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		<description><![CDATA[*translated from French &#8211; Originally posted May 19, 2011 On July 8, 2009, I wrote about Bernard Chabert, a French musician of whom I knew little about, but whose music I thought deserved to be heard and shared. I praised his very British and Beatles influences, a rather rare sound for French artists at the [...]]]></description>
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<p>*translated from French &#8211; Originally posted May 19, 2011</p>
<p><em>On July 8, 2009, <a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/blog/2009/07/bernard-chabert/">I wrote about Bernard Chabert</a>, a French musician of whom I knew little about, but whose music I thought deserved to be heard and shared. I praised his very British and Beatles influences, a rather rare sound for French artists at the time. I wondered who was this Bernard Chabert, and why didn’t anybody – even the biggest French 60s pop nuts – know who he was? I also wondered why he had stopped releasing records after 4 amazing EPs that included two of the finest French psych singles of the time: “<strong><em>Helga Selzer</em></strong>” and “<strong>Une plage bordée de cocotiers</strong><em>.” Internet searches always pointed me to a certain “Bernard Chabbert”, journalist and pilot. I mistakenly assumed these were two separate people. </p>
<p>Nearly 2 years passed, until Bernard Chabert himself left a comment on my blog post (you can read it by clicking on the above link.) After exchanging a few emails with him, I asked if he wouldn’t mind doing an interview, to which he agreed. Below are excerpts from our email exchanges. </p>
<p>Many thanks to Bernard Chab(b)ert for his generosity and kindness in sharing these amazing memories.</em></p>
<p>***</p>
<p><img src="http://www.zoizoi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Chabert-215x300.jpg" alt="Chabert" title="Chabert" width="215" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-230" /></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;In 1968, I was training at an institute called OCORA – affiliated with the ORTF – a luxurious school/studio in Maison-Laffitte that trained radio/television journalists. There, I befriended a sound engineer called Patrice Blanc-Francard, who already enjoyed a bit of notoriety thanks to his unique style and rock and roll background.  I left the institute to start my career in journalism. Patrice got canned by the ORTF after May 1968 and was recruited by EMI as head of their rock and roll catalogue. He remembered that we used to play together during our lunch breaks in the OCORA studios and that I knew how to write songs, and so invited me to come to EMI-Pathé Marconi for an audition.  We recorded a few demos in a Pont-de-Sèvres studio. They were reviewed by a committee and soon enough I was offered a contract.</strong></p>
<p>I was assigned an artistic director, Jacques Sclingand, who worked with his two young assistants, Claude-Michel Schonberg and Michel Berger, and his musical advisor, the wonderful Hubert Rostaing, incidentally one of France’s greatest clarinet players (his version of Rhapsody in Blue remains famous.) </p>
<p>We all got to work, and released my first single, <strong>Tramway 7B</strong>:</p>
<p><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_Tramway7B.mp3">Tramway 7B</a></p>
<p>Tramway 7B entered the charts, so we quickly released a 2nd single: “<strong>Une plage bordée de cocotiers</strong><em>.” Semi-flop: the song was censored by the RTL, among others, because I sang about being bored sh***less (FR: “je m’emmerde”) on this beach, and in those days you couldn’t say these things. (I grew up in Madagascar and on Maurice Island, and I really *was* bored sh**less on these beaches. They were indeed beautiful, with white sand and palm trees, but deserted of any pretty girls or rock and roll…)</p>
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<p>“<strong>L’ascension sociale de Francis F.</strong></em>&#8221; was about climbing social ladders, a phenomenon that hadn’t yet reached the then very politically correct world of French show business, in spite of May 68.  Not even on a technical level: when I was in the studio listening to a track we’d just recorded, looking at the vu meters staying so far behind the red line, I&#8217;d protest. I wanted my songs to sound saturated and wanted the maximum possible amount of volume on that tape, not guitar plucking noises. In those days, sound engineers were knights of the ultra-clean take: as far as they were concerned, if a take sounded saturated, it was good for the dumps.</p>
<p><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_LascensionsocialedeFrancisF.mp3">L&#8217;ascension sociale de Francis F.</a></p>
<p>So as you can imagine when I recorded <strong>&#8220;Helga Selzer&#8221;</strong>(inspired by two girl friends: one was a star model for Chanel and sober, the other a childhood friend who was completely crazy. She even did a few triple X movies later on) and announced that I wanted part of the song to be sung through a telephone line, the sound engineers almost threw a fit. We worked it out in the end, but that’s the only track that has the guitar sound I wanted. (I played with a Rickenbacker that I borrowed from a shop in Bastille, because I couldn’t afford one of my own.) </p>
<p><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_OlgaSelzer.mp3">Helga Selzer</a></p>
<p>I wrote <strong>Dear Jean</strong> for Jean Seberg, whom I’d met through a mutual friend. She was a little weird and we spent some strange moments together.</p>
<p><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert%20_DearJean.mp3">Dear Jean </a></p>
<p><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert%20_IlpartenCalifornie.mp3">Il part en Californie</a></p>
<p>Between 69 and 72, I was making a living from my music and enjoyed some great moments, including a few days recording a Jean-Christophe Averty TV show with Led Zeppelin. We spent hours playing with them just to pass the time. There was also my friendship with Isabelle de Funès, who at the time sang songs by her friend Véronique Sanson, with whom we ate croissants in the morning.</p>
<p><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_EasyMissLizzy.mp3">Easy Miss Lizzy</a></p>
<p>But I started getting bored with Parisian show-biz, too bourgeois and void of any interest as far as I was concerned. I was a rock and roll guy and loved to play live, but I didn’t have a band, just mates. EMI wants to make money, not rock and roll. Around that time Apollo was sending space ships to the moon, and I dreamed of being a part of it. I’ve always been a pilot – runs in the family – and always wanted to be a journalist – also runs in the family, so I took advantage of my notoriety at Europe 1 thanks to my chart-topping singles and managed to get an interview with the editor in chief. I was hired, and in early 1972 I left show business and headed to Houston to report on Apollo 14. A new life began…”</p>
<p><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_MareSerenitatis.mp3">Mare Serenitatis</a></p>
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<p>***</p>
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		<title>Bernard Chabert &#8211; L&#8217;entrevue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 13:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[*The English version of this interview will be posted shortly. Stay tuned. (It&#8217;s just a lot to translate!)* Le 8 juillet 2009, je partageais sur ce blogue mes EPs de Bernard Chabert, un artiste que je ne connaissais pas, mais qui, selon moi, méritait une écoute attentive. Je louangeais ses sonorités beatlesques et britanniques, un [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Chabert-Selzer.jpg" class="thickbox no_icon" rel="gallery-628" title="Chabert-Selzer"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-226" title="Chabert-Selzer" src="http://www.zoizoi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Chabert-Selzer-200x200.jpg" alt="Chabert-Selzer" width="146" height="146" /></a><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Chabert-Lizzie.jpg" class="thickbox no_icon" rel="gallery-628" title="Chabert-Lizzie"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-225" title="Chabert-Lizzie" src="http://www.zoizoi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Chabert-Lizzie-200x200.jpg" alt="Chabert-Lizzie" width="146" height="146" /></a><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Chabert-Tramway7B.jpg" class="thickbox no_icon" rel="gallery-628" title="Chabert-Tramway7B"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-224" title="Chabert-Tramway7B" src="http://www.zoizoi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Chabert-Tramway7B-200x200.jpg" alt="Chabert-Tramway7B" width="146" height="146" /></a></p>
<p>*The English version of this interview will be posted shortly. Stay tuned. (It&#8217;s just a lot to translate!)*</p>
<p><em>Le 8 juillet 2009, <a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/blog/2009/07/bernard-chabert/">je partageais sur ce blogue</a> mes EPs de Bernard Chabert, un artiste que je ne connaissais pas, mais qui, selon moi, méritait une écoute attentive. Je louangeais ses sonorités beatlesques et britanniques, un son que peu d’artistes français abordaient à l’époque, du moins pas avec tant de finesse. Très honnêtement, ces maxis figurent parmi mes préférés de l’époque et je m’étais toujours demandé qui était ce Bernard Chabert, pourquoi était-il si méconnu? Pourquoi avait-il mis un frein à sa carrière de musicien, sûrement très prometteuse si l’on se fie à ces quelques enregistrements? Surtout à l&#8217;écoute de <strong>Helga Selzer</strong> et <strong>Une plage bordée de cocottiers</strong>, deux méga-bombes rock/psychés!  </p>
<p>Des recherches internet me pointaient toujours vers un certain Bernard Chabbert, journaliste et aviateur français, mais ma logique me disait que ce ne devait pas être la même personne. Erreur! </p>
<p>Après plusieurs mois, voire années, c’est la surprise : Bernard Chabert lui-même me laisse un commentaire, en réponse à mon billet (vous pouvez le lire en cliquant sur le lien plus haut). Bernard Chabert, musicien et Bernard Chabbert, journaliste / aviateur étaient bel et bien la même personne!  </p>
<p>Après quelques échanges de courriels, je lui proposai une entrevue. </p>
<p>M&#8217;sieur Chab(b)ert a été d’une générosité sans bornes dans le partage de ses souvenirs, qui sont pour le moins fascinants. Je lui envoie mes remerciements et le salue!</p>
<p>Voici avec grand plaisir son histoire, dans ses mots : </em></p>
<p>***</p>
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<p><strong>&#8220;En 68, je fais une période de training dans un institut nommé OCORA qui appartient alors à l&#8217;ORTF, et qui forme des journalistes et techniciens radio et télé dans un studio-école de grand luxe à Maisons-Laffitte. J&#8217;y rencontre un ingé-son, déjà célèbre de par son style et sa culture rock and rolleuse, Patrice Blanc-Francard, et on devient copains comme cul et chemise. Puis je pars faire le journaliste, et Patrice après Mai 68 se fait virer de l&#8217;ORTF et entre comme patron du catalogue rock and roll chez EMI France. Comme lorsque nous étions ensemble à l&#8217;OCORA on avait passé les pauses-déjeuner à faire de la musique dans l&#8217;un des studios équipés d&#8217;un piano, et qu&#8217;il savait que j&#8217;écrivais un peu, il me fait un jour convoquer chez EMI-Pathé Marconi pour une audition. J&#8217;y vais, on se met en studio au Pont de Sèvres, et on en sort un souple d&#8217;essai. Ça passe en comité, et ils me proposent un contrat.<br />
</strong><br />
Je signe, je me retrouve avec un directeur artistique (Jacques Sclingand) qui a dans son équipe deux jeunes assistants, Claude-Michel Schonberg et Michel Berger, et un conseiller musical, l&#8217;extraordinaire Hubert Rostaing, un des plus grands clarinettistes français (sa version de la Rhapsodie in Blue est restée célèbre).</p>
<p>Là-dessus, on se met au travail, et on sort le premier 45 tours EP, &#8220;<strong>Tramway 7B</strong>&#8221; :</p>
<p><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_Tramway7B.mp3">Tramway 7B</a></p>
<p>Le Tramway entre dans les charts, on enchaîne sur le second disque, un simple celui-là : &#8220;<strong>Une plage bordée de cocotiers</strong>&#8220;. Là, semi-bide: comme je dis sur ce titre que je m&#8217;emmerde sur cette plage, et qu&#8217;à l&#8217;époque on ne dit pas ces choses-là, le disque est boycotté entre autres sur RTL. (J&#8217;ai grandi à Madagascar et à l’île Maurice, et je me suis vraiment emmerdé sur ces plages magnifiques, sable blanc et cocotiers, mais désertes et sans trop de filles ni de rock and roll&#8230;). </p>
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<p>&#8220;<strong>L&#8217;ascension sociale de Francis F.</strong>&#8221; parlait justement de ça, d&#8217;ascension sociale, et malgré Mai 68, ça n&#8217;avait pas encore filtré jusqu&#8217;au show-biz alors politiquement très correct. Et même techniquement, lorsque je débarquais en cabine, regardais les vumètres alors qu&#8217;on rejouait la dernière prise, et que je constatais qu&#8217;entre les pointes de volume et le trait rouge il y avait de quoi glisser un piano à queue, je m&#8217;insurgeais: je voulais que ça sature, je voulais un maxi de son sur la bande, pas des plics-plics. Et ça allait contre la culture des ingénieurs du son d&#8217;alors, chevaliers de la prise ultrapropre pour qui si ça saturait, c&#8217;était à jeter&#8230;</p>
<p><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_LascensionsocialedeFrancisF.mp3">L&#8217;ascension sociale de Francis F.</a></p>
<p>Alors vous imaginez: quand j&#8217;ai enregistré &#8220;<strong>Helga Selzer</strong>&#8221; (inspirée par deux copines: l&#8217;une sobre comme un chameau, était mannequin vedette chez Chanel, l&#8217;autre, copine d&#8217;enfance, était totalement déjantée et est même ensuite partie tourner dans des triples X&#8230;), et que j&#8217;ai annoncé que je voulais chanter la voix dans un téléphone, ça a fait une quasi-révolte du côté des ingésons. Mais bon, on y est arrivé, et c&#8217;est le seul morceau où j&#8217;ai obtenu la couleur de guitare que je voulais (je jouais sur une Rickenbacker empruntée à un magasin de la Bastille, j&#8217;avais pas les moyens de m&#8217;en acheter une à moi). </p>
<p><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_OlgaSelzer.mp3">Helga Selzer</a></p>
<p>J&#8217;avais fait, pour l&#8217;anecdote, &#8220;<strong>Dear Jean</strong>&#8221; pour Jean Seberg que j&#8217;avais connu par un bon copain. Elle était étrange, et on avait passé quelques moments assez étranges ensemble&#8230; </p>
<p><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert%20_DearJean.mp3">Dear Jean</a></p>
<p><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert%20_IlpartenCalifornie.mp3">Il part en Californie</a></p>
<p>La musique m&#8217;a fait vivre entre 69 et début 72, donc, et j&#8217;y ai passé des moments géniaux. Par exemple, une paire de journées pour enregistrer une émission TV de Jean Christophe Averty avec Led Zep, avec qui nous avions passé des heures à jouer pour faire passer le temps&#8230; Ou une amitié avec Isabelle de Funés, qui alors chantait les compositions de sa copine Véronique Sanson, avec qui on mangeait un croissant le matin&#8230;</p>
<p><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_EasyMissLizzy.mp3">Easy Miss Lizzy</a></p>
<p>Seulement voilà, pour ma part je m&#8217;emmerde un peu dans le monde d&#8217;un show-biz parisien où il ne se passe pas grand&#8217;chose de mon point de vue. Je viens du rock and roll, j&#8217;aime jouer en live, mais je n&#8217;ai pas de groupe, juste des potes, et la politique d&#8217;EMI est de faire du commerce, pas du rock and roll. </p>
<p>Comme à cette époque se déroulent les missions Apollo vers la Lune, et que ça me fait complètement rêver (j&#8217;ai toujours piloté, c&#8217;est de famille, et j&#8217;ai toujours voulu être reporter, c&#8217;est aussi de famille), je finis par laisser tomber le show-biz un peu trop embourgeoisé, et me servant de la notoriété acquise chez Europe No. 1 grâce aux disques dans leurs charts, je rencontre le boss de la rédaction et je me fais embaucher.</p>
<p>Direction Houston, pour couvrir Apollo 14, début 72, et je n&#8217;en sortirai plus&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_MareSerenitatis.mp3">Mare Serenitatis</a></p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://surlezinc.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/chabbert_opt_1.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="380" height="355" /></p>
<p>***</p>
<p><em>En terminant, je vous invite à jeter un coup d&#8217;oeil à l&#8217;émission &#8220;Pégase&#8221; de Bernard Chabbert, un magazine sur l&#8217;aviation et l&#8217;astronautique :</em></p>
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		<title>Sylvie-Anne</title>
		<link>http://www.zoizoi.com/blog/2009/09/sylvie-anne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed these last few months that popular search items for my blog were &#8220;60&#8242;s French pop&#8221; and &#8220;Girls in the Garage&#8221;. Well, I thought I would make everyone&#8217;s life easier. Here is an artist that appeared on volume 10 of the GITG series, volume 10 being an all French volume. If you have this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve noticed these last few months that popular search items for my blog were &#8220;60&#8242;s French pop&#8221; and &#8220;Girls in the Garage&#8221;. Well, I thought I would make everyone&#8217;s life easier. </p>
<p><img src="http://www.zoizoi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/1244134607-300x289.jpg" alt="1244134607" title="1244134607" width="300" height="289" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-302" /></p>
<p>Here is an artist that appeared on volume 10 of the GITG series, volume 10 being an all French volume. If you have this particular volume, perhaps you noticed the amazing cover artwork featuring two girls cat fighting over a Jacques Dutronc LP? It was drawn by the same talented woman who did the caricature that you see at the top of the page on this blog. Her name is Sophie Cossette, she lives in Toronto, and she&#8217;s amazingly talented. When I was doing the Zoï Zoï French pop DJ nights in Toronto (hence the name of this website) in 2005-2007, Sophie generously drew all the posters for us, and featured a different French pop icon every month. </p>
<p>The Sylvie-Anne track on GITG 10 was taken from the same 45 single I&#8217;m offering you today. I apologize in advance, as my record is very scratched. In fact, this track almost didn&#8217;t make the cut, because of its condition.</p>
<p>The &#8220;<a  href="http://www.retrojeunesse60.com/sylvie.anne.html">Retro Jeunesse</a>&#8221; website (follow the link to see a photo of her!) says this about her: Sylvie-Anne was born Sylvie-Anne Trudeau, in 1951. She was given the nickname of &#8220;Mademoiselle Dynamite&#8221;, because her voice and style was similar to another energetic Quebec singing star: Jenny Rock. </p>
<p>This was her first of two singles, and she was accompanied by legendary Quebec musician, <a  href="http://psyquebelique.blogspot.com/search?q=Georges+Tremblay">Georges Tremblay</a>. </p>
<p>Interestingly enough, the two songs on this single are blatant copies of the Hazlewood produced and Billy Strange arranged Nancy Sinatra covers of &#8220;Day Tripper&#8221; and &#8220;Lies&#8221;. In a nutshell, they are covers of covers. And they are great! </p>
<p>If you listen closely (and I mean *very* closely!) to the first seconds of &#8220;Un tour dehors&#8221;, you can (faintly) hear her clear her throat. </p>
<p>One wonders where she is today and what became of her.</p>
<p>So here&#8217;s Mademoiselle Dynamite doing the Beatles&#8217; &#8220;Day Tripper&#8221; in French (check out GITG 10 for a clearer copy though, oops!) and its B-side, her cover of &#8220;Lies&#8221;, both done à la Sinatra/Hazelwood.<br />
<del datetime="2010-02-02T01:56:09+00:00"><br />
<a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/Sylvie-Anne_Un_tours_dehors_Day_Tripper.mp3">Sylvie-Anne &#8211; Un tour dehors (Day Tripper)</a><br />
<a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/Sylvie-Anne_Reste_Lies.mp3">Sylvie-Anne &#8211; Reste (Lies)</a></del></p>
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		<title>Bernard Chabert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to say&#8230;it&#8217;s quite unnerving to write about an artist you don&#8217;t know much about, but when you search what&#8217;s out there on Bernard Chabert, there really seems to be a sea of non-information. Or maybe I&#8217;m just not looking in the right places. Regardless, Bernard Chabert is someone I am completely fascinated by. [...]]]></description>
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<p>I have to say&#8230;it&#8217;s quite unnerving to write about an artist you don&#8217;t know much about, but when you search what&#8217;s out there on Bernard Chabert, there really seems to be a sea of non-information. Or maybe I&#8217;m just not looking in the right places. </p>
<p>Regardless, Bernard Chabert is someone I am completely fascinated by. Chabert himself also appeared to be completely under the spell of The Beatles  &#8211; who wasn&#8217;t? &#8211; and their distinct sound seemed to easily melt into French pop gems, under Chabert&#8217;s masterful direction. I&#8217;m absolutely certain that if Chabert had kept up at it, he&#8217;d be right up there with Polnareff as one of the greats. Heck, I&#8217;m almost to a point of giving him that winning title anyway. </p>
<p><img src="http://www.zoizoi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Chabert-215x300.jpg" alt="Chabert" title="Chabert" width="215" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-230" /></p>
<p>Chabert also seemed to think he was all that&#8230;take a look at the cover of his most coveted single (unfortunately not available in this post, due to the fact that I don&#8217;t have the ridiculous amount of money it would cost to acquire it):</p>
<p><img src="http://www.zoizoi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/772263.jpg" alt="772263" title="772263" width="280" height="279" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-231" /></p>
<p>&#8220;Those who don&#8217;t believe in Chabert, are the same people who, in seventeen hundred and some peanuts, didn&#8217;t believe in WOLFGANG A. MOZART. So there&#8221; says the cover.  </p>
<p><em>Oh dear</em>.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong: I kinda think Chabert is all that too, and quite frankly I&#8217;ll admire anyone who is willing to write *that* on a record cover.  </p>
<p>Anyhoo, back to the three records featured on this post. </p>
<p>If you have my friend Satan Bélanger&#8217;s fantastic <a  href="http://www.freakouttotal.com/" class="broken_link">Freakout Total</a>* comp, then you already have one of his songs:<em> Olga Selzer</em> (spelled <em>Helga Selzer</em> on the cover, but <em>Olga</em> on the original record). By far, this is one of his best, and one of THEE most underrated French rock tunes of the late 60s. Again, I&#8217;m always baffled as to why Chabert was not a superstar in his own right. The B-side was a cover of Hot Leg&#8217;s (ie 10CC&#8217;s) <em>Neanderthal Man</em>. Both these songs feature French prog band Triangle. </p>
<p>All these songs are just brilliant. Even that <em>Dear Prudence</em> sort of rip off (<em>Dear Jean</em>). My personal faves are <em>L&#8217;Ascension sociale de Francis F</em> and<em> Il part en Californie</em>. </p>
<p><del datetime="2010-02-02T01:59:16+00:00"><a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_OlgaSelzer.mp3">Bernard Chabert &#8211; Olga Selzer</a><br />
<a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_Lhommedelunivers.mp3">Bernard Chabert &#8211; L&#8217;homme de l&#8217;univers (Neanderthal Man)</a><br />
<a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_EasyMissLizzy.mp3">Bernard Chabert &#8211; Easy Miss Lizzy</a><br />
<a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_MareSerenitatis.mp3">Bernard Chabert &#8211; Mare Serenitatis</a><br />
<a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_Tramway7B.mp3">Bernard Chabert &#8211; Tramway 7B</a><br />
<a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_DearJean.mp3">Bernard Chabert &#8211; Dear Jean</a><br />
<a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_IlpartenCalifornie.mp3">Bernard Chabert &#8211; Il part en Californie</a><br />
<a  href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/BernardChabert_LascensionsocialedeFrancisF.mp3">Bernard Chabert &#8211; L&#8217;Ascension sociale de Francis F</a></del></p>
<p>* available through Mucho Gusto Records: <a  href="http://www.muchogustorecords.com/">http://www.muchogustorecords.com/</a></p>
<p>You can click on each of the three cover shots for a closer look.</p>
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		<title>Renée Martel sings The Beatles</title>
		<link>http://www.zoizoi.com/blog/2007/06/renee-martel-sings-the-beatles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s someone I love dearly: Renée Martel. Daughter of Québec country star Marcel Martel, she has enjoyed a very respectable career in the 60s as a pop singer, doing quality covers in French of British or American hits, one of my faves being her beautiful cover of &#8220;Liverpool&#8221; (which was a hit for her in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a  onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_J2-_lhLHFMo/Rnyu5uBuluI/AAAAAAAAADI/qqrPTfz-iRQ/s1600-h/ren%C3%A9e+martel.jpg" class="thickbox no_icon" rel="gallery-27" title=""><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_J2-_lhLHFMo/Rnyu5uBuluI/AAAAAAAAADI/qqrPTfz-iRQ/s320/ren%C3%A9e+martel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079126786398131938" border="0" /></a><br />Here&#8217;s someone I love dearly: Renée Martel. Daughter of Québec country star <a  href="http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&#038;Params=U1ARTU0002220">Marcel Martel</a>, she has enjoyed a very respectable career in the 60s as a pop singer, doing quality covers in French of British or American hits, one of my faves being her beautiful cover of &#8220;Liverpool&#8221; (which was a hit for her in her home province.)</p>
<p>Unlike many other 60s singers trying to keep up with the times, she didn&#8217;t fall into the disco craze in the 70s, but rather followed in her father&#8217;s footsteps and her first love, country music.</p>
<p>This next track is quite possibly my favorite one. You will recognize the familiar Beatles melody, of course, but as much as I love it, my heart always sinks when I hear it, because the quality of the mix is just so bad, not to mention the pressing makes the whole record sound like a whisper. What should have been a grandiose sounding album was ruined, and whoever is responsible for this will die in &#8220;bad music engineer&#8221; hell!</p>
<p>Phew! Ok. And now, thanks to digital technology, I managed to crank it up a notch (just a little) so we can at least hear that Wurlitzer Electric Piano (same type used by <a  href="http://www.ready-steady-go.org.uk/remains.htm">Barry &amp; The Remains</a>.). Good Lord at least I <span style="font-style: italic;">think</span> that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s called.<a  onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.minfrance.com/canada/minf005/images/sleeve1.jpg" class="thickbox no_icon" rel="gallery-27" title=""><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 169px;" src="http://www.minfrance.com/canada/minf005/images/sleeve1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>In any case, that&#8217;s the best I could do.</p>
<p>French lyrics are by Karo! &#8211;></p>
<p>Renée Martel has suffered two car accidents in the last decade and has rarely appeared publicly since her father&#8217;s death in 1999. I hope she&#8217;ll come out to play more often.</p>
<p><del datetime="2010-02-02T02:16:01+00:00"><a href="http://www.zoizoi.com/mp3/ReneeMartel-Uncertainsoir.mp3">Renée Martel &#8211; Un certain soir</</del>a></p>
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