"Tous les garçons et les filles"

"Find Me a Boy"

-All These Sleepless Nights-

References
  1. 45 rpm presented on French television (RTF) on June 5th, 1962, few days before its setting on sale in the record stores
  2. In the Sixties the singles were not marketed in France. These discs were exclusively intended to the owners of bar and Café having a jukebox and for promotion near the media.
  3. Françoise Hardy, Le Désespoir des singes… et autres bagatelles, éd. Robert Laffont, Paris, 2008, p. 49.
  4. Bestsellers Les Meilleures Ventes Tout Temps de 45 T. / Singles, InfoDisc Archived 2008-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, accessed on line April 30, 2009.
  5. Christophe Le Pabic, Benoît Pascal, Led Zeppelin and related : hexagonal experiences, p. 60-61, 1997 ISBN 2-9512068-0-1, notice BnF No. 370660648
  6. Pseudonyms of Gilbert Guenet and Jean Setti, cousins of Jacques Wolfsohn; they wrote some successful songs for Johnny Hallyday.
  7. Partial source: site officiel de Françoise Hardy Archived 2007-05-23 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Video on YouTube
  9. Video on YouTube
  10. CD, The Misadventures of Saint Etienne, released only in Japan, 1999, it served as the soundtrack
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