I must have been eight or nine when I first heard this recording, by the artist who wrote the song, listening to Radio Luxembourg 208 under the bed clothes via a tiny earpiece. I misheard the singers name as Francoise Arby and it wasn't until I was a teenager that I discovered her real identity. Of course I now own all her albums and some fifteen years ago actually wrote a story about a teenager who travels to Paris in the hope of meeting her, it was one of my first posts on this blog back in July 2003.
Anyway I've just discovered this video from 1965 and it harks back to a time when traffic flowed from Piccadilly Circus eastwards along Coventry Street and into Leicester Square, that's all the properties coloured yellow on the original version of Monopoly if you're interested. A time when you could sit on the back of a lorry on top of a giant duvet cover and nobody would bat an eyelid.
As well as still being one of my favourite all time songs it is also the only example I know of somebody making the word 'under' sound sexy - it comes at 2:08 if you want to check it out.
3 comments:
OMG Radio Luxembourg under the covers! That takes me back. There must a whole generation of people who did that.
I see what you mean about the word "under". Is it me or are there quite a number of French women who have a certain "Je ne sais quoi"?
Hi Shy - kids of today just wouldn't understand why we listened to the radio like that!
Agree about certain French women, it's just intangible isn't it?
I know it's sounds stupid but "je ne sais quoi" could've been invented for certain French women. I mean, "Ich wisse nicht wass" just doesn't work, does it?
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