Françoise Hardy - The Vogue Years

There is a scene in the film Broadcast News where Albert Brooks puts on a French record and starts singing along with it. I wondered where in America he would find out about a French song that he liked enough to learn all the words (it didn't occur to this homebody that he might have actually travelled to France but bear with me for a bit). I can tell you how I came across a French singer that I like (though I can't say that I sing along much). Françoise Hardy sang a song, Je Changerais d'avis, on an Ennio Morricone collection I have, Canto Morricone Vol. 1 (The 60's). That song really stuck in my head so a few years later I have purchased one of her collections, The Vogue Years (Vogue was the name of the first record company she signed with). The best way to describe the music here is "French Pop", if that means anything to you. Françoise was no flash-in-the-pan pretty face, though, as she wrote much of what she sang. Her very first single, Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles, sold two million copies in 1962. She has followed that with forty years of music, including Tout Ce Qu'on Dit from 1965. Beats the heck out of freedom fries.