[Spectropop] Jacqueline Taieb

[Dave Monroe]

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Date:	Mon, 3 Jan 2005 04:09:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	"Dave Monroe" <monropolitan at yahoo.com>  Add to
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Subject:	Re: [Spectropop] Jacqueline Taieb
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--- Lyn Nuttall <email50 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> I just acquired a gloriously screwy song by
> Jacqueline Taieb called "7 heures du matin" (1967),
> a sort of languid French rap over a groovy beat 
> in which she lapses now and then into snatches of
> Anglo pop such as "talking 'bout my g-g-generation"
> and "wop-bob-a-loo-bop..."  My French isn't up to
> making much sense of it, apart from the title ("7
> o'clock in the morning"), but I love it.  Her page
> at The Yé Yé Girls website makes one yearn for more,
> and apparently she has been anthologised outside of
> France. Any other enthusiasts here?

If there's one track I've abused in my (so far) short
record-spinning, er, "career,' it's "7 heures du
matin."  Not that anyone's complained, but ... but
there IS an English version, "7 a .m.," comped on
Girls in the Garage Vol. 3 (LP).  The, I don't know
what you'd call it, vocal-to-instrumental track ratio
there is a bit off, however, like a bad dub job.

There's a JT CD comp called The Complete Masterworks
of the French Mademoiselle (a.k.a. Lolita Chick '68)
that's worth picking up (which as i recall also
includes the English version of "7hdm"), and various
tracks are scattered about as detailed on that "Ye-Ye
Girls" page.  But "7hdm" is the best of 'em.  

By the way, on vinyl, the 45 and/or EP can go for
pretty good money (I consider myself lucky to have
brought it in for less than $100), but a vintage
pressing it can be had at a reasonable rate on the
Jeunesse, Amour et Fantasie LP (there's also a nice
Sylvie Vartan pop track on there).  And it's on both
the Pop a Paris and the Atomic Cafe: French Cuts comps.


		
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