I thought I would let you all in on this great event, happening in Quebec City this Thursday, July 16, for the Festival Off de Québec.
Call me Poupée will be performing, along with a 15 piece orchestra, songs from 1970s soft core Quebec movies, such as L’initiation, Valérie, Après ski, etc.
The event will also feature my better half Otis Fodder, as well as Satan Bélanger and Mingo of Les Georges Leningrad fame.
In 2007 I posted the Après Ski soundtrack, find it here.
À bientôt!
Bonjour!
It’s funny because since I started the Kiddie a Go-Go themed posts, this blog has been painfully unpopular, har har!
Well then…MOVING RIGHT ALONG…*is this thing on?*
Maybe this will shake things up: Kiki!
Kiki was a Belgian boy signed to Palette Records, the top Belgian label of the time.
Real name: Kiki Isaye, later to become the drummer for Belgian band Blue Rock. Photo here (please note: this info is taken from a thing called the interweb…MIGHT NOT BE ACTUAL FACT! What do you think?)
Kiki released a bunch of 45 singles, including one I’d love to get my dirty mittens on called “Vive les chansons yéyé”.
Here he is singing a fantastic song called “L’Agent secret”, in which Kiki tells us that what he reallys wants to be isn’t a yéyé singing star but a Secret Agent man! He would be so good at it that even James Bond would want him dead, he sings. This one is very much in the style of Nancy Sinatra’s “Last of the Secret Agents”.
And finally, another nice poppy yéyé track called “L’Affreux Jojo”, which has nothing to do with the Michel Polnareff song of the same name.
Bon baisers de Kiki!
So just the other day at work I was happily singing out loud “Un rayo de sol, woh-oh-oh! La la la la la, woh-oh-oh!” over and over, until my boss finally snapped and asked “What the HELL are you singing??”. I had no clue what to answer, even though I knew I was singing La Pendilla’s version of Un rayo de sol. What could I say? “Well, it’s this Spanish children’s album I have and uh….”. Oh no, trust me, I now know when to avoid the blank stares of complete incomprehension. So I just said “something to bring in the…uh…sun?” (since it’s been raining every day for a month here now anyway).
Last week I thought I should start posting more, and that’s when I decided I would start posting a new series of mp3s: kiddie a go-go! Before you cringe and decide to no longer visit this blog, ever, listen to La Pendilla’s “A-chi-li-pu”. It kind of kicks ass.
La Pendilla was the brainchild of Pepe Aguirre, and most of the band members were his children or nieces and nephews. The band was originally from Spain but was most popular in South America. I can’t say I know more about this cute bunch, so if anyone wants to chip in, please feel free.
Next week: Keith Green!
La Pendilla – A-chi-li-pu
La Pendilla – Canciones
La Pendilla – Un rayo de sol
Here is the complete A-Side of the soundtrack to a 1971 Québec movie called Après Ski, with music by Jacques Crevier & son ensemble. Most people would refer to this movie as “soft core”, but I don’t think it even came close to that. It was, to put it simply, a sex farce with very little content, like the British “Carry On” movies, maybe.
In those days the province of Québec had just gone through the Quiet Revolution and had finally broken itself free from the conservative and manipulative Catholic Church and from the Duplessis government. Sex, drugs, Catholic Church words used as swearing, etc., quickly became socially tolerated. That’s why so many movies like this one started popping up in the province in the late 60s and early 70s (“L’initiation”/”Valérie”, etc.), moreso than in the rest of Canada.
The B-Side of the soundtrack are pop songs by Quebec artists of the time. The movie starred Daniel Pilon (who later became an American soap opera star) and Céline Lomez. Even René Angelil had a small part.
I love how IMDB lists “Fingering” as the first keyword search for this movie.
This record somehow found its way into record collectors’ want lists, and is now worth a ridiculous sum of money because of it. I suggest you just download it here instead.
Le grand Marc
L’âme de feu
Le doux renard
Les yeux brûlants
La course endiablée
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